About

Gender

Male


About Me:

Flying Helicopters, Quad and Fixed Wing. Drones: BlackSnapper, EagleEye(Joost)


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

APM2.6 till Pixhawk, everything in use.


Hometown:

Überlingen


Activity Feed

Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"I don't know if its really an error but the tracker didn't worked for me.

I use the code from that site: https://github.com/cgwood,
for ublox GPS, I uploaded the settings "3DR-Ublox.txt" with ucenter. you can get that from google.

for the ASM…"
Apr 24, 2014
Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"I found an Error:
change in tracker.ino for Elevation calculation:

_uavElev = toDeg(atan((uav.alt-(ASM.altitude/100))/_uavDist));

instead of

_uavElev = toDeg(atan((uav.alt-ASM.alt)/_uavDist));"
Apr 23, 2014
Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"I switched now to a uBlox Lea5. Works much better,
but I didn't know that a rotary switch is necessary. So I will add that soon.

Servos are working fine now, it just needs GPS, otherwise they are deactivated."
Apr 4, 2014
Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"ok tested outside. Servos work as soon as I have GPS Fix."
Apr 3, 2014
Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"hmm I tested the ASM with GPS reception.

when I connect with the drone, I was inside and both systems had no gps signal so far...
maybe I should test outside.
the only jumper I see is affecting the servo voltage. voltmeter shows 5.2 V
But both…"
Apr 3, 2014
Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"I am testing my new Ardustation Mega, using a Mediatek GPS. With the corrected code (#define GPS_PROTOCOL GPS_PROTOCOL_MTK19), it works fine.
Also Link with 3DR telemetry is fine. 

But I wonder if I need a rotary switch.
I really want to use the…"
Apr 3, 2014
Patrick Kaplan commented on Colin's blog post Ardustation Mega with Graphic LCD
"Hi Kim,
3s is still working fine. I used 2s and 3s for testing so far.
schematic doesn't give a hint... but I would not go over 15V for now"
Apr 3, 2014