Gender
Male
About
Location
Copperopolis, CA
About Me:
I work with robotics and instrumentation.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
The R&D fascinates me. Much progress has been done over the years reading the threads. Have flown a few flights with FPV. My latest interest is a custom Quad using Arduino based control setup.
Hometown:
Central California
Activity Feed
"As a Problem Solver. I wish for a Solution. Other Wise like Rickover (You Are Dumb) Humm? And go into the Closet."
"Thanks Randy. My 4 Year old Daughter is into everything. Have had to lapse a little with playing the devs builds in the park. Have a pix and am looking on adding a second GPS. Maybe the Neo 7 as a redundant backup? Humm.."
"Model Rockets will be a thing of the past.
Sometimes the parachute does not deploy,
and the Lawyers will be ready if a foamy hits you on the head."
Sometimes the parachute does not deploy,
and the Lawyers will be ready if a foamy hits you on the head."
"For many that can hear a medical copter and Hospital in a nearby existence it is proper to not fly 50 Ft. I emphasize not hearing."
"This will work only with Rural communities. hehe"
"It is important to put your Phone number on parts of the vehicle that won't be damaged. The owner can claim once a accident occurs. ;-))"
"A mechanical filter at 455khz is needed now."
"I use torroids today to choke emi and rfi as close to the GPS electronics as possible. Sometimes you will have them on ESC pwm leads from manufacturers as well. This helps isolate interference as a filter. Adding a capacitance can further filter out…"
"As Walter Maxwell stated in the book Reflections the I 3 current can do funny things on a coax shield going up a tower using a directional antenna. There are current baluns and voltage baluns. For a 1 to 1 I use ferrite beads or wrap the coax. The…"
"As read the camera will have a great ability to not need gimbal stability at 180 degrees?
Thats neat."
Thats neat."
"Just Downloaded 3.1.4 I will erase then align and calibrate fresh. Using the PixHawk I've found that it requires a 400 Hz refresh rate to the ESC's as a mandatory capability to be solid to control the motors with little latency :-) So far the build…"
"Hot Panels have more loss. ;-)"
"Your correct. We also don't want a Faraday Shield with a outward Resonant antenna lead creeping into the electronics. hehe"
"I place a small torroid with max amount of turns as close to the GPS as possible. Especially doing fpv. Many cameras are known to be noisy."
"Ring Noise can be cancelled by very small capacitors placed properly close at power to IC inputs."
"I used a long USB cord. Start Copter facing forward rotate 180 forward and 360 backward Go back to original Roll either way 180 deg then 360 the opposite. Go to original position Yaw rotate 90 deg and repeat above until all 90 deg yaw positions are…"
