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Hello guys,I was wondering what would happen if a thermopile equipped attitude reference system goes into a cloud. Is cloud opacity to IR high to the point where the system can no more work? Cheers!
"Thankyou,
Yes they are extremely fragile, we broke at least half of them during assembling!"
Yes they are extremely fragile, we broke at least half of them during assembling!"
"Hi Brian! I`m extremely happy to see someone else on here interested in the matter of solar planes! I made a working one too (but not nearly as cool as yours) with my best friend two years ago, (this is the post on diy…"
"He is some sort of right, but outlawing would be useless since there is a lot of open source about drones and uav in generals (making a fpv plane is ridicolously easy)...
I claim my extra points :-) : the security admin forbids even little doses of…"
I claim my extra points :-) : the security admin forbids even little doses of…"
"Insane work of art! NASA Rules!"
"I looked up attopilot and yes that seems to me a notch up from ardupilot as regard reliability BUT it costs more than 10 times more, which is waaay too much for my budget, so I still stick with Ardupilot because I love its incredible price to…"
"Hi guys! We are working on a big public archive with a lot of useful data about our aircraft, we are now working on finals exams of first semester in our engineering college (Politecnico Di Milano, a great school in northen Italy), we hope we will…"
"After seeing this I did qhat a Lonely Islands song sings about lol.... This is a work of art, cannot wait to have it (and have summer sun back again) to take our solar drone over the 200mins flying time mark!!!!!"
"Ok guys I added a slideshow with some pics in the main post! =) Also, I need hints in how to tune autopilot to fly an extreme light plane, 1.6 kg, in a strong wind considering its 2.3m wingspan. Tnks!!"
Hey guys!My ardupilot voltage reading isnt working =( In the telemetry (which is working fine) it reads "battery 3.83V" and I can not understand where is this value coming from. It reads 3.83 even if the proper battery readings pin is not connected…
"WE DID IT!!!! 142 MINUTES OF AUTONOMOUS, MOSTLY SOLAR, FLIGHT!!!!!
There is also a big margin of improvement, since in those 2 and a half hours it climbed from very low to almost out of sight 5 times, it was very windy and the plane was slightly…"
There is also a big margin of improvement, since in those 2 and a half hours it climbed from very low to almost out of sight 5 times, it was very windy and the plane was slightly…"
"Awesome job, and BTW, were was this video taken? the landscape and free space looks awesome 0.0
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"help needed here!! http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/i-need-a-pwm-output-controlled
pics coming this weekend :)"
pics coming this weekend :)"
Hey guys!I`m a student form italy and last year (senior year) me and my best friend made 2.3 meters (something like 2.7 yard) solar powered aircraft, of course handled by ardupilot!It has been more a journey than a project, making it we learnt -and…
"you can use it to make it simpler to make for other people :)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9168"
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9168"
