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I have a new in box, never used Swift Navigation Piksi RTK GPS system.Sells for 995 online, asking $800 shipped. Message me if you are interested. Can provide pictures.
"What is the model name for this camera?"
"pump the breaks"
"If the rotor is powered (i.e. motors that power the rotor are on the rotor), you dont need to cancel out of a lot of torque on the fuselage-- you just need to cancel out the torque due to drag on your joint between the fuselage and rotor (bearings…"
"On a more helpful note, you need to work on pitch control. tilting your wings is not an effective method of pitch control."
"the term "electric ducted fan" is not allowed to be used with the terms "efficient" or "not that loud" or "these make a lot of sense, lets use them""
"Any chance we can get parachute landing? "
"The goal of the video was give an introduction to PID control with a practical example that interested students could relate to: driving a car. With a four minute video, you do not have time to explain how to tune the controller-- that is control…"
"It looks like the NAVIO board is fairly simple-- They give a lot of details how the board is wired and might be possible for a DIY'er to fab up their own shield.
http://docs.emlid.com/Navio-APM/hardware-setup-navio/"
http://docs.emlid.com/Navio-APM/hardware-setup-navio/"
Hey Everyone,I am working in a research lab that has a full motion-capture system. I was curious if anyone knew a way to send the vehicles GPS location over mavlink through roscopter. I have roscopter working, but instead of using an offboard…
"Efficiency still goes up with rotor diameter. Propellers have a higher figure of merit than rotor blades.
If I were going to build a camera platform for a DSLR or anything, it would be a heli, for sure. "
If I were going to build a camera platform for a DSLR or anything, it would be a heli, for sure. "
"I like your design a lot! I made a very similar gimbal for my quad back in July, and after that I started selling them online. The price difference is crazy between printing one and buying a junk CNC one. The plastic is a lot lighter, ABS is pretty…"
"Nice post Eli-- that plane is awesome. "
"This was a cool video showing what something might be able to do some day... thats all it is... cool. They didn't even come close to helping solve the problem of how do you navigate indoors and outdoors."
"I think this was solved by the release of 2.74 about 20 minutes ago...
oops"
oops"
I have been trying to set up my new wing with an Ardupilot running Arduplane 2.73.There is this new 'ELEVON_OUTPUT' that actually works fairly well for setup, but I cannot get enough throw out of the servos. I tried to drive the signals furthers…
