About

Gender

Male


Location

Ciudad de Buenos Aires


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I'm a FOSS and we are currently working on this thechnology, I also like flying things since was a kid.


Hometown:

Buenos Aires


Activity Feed

Luis replied to David Kershaw's discussion Please help - Un-responsive Pixhawk! in PIXHAWK
"I seen your video, when you plug it, click the COMs drop-down list and check the COM number the device is hooked-up to, on Linux the device changes all the time and I think on windows you can have the same behavior.

Cheers"
Apr 12, 2016
Luis replied to Rnold's discussion Almost ruined my Pixhawk by pulling out connectors in PIXHAWK
"You should have used sharp pointed twizzers to unplug those connectors, I had same problem as you with an Ardupilot and after I got those twizzers had no problem at all.

This  are my all time favourites:

http://www.goot.jp/en/handakanren/ts-10/…"
Oct 6, 2015
Luis replied to Rnold's discussion My Pixhawk telemetry does not show Voltage level in PIXHAWK
"Just to be clear, you tested your PM on a different system (ardupilot) and you got readings with that PM, right?.

Is your PX4 made by 3DR?, if so while you ask here you can ask them, even when then not respond within the hour they will answer…"
Sep 25, 2015
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Pixhawk control issues in PIXHAWK
"Here's two videos that show my problem, the YAW roll you see it's not from me :(

https://youtu.be/XfQzFCIdFyE
https://youtu.be/pRX-7-VxuJI

Cheers!"
Sep 24, 2015
Luis replied to Virgil's discussion Pixhawk and bad health compass in PIXHAWK
"Make sure you selected the right type of compass/GPS, I had that problem in the past becuase."
Sep 23, 2015
Luis posted a discussion in PIXHAWK
Hi,I'm having issues with my PX4-based quad. I get it armed and motors spin normally, they are all in the correct order since I get it off the ground more or less smoothly. I can get it off the ground and move it back and forth, left or right with…
Sep 17, 2015
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Quad crashed when RTL
"This was a year ago, the first time I went out to test.

Yes!, it was a pilot error indeed, the home was set in USA (didn't knew that back then) and I set the drone to auto and it off it went to the first WP (home) and between the drone and home…"
Dec 23, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Quad crashed when RTL
"Indeed, but the drone hit a tree before I could do anything to save it :P"
Dec 23, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Quad crashed when RTL
"I forgot about this, I found the cause to this, I live in Argentina and "Home" was somewhere in the US and the first WP was home at US, the rest you can imagine"
Dec 23, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Quad crashed when RTL
"I'll see if I can retrieve them.

cheers!"
Feb 24, 2014
Luis posted a discussion
Last saturday I went to do some testing on my quad and I had an awful crash, this is what happend:- Armed the quad with Mission Planner in Stabilize mode- Moved the a few meters up and a few mts away south- Switched to RTLThen the quad went to the…
Feb 24, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Quad strange behaviour
"I found the cause, it was MAV_ROI_WPNEXT parameter, since I did not had any WP the bloody thing spined out of control."
Feb 20, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Quad strange behaviour
"I been doing some research, and I found two hardware related reasons:
- Battery: the battery is not delivering the required amount of energy to feed all the propellers.
- Engine: one of the engines has a problem and delivers less power than…"
Feb 19, 2014
Luis posted a discussion
Hi,I have setup a quad like this:APM 2.6 fw 3.2.13DR 915Mhz Radio3DR GPS3DR Power moduleHJ 450 FrameAlso use APM 2.0 RC1/RC3I flew it normally for a time, I cant figure out why at one moment it started to behave really odd, I think it was when I was…
Feb 19, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Takeoff throttle/speed
"That's exactly how it works for me, but I want to arm it, order it to start the mission and nothing else for the copter to take off and then land.

Tanks a lot for the feedback"
Feb 14, 2014
Luis replied to Luis's discussion Takeoff throttle/speed
"I did not provide more information because I believe ardupilot behaves the same no matter the UAV, but I was wrong in the past :D

Here's the info:

Quadcopter
APM 2.5
3DR GPS
3DR MAVLink
APM Planner 2.0 RC3

Cheers"
Feb 14, 2014
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