Gender
Male
About
Location
Bend, OR
About Me:
GIS analyst, cartographer, and web map designer at www.realurban.com
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
3DR IRIS w/ Tarot gimbal
Hometown:
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Activity Feed
"Sorry to hear about the loss. Did you have any flight plans loaded? Maybe plot a line from your incident to the home coordinates of your last arming or flight plan and look about 2 miles out for the Iris...
Losing GPS in flight is definitely weird.…"
Losing GPS in flight is definitely weird.…"
"This has worked out great with Pixhawk, 15" props and a 10,000 mAh 6S, with at least 1.5 kg of payload, and could be made into an X8 that still folds down. This is for mapping though, and with a 660mm frame (or the one shown at 800mm), it doesn't…"
"I don't know about all that drama and fpv racing as a commercial thing, but they are so damn fun to fly I can't tell you. It will put your flying confidence (and PID tuning) on a whole different level once you fly these things a few dozen times. A…"
"External compass/GPS antenna with the standard 3DR ublox was the 2nd-best mod I've done to the Iris+, the 10" CF props being first by a hair. It doesn't help with the barometer obviously, but GPS lock was quicker, HDOP improved, the "seeking"…"
"Captured well over 200 acres of usable data on this one."
"I couldn't be happier with mine, love it. I would buy an IRIS V2 in a heartbeat, but I'm not a Solo customer. It wouldn't take much to make a new version of the IRIS a killer, lower-cost, DIY-friendly alternative to the Matrice:
10" props
upswept…"
10" props
upswept…"
"OpenStreetMap!"
"Edited the title of the post, sorry for the confusion and thanks for all the guidance."
"Thanks, that does help."
"Ha! That's a great resource, thanks."
"Thank you, that sure makes more sense then requiring manufacturers to provide something for every commercial craft they sell."
"Unless when they say "applicant", meaning me, they mean I can just take my user's manual to get Notarized?"
Getting great results with 10mp at 200'-300'. Modified IRIS+ with GoPro Hero3 Silver, about 675 photos.
"Yes, all in STB."
"Stab Yaw P: 5.00
Rate Yaw
P: 0.400
I: 0.040
D: 0.004
IMAX 100"
Rate Yaw
P: 0.400
I: 0.040
D: 0.004
IMAX 100"
