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About Me:
Retired Married with two children, boy and girl. Main interests - playing chess (badly), photography and now building copters
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Currently putting together a quad
Hometown:
Stoke on Trent
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"Ahh I'd forgotten, good to see you using it.
Thanks for the range info."
Thanks for the range info."
"Very illuminating, especially the turbo!! Looking forward to the geeky part.
What sort of range do you expect to achieve with the external aerial on the ESP?"
What sort of range do you expect to achieve with the external aerial on the ESP?"
"I like the headlamp comparison. Certainly bright - good for finding lost hens!"
"Thanks for sharing. I like the use of the copper garden labels. What temp did you set your soldering iron at?
Good luck with the endurance test."
Good luck with the endurance test."
"I also have problems in this area. Yesterday I did the normal compass dance and was quite pleased with offsets at -11, 2, -35. Flew my quad and put the log through Mission Planner's Auto Analysis with the result Compass = good mag_field within…"
"Rob, Hugues, Nick
Thank you for the info. I'm interpreting what's been written as, may or may not work out of the box on 1st October. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't be long before it does. Good luck with the porting, hope it goes smoothly."
Thank you for the info. I'm interpreting what's been written as, may or may not work out of the box on 1st October. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't be long before it does. Good luck with the porting, hope it goes smoothly."
"Looks great.
Just one question. Looking at the time frame between release and Ardupilot working on your Pixracer, will your AUAV 2.1 flight controller work out of the box with Ardupilot?"
Just one question. Looking at the time frame between release and Ardupilot working on your Pixracer, will your AUAV 2.1 flight controller work out of the box with Ardupilot?"
"Thanks Patrick that's very useful."
"Patrick
That shielding is impressive! Is it very effective and do you know the approx weight?"
That shielding is impressive! Is it very effective and do you know the approx weight?"
"Managed to get the Sony QX1 working with:
souphttpsrc location=http://192.168.122.1:8080/liveview/liveviewstream.JPG?%211234%21http%2dget%3a%2a%3aimage%2fjpeg%3a%2a%21%21%21%21%21 ! jpegdec
The difference between the QX1 and QX100 is the IP, 8080 &…"
souphttpsrc location=http://192.168.122.1:8080/liveview/liveviewstream.JPG?%211234%21http%2dget%3a%2a%3aimage%2fjpeg%3a%2a%21%21%21%21%21 ! jpegdec
The difference between the QX1 and QX100 is the IP, 8080 &…"
"@Glenn Gregory
On my phone (Sony Aqua M4) I found it easier to enter and amend input errors to the pipeline in portrait mode. The pop up scroll button was hidden by the virtual keyboard in landscape orientation.
The Sony QX100 also works with…"
On my phone (Sony Aqua M4) I found it easier to enter and amend input errors to the pipeline in portrait mode. The pop up scroll button was hidden by the virtual keyboard in landscape orientation.
The Sony QX100 also works with…"
"@Patrick
This is great, thanks for sharing. Really looking forward to part 2 and getting longer range for my Sony QX."
This is great, thanks for sharing. Really looking forward to part 2 and getting longer range for my Sony QX."
"Hi Glenn Gregory Tower now working on Nexus 7, connected Pi to Tower via Alfa & Nano M5, no video, ran okay for 30 minutes. Pi camera light on for full 30 minutesSorted video problem. Streamed video to Tower for 18 minutes before light went out on…"
"Hi Glenn Gregory
When I had it running back early June my Alfa did not randomly turn off. I did however have the Raspberry Pi 2 powered via a HiModel 5 Amp UBEC. I managed to change the rc.local file so that Mavproxy & the camera worked…"
When I had it running back early June my Alfa did not randomly turn off. I did however have the Raspberry Pi 2 powered via a HiModel 5 Amp UBEC. I managed to change the rc.local file so that Mavproxy & the camera worked…"
"Pi2 Pi camera & Tower - it works as per below, but I need to add the Pi video command to rc.local. I haven't managed to get it to work yet with both commands in the rc.local file
rc.local file:
echo $PATH…"
rc.local file:
echo $PATH…"
"The only adjustments I made to Jessie Lite were 'enable_uart=0' to '1' in /boot/config.txt' to get the ttyAMA0 files back in /dev and 'sudo chmod a+rw /dev/vchiq' to get the Pi camera to work"
