"i suspect all whitespy units are unsafe. 45mm gps unit ate battery i soldered in in fall over winter, and its gps is producing highly erratic data that causes vehicle to wander around. it is not charging battery and i am not going to solder in a…"

"copper base helps a bit. but what helps way better is to use properly filtered 5V voltage feed, from a BEC separate from the one that feeds flight controller. when i rerouted power and stopped using 5V from the COM port where GPS was connected to…"

"OK, for a first time, I think, ever, I got an error from MP software claiming 'query error' when it tried to download firmware.
I just updated MP to latest beta and tried to flash 3.3-rc1 it fails every time it tries to get a firmware file.  
It is…"

"I see. I know what ROI is but it was practically useless feature as it is extremely rare when you would need to film around a static target that does not move.
Still, thanks for pointing this out. I will try it during gimbal setup next time I get to…"

"Randy,

I feel like I am missing something in this 'ardupilot can then specify the exact angle that it wants the gimbal to move to'.
Where is this angle coming from? I can only think of the application where gimbal would be pointed at some spot on…"

"Rob,

what is your opinion about Qualcomm`s Snapdragon Flight product? Did you see it yet? Its 801 CPU is quite a good one, in my opinion, and should be faster than one pixhawk currently uses.
Or is this Snapdragon Flight for now nothing more than a…"

"Hi Paul,

Could you remind me pls, is there any new teensy code updated with all new voice messages newest arducopter 3.3.2 rc2 produces?
If it exists, where is its download page? I tried to google it today but did not find for some reason.
It is…"

"Hi,

Could you pls explain what is the actual purpose of having Storm32 connected to pixhawk via serial port?
What specific functionality you use that requires that?

I only use one channel sent to storm32 to alter tilt of the camera, do you use…"

"if you engage RTL in the end then it is absolutely required to change routine and engage GeoFence so firmware will not let you to start and fly until system acquires acceptable GPS lock and gets your initial position correctly, otherwise your start…"

"all is good while it works as designed. orientation of controls in simple mode only depends upon your compass orientation at the time you got vehicle armed. it stays same and it is good.

super simple relies on the GPS coordinates and alters…"

"I wrote about this before. It is beyond me who came up with an idea to reverse controls dynamically,

It only works in the super simple mode, so, do NOT use it, ever. Combined with a chance of a GPS glitch this thing can start randomly swirling your…"

"Installed and flew it today, all seems to be well except of gps switching between units. I ended up disabling that parameter for auto switch and then it was all fine, very stable.
Other thing - for my armattan i set all filters to 40hz from default…"

"Major problem with loiter right now is this - when GPS gets switched or gets wrong coordinates - craft darts to a side and in loiter reaction to input controls is sometimes not sufficient to counteract in time, so it you fly close to a building,…"

">COMPASS_EXTERN2 and COMPASS_EXTERN3?

that is apparently a support for multiple redundant compasses that would be awesome if it worked - but as all external compasses units in the gps receivers sit on same hardware address nothing of that works."

"I am still on rc10 but if I disconnect gps with external compass it for sure sets compass external parameter to 0."