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Christchurch


About Me:

Live in New Zealand.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Love the concept of building my own UAV and enjoy tinkering


Hometown:

Christchurch


Activity Feed

Ian Wallace replied to Bill B's discussion Battery Voltage Monitor ArduPlane 2.7.3
"Interested in any replies - I have the same problem, same setup.

Cheers,
Ian"
May 31, 2013
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hi Gabor,
I wrote a while back about the chances of adding an 'aeronautical units' setting to the CT, with distance in meters, height in feet and speed in knots - not sure if you have given this any more thought or if there is even room left on the…"
Jan 31, 2013
Ian Wallace posted a discussion
Hi,If I add a loiter_time command via the MP 1.2.27, write it to the APM, then read it, any time (in seconds) up to 255 is accepted by the APM2.5... at 256 (hmm, suspect number? :) ), the loiter_time is set to 0, at 257 it resets to 1, etc.Cheers,Ian
Dec 23, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hi guys,
Just thought I'd update with my issue here, in case anyone ever has a similar problem(s): http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/adding-extra-functions-to-minimos...
My camera failed completely a couple of days after I posted the problems I had…"
Dec 2, 2012
Ian Wallace posted a discussion
Hi,Just a quick question or two please... does the latest Minimosd board contain a thermal cut-out please?Does it require a signal from the video camera to operate?I am having a lot of issues with my overlay coming and going, am trying to work out…
Nov 25, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Ok, I am really at a loss to explain this... after uploading your R442 I received the full OSD extra experience on a couple of reboots but today, nothing! Just a screen showing the camera display, but no osd info. I do see the booting image (2.1…"
Nov 21, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hi again,
Just a couple of quick questions - I get the warnings Battery Low and RSSI Low... have set up my battery in MP (2200 size and 1-3 cell) but OSD shows only 10.8V consistently and 0% RSSI.
I've searched through this thread, but can't find a…"
Nov 21, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Just to add some more info for the topics I've started above, the problems seem to have started when I uploaded a hex I compiled myself using Arduino... then, blank screens when OSD is plugged into both the OSD Config tool and APM using the hex…"
Nov 19, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hi,
Just to add to the mystery - I loaded up the new 2.1 which I compiled myself... this now seems to load pretty stable each time when connected to FTDI cable and gets to the piont where it says 'Waiting for ... heartbeats'. However, when I plug…"
Nov 18, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hi guys,
I am having an issue with my MinimOSD... I seem to be able to successfully update the charset and firmware ok, I have reverted back to 2.0.
When I plug in the OSD, I see the splashscreen (V.2.0) and booting graphics, but after booting, the…"
Nov 18, 2012
Ian Wallace replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hi Gabor,
Your work on the MininmOSD is fantastic, I've just read through most of this thread. One thing I am trying to display on my OSD is the standard (Western anyway) aviation units of Knots for speed, Meters for distance and Feet for altitude.…"
Nov 7, 2012