About

Gender

Male


Location

Dallas, TX


About Me:

I am an embedded programmer


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I've just finished an open source flight controller that is almost ready for me to share. I am also working on a closed source 32 bit flight controller based around the C2000 microprocessor.


Hometown:

Dallas


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Michael Baker replied to Michael Baker's discussion Pixhawk DSM satellite fail safe detection should be a top priority
"Thanks.

Hopefully this and the PX4FLOW support will be added soon. Personally I like sbus. You can get a pretty good dsmx orange sbus receiver for not too much money. I haven't tried it with APM or pixhawk yet, but I assume as long as your…"
Dec 24, 2014
Michael Baker replied to Michael Baker's discussion Pixhawk DSM satellite fail safe detection should be a top priority
"Thanks. I checked that link out and tried it all. Apparently loss of PPM signal is detected, but loss of spek sat is not. Try it for yourself. "
Nov 14, 2014
Michael Baker replied to Michael Baker's discussion Pixhawk DSM satellite fail safe detection should be a top priority
"By that logic let's never make anything better. Let's just be satisfied with the status quo. It works fine with the q ground station and pix hawk firmware.

And luckily for me I already invested in a 12ZH and will be using SBUS. That said, the whole…"
Nov 14, 2014
Michael Baker replied to Michael Baker's discussion Pixhawk DSM satellite fail safe detection should be a top priority
"Thanks for the response. Unfortunately this doesn't work as sats just stop transmitting on loss of signal. Again using pixhawk soft ware and q ground station it works. So it's very much so doable. It just needs to be implimneted"
Nov 14, 2014
Michael Baker replied to Michael Baker's discussion Pixhawk DSM satellite fail safe detection should be a top priority
"So I guess DSM sattelite failsafe and pixhawk is not a priority for anyone. It works with the pixhawk software. It does not work at all with APM. It is trivial to implement. Why sell a product with a DSM sat port if the only way to get a transmitter…"
Nov 14, 2014
Michael Baker posted a discussion
In setting up my next multi I have chosen the pixhawk FC. I have tried both the arducopter firmware and the firmware from pixhawk themselves. The pixhawk firmware had no problem detecting the transmitter being turned off. Arducopter does not detect…
Aug 29, 2014
Michael Baker replied to Bot Thoughts's discussion Magnetometer Soft- and Hard-Iron Calibration
"Great discussion. I tried and tried to come up with an easy way to find the offsets and W^-1. After much searching I stumbled across this great little program:

https://sites.google.com/site/sailboatinstruments1/home

You feed it the strength of the…"
Jul 25, 2013