Hi,
I'm just getting started in this hobby, and realized today that my knowledge of batteries needs some work. I'm building a quadrotor and I have purchased the following:
Turnigy Accucel-8150 Balance Charger/Discharger
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyk
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I'm still new to this hobby. I am about to purchase a telemetry kit (sender / receiver) for a quad that I'm building. I see there are two different frequencies available, 433MHz and 915MHz... Is there any reason I would favor one over the other
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I ordered the quadrotor kit at store.diydrones.com. At the time I ordered, I asked what are the parts that break the most? I was told props. So I asked to order a few extra props.
I received 6 props with my kit. I just now noticed that they ar
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I am building a quadrotor from the full kit provided by store.DIYDrones.com.
The power distribution board refers to a 5V out. Giving me the idea this thing runs on 5 volts...
when I first asked the sales team what batteries to buy, they sent me to
Read more…Can someone please define the following things? I'm trying to make sense of the ArduCopter code....
What is...
HIL Mode?
DCM?
gcs as in "gcs_send_message?
IMU DCM Algorithm?
AHRS?
Thanks!
Matt Christenson
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I'm new to this site, and I'm finding the forums to be very primitive and difficult to navigate:
For example:
I can't seem to find a way to search through the forums for keywords.
I can't seem to find a way to keep track of 'new' posts from the last
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I'm new to this community and don't know the most appropriate forum topic for this post to be in. Forum Admins please move this to the correct forum.
I'm wondering, is there currently an object oriented open source initiative for doing something
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I'm new to these forums. I was drawn in a number of weeks ago, while 30,000 feet or so in the air, reading an article in WIRED. I never read magazines, except when I'm at an airport, with the anticipation of a long boring flight in a cram
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