Gender
Male
About
Location
San Francisco, CA
About Me:
About one year into this hobby. Done the Bixler/Skywalker thing, now I'm venturing out.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Right now I'm all beer drone. In the past we had a team fly APM/FPV over burning man.
Hometown:
San Francisco
Activity Feed
"Today's NYPost cover is grotesque. Green annotation text is mine. Amazed they didn't call it a drone."
This picture is a frame from a prior FPV flight conducted (safely) by the victim.http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/09/05/remote-control-helicopte... 19-year-old model helicopter enthusiast was killed Thursday when a toy…
"Ilya - Love the I term idea. I'll experiment with that. Certainly it should help with COG and throttle, but I'm guessing it might not help with wobbles.
earthpatrol & John - The parachute deployment has been really successful actually! 10 releases,…"
earthpatrol & John - The parachute deployment has been really successful actually! 10 releases,…"
I'm attempting to build a 9kg hex that can drop 6 beers on parachutes to people floating between houseboats on a lake. I need your ideas: How can I adjust the tuning parameters in-flight to account for the loss of 6 x 400g beers, which is 25% of…
"(2013-05-28 update)
I found this place to have the best selection and prices:
http://www.trimcraftaviationrc.com/
I then filled in the gaps in stock from this place which is slightly more but has similar selection:
http://rtlfasteners.com/"
I found this place to have the best selection and prices:
http://www.trimcraftaviationrc.com/
I then filled in the gaps in stock from this place which is slightly more but has similar selection:
http://rtlfasteners.com/"
"Great idea. What do you think about a generic inline 1-2A resettable circuit breaker? Solder it between XT60s or your power adapter of choice... Could work with any battery or wall supply, so you could easily take it to the field too. If it has a…"
"It's a really big improvement, and I can tell you guys will be able to iterate quickly. Congrats!"
"Hi Markus - I too had an unusually hard time figuring that out. I made this annotated excerpt from the Eagle files for APM 2.5."
"Hi Veikko. Thanks - I like that. Some of the other parachute systems I've seen before used similar releases, but I really wanted to try a faster method. I don't know if I'll get there, but wouldn't it be great if you could fly with more confidence…"
At Maker Faire, Chris said auto-land is a hard problem. While I don't have much to contribute to that yet, I did want to try deploying a ballistic parachute mid-air to bring a plane down. A few others have
shared successful parachute systems…
"You flew right over my house near Bernal :)"
(Original 4/20/12; Edited 3/16/13 to reflect a working configuration) tl;dr -Running Mission Planner via a Windows VM on Mac VMWare may report verification failures when loading firmware.The comments on this discussion were helpful.About a year…
"Was it hard to fly in "formation" with the wingsuit guys?"
"Nice! I always assumed Crissy would be too windy, but it looks like you caught it during a perfect calm morning.
I've been flying at the huge open fields at Candlestick over the water."
I've been flying at the huge open fields at Candlestick over the water."
"This is my favorite (Maldives is my second favorite). I watch these and just think: we all need to work on our artistry, holding interest, music (and sync) in our FPV vids."
"While becoming a private pilot, I was always surprised by the realities of see-and-avoid in non-towered airspace. Traffic is really hard to see, things happen fast, and the largest source of safety is simply the statistics of the situation.
My…"
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