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Philadelphia, PA
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I am interested in creating a quadcopter drone to take aerial footage
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"Wow. Very impressive skills! I don't think I'd ever have the balls to flip a quad in my house!"
"A lot of these commercial systems are priced at this level. I attended AUVSI this past August and a lot of these companies are selling similar products at similar price points. What local Law Enforcement agencies have the $40k-$60k for that? "
"$99 for the Revolution board! No brainer, considering the flight behavior of the CC and CC3D.
Sure there are supply issues for the masses. Quality hardware and software is going to be in high demand. The model of OP is not commercial to make money.…"
Sure there are supply issues for the masses. Quality hardware and software is going to be in high demand. The model of OP is not commercial to make money.…"
"I get ~9-10min safely. The Tigers have a prop adapter that is 5mm. Just need to get a 8-5mm adapter.
You should be ok with 3S. Might be a little on the heavy side, depending on your payload."
You should be ok with 3S. Might be a little on the heavy side, depending on your payload."
"@Mark, my quad is about 1.6kg AUW. I run Tiger MT 2216-900kv + Graupner 10x5 on SimonK 30A ESC powered by 4S 3300mah Turnigy Nanotech. I use EzUHF for RC Control. "
"You didn't have any YAW authority it looked like. That was very scary. Wow. Did you try flying in a stabilized or acro mode to see how if you have that same problem?"
"Can you share some photos of your setup? Using the standard whip antennas with 5.8GHz is not going to give good results. 5.8GHz is very sensitive to obstructions and objects infracting on the fresnel zone. Any parts of your frame or lipo obstructing…"
"Jason, looking good. I completely agree with you guys about simplicity. I have been running copter control for a few months with just gyros and no auto-leveling. Having a well tuned machine in rate mode is pretty much all you really need. "
"Haha! I think it was NOT enough coffee in my system yet!"
"sadly, i don't have one yet. "
"@steve, i updated the post with a photo showing how the gopro is mounted on the frame. there are several layers of neoprene tape to slow down any vibration that get through the frame. it works fairly well, the next step is to find an alternate…"
"@ryan, haha! that was actually a lot of "fun."
@johann, i have the camera mounted on a piece of ply with several layers of neoprene tape so it's dampened. that could be why it seems there's a head tracker."
@johann, i have the camera mounted on a piece of ply with several layers of neoprene tape so it's dampened. that could be why it seems there's a head tracker."
"Johann, I've spent a lot of time tuning and balancing. I am not using a head tracker here and just using the gopro output right now since I am waiting for a dedicated fpv camera."
Second FPV flight with my OpenPilot Quad. Just a short flight testing some tiny PID tweaks. Flight is mostly in acro.
"@Paul, have you tried disconnecting each individual esc and calibrating? BTW, your hexa looks nice. I finally put mine together too, so I was looking for some tuning help. Are you using a UAP1 frame from Rusty? I have the same.
@nicolas, do you fly…"
@nicolas, do you fly…"
