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Kwazulu Natal


About Me:

In Apple IT building and designing video systems, a big fan of RC gadgets.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Love the DIY thing


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Kevin Lourens replied to Jeff Simpson's discussion Issues with XBee PRO and XStreamBee adapter board
"Hi Jeff,

Have you managed to feet your xbee's working? I have the same units and can't get them to work either. I can set them to talk to each other via terminal but mission planner can't connect.

Cheers
Kevin"
Apr 2, 2012
Kevin Lourens replied to Kevin Lourens's discussion Xbee Woes
"i tested the 900 as per Ted's device, works thank you but can't adjust pid's so makes it kinda useless :(

So i am back to the 2.4 modems, the models are XBP24BZ7, if anyone has set this up to work please let me know

Thanks,
Kevin"
Mar 30, 2012
Kevin Lourens posted a discussion
Hi All,I would really appreciate any advise or direction on how to get my Telemetry to work.I have the following:APM1XtreamBee USB Adapter x 2XtreamBee Board x 2Xbee Modems-2 x Xbee Pro 900 (XBP09-XSC)2 x Xbee Pro 2.4 (S28 Series 2)I am battling to…
Mar 30, 2012
Kevin Lourens replied to Charl van Hemert's discussion Where are all the South African Multi rotor fliers?
"Hi Charl,

There are a couple us around :) myself, Daniel and I know of Jared around in KZN, sure there are more. Daniel is a genius at frame designs and builds and there is Jared, you can source a lot of things from him too.

What do you fly?…"
Mar 26, 2012
Kevin Lourens replied to Kevin Lourens's discussion Help With Glitching
"Hi All,

Okay seems this is all part of learning. I did the radio calibration last nigh, i redid all esc calibration but manual way.

All seems to be okay, i just need to double check my receiver as i am using a Futaba T7CP 35Mhz.

I would like to…"
Jan 24, 2012
Kevin Lourens posted a discussion
Hi All,New around here so i applogise if i am posting this in the wrong place.I have a very interesting or maybe no so interesting problem. I have a Hex, i have Ardu Pilot mega with latest firmware.I loaded the firmware without anything connected…
Jan 23, 2012