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About Me:

I like things and stuff.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

UAVs, they fly through the air and stuff. They're like, Weeeeee!


Hometown:

Charleston, SC


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Magellan commented on R. D. Starwalt's blog post More progress for the South Carolina Arducopter
"In South Carolina? I have a functioning Arducopter in Charleston SC."
Jun 19, 2012
Magellan commented on Jani Hirvinen's photo
"Found them, these are going to be useful."
Jul 15, 2011
Magellan commented on Jani Hirvinen's photo
"Jani,
Where did you get these legs?
I would like some."
Jul 15, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter 2.0 Beta first release!
"@robert.
There was no wind when I had these problems."
May 16, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter Beta update.
"It shows -1000 since the device is sitting on a level surface and gravity is pulling down on it. Gravity is always there."
May 10, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter Beta update.
"@Jason
Way to roll out the fix to the problem I had just 20 hours ago.
Someone mentioned putting a firmware version number in the Mission Planner upload dialog. That could be really useful as I can tell that your hard work is going to result in…"
May 9, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter 2.0 Beta first release!
"I'm going to go do a normal controlled flight this afternoon and see if it records to the log after I have hit the erase button in the Mission Planner Log Download GUI. Lets hope that works.
Also, is there any documentation of good values to use of…"
May 9, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter 2.0 Beta first release!
"On log files and control authority:
I tried to view the file but when I connected, I found no files available for download. I looked at the log configuration and it says the several of the logs are enabled. I decided to clear the log memory and will…"
May 9, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter 2.0 Beta first release!
"Oh, should have put this.
Thanks for getting this out. Great work."
May 8, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter 2.0 Beta first release!
"BUG FOUND:
I was in AUTO mode and executing MAV_CMD_NAV_LOITER_UNLIM.
It started getting too close to a tree, so I started to correct to move away.
It started moving away, but not fast enough to avoid. I switched out of AUTO mode and back into…"
May 8, 2011
Magellan commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter 2.0 Beta first release!
"I've got mine up and running on the new firmware. Thought I would put forward some lessons learned in the process. 
1) Start with the radio. I found that my configuration from NG wasn't the same as for ACM. So go back and verify that. 
2) Next load…"
May 8, 2011
Magellan posted a discussion
I am trying to put XBEE telemetry on the Arducopter. I have the 900mhz sma and 900mhz wire antenna units from sparkfun. I interface them through the Xtreambee boards. I have configured each of them with the same VID and 9600 baud.I cannot get them…
Jan 28, 2011
Magellan left a comment for Paul Mather
"Hi Happy,
Does your GCS support Arducopter?"
Jan 28, 2011
Magellan replied to Magellan's discussion Arducopter 3D Modeling
"No comment?"
Jan 21, 2011
Magellan posted discussions
Jan 20, 2011
Magellan commented on Aaron Curtis's blog post What to tighten and what not to: my first baby steps with my ArduCopter
"I ordered the turnigy 9x and when it arrived, the receiver was completely corroded and the receiver did not work. I decided to go with something I could trust and picked up a Spectrum 7 channel. It's expensive (300 $), but the quality of both the…"
Jan 20, 2011
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