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Location

Stockholm


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Building and flying multicopters, hacking ArduCopter.


Hometown:

Skellefteå


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John Stäck replied to Zafer Turkeli's discussion Y4 Tricopter setup??
"What version of the Ardupilot code are you using? I haven't looked at the newer ones (still running with an old one since it works for what I do), it might be that patch doesn't work anymore. Does it compile cleanly without the patch?"
Feb 18, 2015
John Stäck replied to Zafer Turkeli's discussion Y4 Tricopter setup??
"It was so long ago I fiddled with the code that I am not entirely sure of what I was actually flew with (I set it up and left it alone and just flew it).
I did get rid of the forward-pitch tendency by just trimming it, I remember lowering the back a…"
Aug 11, 2014
John Stäck replied to Zafer Turkeli's discussion Y4 Tricopter setup??
"I had an ESC glitch mid-flight (bad connection somewhere), had nothing to do with the APM. Lost power to the front-right motor, made a roll and inverted dive into terrain."
Aug 5, 2014
John Stäck replied to Zafer Turkeli's discussion Y4 Tricopter setup??
"I flew it earlier this summer, but crashed it and broke the frame and have not had time to rebuild it. Haven't looked at the newer source code (like 3.1), but the patch is pretty simple and should be easy enough to rewrite for it."
Aug 5, 2014
John Stäck replied to Ruwan's discussion Share your drone info thread
"frame: Styrofoam rings, 170mm diameter (inner diameter 130mm). Some wood pieces (4x8mm I think)controller/autopilot: Crius AIOP2, MegaPirateNGesc: Turnigy Plush 12Amotors: HK 2725-1600propellers: 5x4.5motor to motor distance: 170mmbattery: Zippy…"
Mar 25, 2013
John Stäck replied to Ruwan's discussion Share your drone info thread
"frame: 10x20mm wood (pine), 2mm plywoodcontroller/autopilot: APM2.5, ArduCopter 2.9.1esc: RCTimer 20Amotors: RCTimer 2217-800propellers: 10x4.7motor to motor distance: 55cmbattery: 1800mAh 3S 20C (RCTimer)total weight: 1100gflying time: 10 minradio:…"
Mar 25, 2013
John Stäck replied to Zafer Turkeli's discussion Y4 Tricopter setup??
"I hacked together a quick patch (against the current master branch), it is just a Y6 frame with two motors removed. It at least compiles, but I have no idea if it flies... I don't know if it requires some compensation for the fact that there are two…"
Feb 28, 2013