About

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Male


Location

Tromsø


About Me:

Born in 1982, with education in electronics, signal processing and acoustics. From Northern Norway. Enjoys solving problems, making things and being outdoors.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Started building quadcopter in the autumn of 2012. Interested in aerial photography, FPV flying and mounting various sensors on the UAV.


Hometown:

Steigen


Activity Feed

Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to ThatJoshGuy's discussion Pixhawk BAD ACCEL HEALTH APM 3.2 - collecting data
"A quick follow-up, although the discussion has now moved on:
I contacted 3DR regarding the crashes described above, and they confirmed that the Pixhawk has an MPU6000 failure. They will be sending me a replacement. "
Feb 12, 2015
Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to ThatJoshGuy's discussion Pixhawk BAD ACCEL HEALTH APM 3.2 - collecting data
"Good idea, Staq. My original Pixhawk was purchased in September 2014. This one had a faulty accelerometer and was never flown. I received a replacement in January 2015, this is the board which I'm struggling with now. I'm able to arm, but there seem…"
Jan 31, 2015
Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to ThatJoshGuy's discussion Pixhawk BAD ACCEL HEALTH APM 3.2 - collecting data
"Hello Nils,
thanks a lot for looking into my logs. I think I can explain the RC in and gyro values:
- In the first flight, I took off, landed, and took off again. I think the odd "yaw in" values are due to me disarming and rearming the copter.
- In…"
Jan 31, 2015
Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to ThatJoshGuy's discussion Pixhawk BAD ACCEL HEALTH APM 3.2 - collecting data
"Hello everyone,
I have had similar pre-arm issues with my Pixhawk, but I have also experienced two mid-air accelerometer failures leading to my quadcopter crashing. I thought I'd share the details and logs with the community, hoping that they will…"
Jan 30, 2015
Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to Steffen Kupka's discussion TBS Discovery Pro with APM 2.6 maiden flight
"I recently had the same kind of problems with my TBS Discovery with APM 2.6. I had some success with dialling down the altitude P value (gives softer response to altitude input data), and also dialling down the vertical time constant…"
Aug 24, 2014
Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to Thomas Gregg's discussion MinimOSD won't show text when camera is plugged in, fine without
"I've had lots of weird problems with the MinimOSD, but they disappeared when I started using the 5V from the ardupilot to power both sides of the card. But I'm using a 12V 600 tvl camera..."
Jun 5, 2014
Martin H. Skjelvareid replied to Cam Donaghey's discussion APM 2.5 Arducopter - "Toilet Bowl" Effect? Help needed please.
"I'm probably very late here, but I had similar problems and fixed them by enabling the "COMPASS_LEARN" feature, which calibrates the compass by using GPS data. Give it a try if you haven't yet."
Oct 26, 2013