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Male
About
Location
Hurricane, WV
About Me:
Semi-retired. Originally from Ohio. Now in WV. Techno-geek since 1980. I.T. professional
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Commercial UAV pilot and business. Doing other research and testing on a new invention.
Hometown:
Hurricane, WV
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"Thank you. OG said:
sorry that is not going to work for you ! you need new motors ESC & larger props to do what your trying to do mean a lager craft! you can put Phantom 4 parts on larger craft."
sorry that is not going to work for you ! you need new motors ESC & larger props to do what your trying to do mean a lager craft! you can put Phantom 4 parts on larger craft."
I have a Phantom 4 and without building an entirely new drone, what motors can I put on it to lift about 5-8 lbs? I'll have to keep the 9.5" props (may be able to use 10" b/c of the small size of the frame. I'm doing some cargo drops and need to…
"I ordered that equipment. Having a time finding a 5v lipo (flat). Craig said:
you could easily do this with an arduino [nano/micro/whatever] + SD reader + MPL3115A2. If you wanted to also beam down the data in realtime you could also use a…"
you could easily do this with an arduino [nano/micro/whatever] + SD reader + MPL3115A2. If you wanted to also beam down the data in realtime you could also use a…"
"Thanks for the specifics. I'm using circuit.io for wiring diagram. They don't have the radio link, though, so how should I wire it, and what do I need on the ground for it? Craig said:
you could easily do this with an arduino…"
you could easily do this with an arduino…"
"Thank you all ! This is good info. As I'm reading these, I'm watching a vid of Limor Fried. hehe.. Thank you again!"
"I was wanting a small size solution. THe Pi may be too big."
"Thanks for the info. I do have a Pi3. May do that. I'd have to figure out the programming."
I'm doing some testing on parachutes and want to record descent rate. Is there a way to do this with say, a cube, without going to a pitot tube? I would think that the angular descent of a parachute would not give accurate descent rate (or would…
