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OP Dev


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I like them, they are fun


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James Cotton commented on Dave Giles's blog post OFM Hyper 330 FPV Pod Racing Quadcopter with DMT (Dynamic Motor Tilting)
"I did something similar with a tricopter a while back: http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/2013/04/triblivion-and-sparky.html it was quite a lot of fun. Nice work!"
Apr 7, 2015
James Cotton commented on James Cotton's blog post BrushedSparky v0.2
"It will be!"
Mar 26, 2015
James Cotton posted a blog post
This is an update on the BrushedSparky that I posted about a month ago.I got version 0.2 back.  There are a number of improvements over the previous revision.A bigger motor mount hole allows for stronger mounts.Using a 1.2 mm PCB shaves a bit of…
Mar 25, 2015
James Cotton commented on James Cotton's blog post BrushedSparky - TauLabs integrated frame FPV brushed microquadcopter
"Hehe. I'm almost done with the next revision to keep moving that way."
Mar 1, 2015
James Cotton posted a blog post
 OsoGrande got me into brushed microquadcopters recently. Sparky2 has some buffered outputs so at first I was just slapping it on frames and jury rigging things together. Very quickly, I wanted something more elegant.I also wanted to make it easier…
Feb 28, 2015
James Cotton posted a blog post
I thought you guys might find this interesting. Support for OneShot ESCs was recently written for Tau Labs (http://taulabs.org) and it seems like most of the claims that it is good are largely subjective (which is perfectly fine). However, I wanted…
Feb 1, 2015
James Cotton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gumstix releases new APM/PX4-based Linux autopilot board
"@Alejandro Forgot to mention when it is connected via SPI instead of serial keep in mind now you have extremely high bandwidth access to the FC which is really useful. Also I think a model where you keep the main MCU based flight controller that…"
Jan 2, 2015
James Cotton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gumstix releases new APM/PX4-based Linux autopilot board
"I made something like this a few years back: http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/2012/11/assembly-and-first-flight... . It has been extremely useful for some projects to have the linux computer on board (mainly for development tasks), although I can't…"
Jan 2, 2015
James Cotton commented on BrainFPV's blog post Brain FPV Flight Controller - Tau Labs - Full Graphic OSD - Made in USA - 36x36mm
"The code has always and still is open source. "
Dec 21, 2014
James Cotton commented on BrainFPV's blog post Brain FPV Flight Controller - Tau Labs - Full Graphic OSD - Made in USA - 36x36mm
"I made a few notes from my first impressions playing with the OSD and installing it into my MHQ. Now I really need to go practice my FPV.

http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/2014/12/brainfpv-cool-new-board-u..."
Dec 20, 2014
James Cotton commented on BrainFPV's blog post Brain FPV Flight Controller - Tau Labs - Full Graphic OSD - Made in USA - 36x36mm
"Very nice work, and great to see the OSD code finally being cleaned up and put to use! It's exciting to see more targets using the Tau Labs codebase."
Dec 20, 2014
James Cotton replied to Arshish Maneckji's discussion OUCH! - 4 Inch cut in Forearm with Stitches: Stupid Pilot Mistake or Bug??
"Checklists will only get you so far. There WILL be bugs or edge cases that aren't properly covered. If you are trying to fly autonomously with a PDOP of 7 there is no point in even attempting it! The software should simply realize this is an…"
Jul 7, 2014
James Cotton commented on Ian Lyons's blog post APM at the heart of the World First...
"amazing"
Jun 5, 2014
James Cotton commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post An open letter to Paul from witespy
"Tridge, very well written commentary on this OTP/DRM issue. Good luck working from within to find a more open spirited solution than DRM , but as you said it is the developer's choice and others choice to fork."
Apr 30, 2014
James Cotton commented on Nicholas Witham's blog post Game of Clones...........
"@hotel I agree the license wording is what matters. Given we aren't lawyers, I was simply pointing out some articles and a FAQ by the GNU about what they claim their license means. Given that the DRM and "tivoivation" aspects of GPLv3 were a heavily…"
Apr 29, 2014
James Cotton commented on Nicholas Witham's blog post Game of Clones...........
"I'm not a lawyer so I'm just going off what I can find.
Regarding the first section "When you convey a covered work", if you read that article I linked, they discuss the it was to negate things like the DMCA if you hack the protection. It doesn't…"
Apr 29, 2014
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