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Maker of Ultra-Light Quad rotor aircraft kits for the Pixhawk.


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Jon Farhat replied to Phill Simpson's discussion Operating a relay with the Pixhawk Aux pin
"Hi Reuben

Thank you, as well as Henri for this circuit layout.   I built it and hooked it up to a HackHD board camera which usually just needs to short two pins for under a second to start and stop.   Tactile switch speed.  This circuit passes some…"
May 29, 2015
Jon Farhat replied to Phill Simpson's discussion Operating a relay with the Pixhawk Aux pin
"Reuben

You mentioned how you thought Henri's circuit (Attachments: Pixhawk relay driver-2.pdf, 14 KB) could be used as a simple switch.  I agree with you, many cameras just need to short two pins. 
Could you share a way to do this simply with a…"
May 24, 2015
Jon Farhat commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Integrating drones with Maya video camera/effects control
"Hi Nicolas
Not a special camera.  In this case, only and SD camera was used, at 60 fps.  It's a tradeoff.   Higher framerates hold on to the points better, (obviously) and higher physical resolution increases the resolution of the paths, but in many…"
Apr 2, 2015
Jon Farhat commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Integrating drones with Maya video camera/effects control
"Yes, this is much better than when I used GeneralLift's Encodacam to fly Jeremy Renner over a forest.   And that was amazing.  In that case we shot him on Greenscreen in Berlin,  but the camera was on a Technocrane with all axis encoded…"
Apr 2, 2015
Jon Farhat left a comment on Andropilot Users Group
"Well we figured out the mystery with WP file format exchange between GCS and AndroPilot.  

ANDROPILOT (Android)

AndroPilot Import requirements only single space between params seem and does not allow TAB like the PC versions, Mission Planner and…"
Mar 22, 2015
Jon Farhat left a comment on Andropilot Users Group
"Thanks for this app Kevin.  It is really solid and straight forward.
I am having trouble importing WP files into the system.  Keep getting an incompatible format thing.  It appears the wpt format is simply a re-extension of the Mavlink TXT waypoint…"
Mar 21, 2015
Jon Farhat replied to Kyle Sawyer's discussion Esc's won't hold calibration. Help me
"Same here.  4-in-1 Esc calibration won't retain.    While in calibration mode, and right after you lift the stick to test it, those motors roar.  But power it down, and back up after 30 seconds, you lift the throttle a bit and the motors barely…"
Feb 18, 2015
Jon Farhat replied to Justinclouds's discussion Low cost, high endurance, disposable fixed wing platform
"May I suggest the PaperDrone Disposable concept for Pixhawk?
http://ospheric.com
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/new-paper-drone-concept-in-ultra-..."
Feb 5, 2015
Jon Farhat posted a discussion
We'd like to ask the community to seriously consider a new quadrotor platform, a new concept really.  Ospheric.comAn Ultra-Light, inexpensive extended time aloft, quad-rotor Kit called Paper Drone.  It's not all paper, but 50% of it is.     The idea…
Feb 5, 2015
Jon Farhat posted photos
Feb 5, 2015