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Phillip Kocmoud commented on Phillip Kocmoud's blog post Introducing the AUAV X2.1 Flight Controller
"Hi Tobias,
The instructions if you are running ardupilot are here. http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-camera-shutter-with-servo.html . They will be the same as a Pixhawk. If the doc is correct then you will not need any special code but we…"
May 22, 2018
Phillip Kocmoud commented on GliderUAV's blog post I built a thermalling drone.
"Kees,

Nice work!

Hi Chris,
Now that AUAV is part of mRobotics, we have plans to make more AUAV3 boards and a new micro version of the AUAV3 that is almost ready."
Sep 25, 2017
Phillip Kocmoud commented on Phillip Kocmoud's blog post Introducing the AUAV X2.1 Flight Controller
"Johnathan - Who are you and what are you talking about?"
Feb 13, 2017
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Don, this is awesome. I just did a compass cal last night with the most recent stable release of QGC and did not see this feature? Opps, I guess this is specific to the APM firmware!

In my experience bad compass calibration on a Pixracer is most…"
Jan 8, 2017
Phillip Kocmoud commented on Phillip Kocmoud's blog post Introducing the AUAV X2.1 Flight Controller
"We would love to sell them and the hardware is in our hands. Bootloader is finished. We are just waiting to core dev developers availability to complete the port of this board to PX4 and ArduPilot."
Oct 16, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud posted a blog post
The AUAV X2.1 is all about lessons learned. The X2 was a very successful board but there was still room for improvement. Following the PixRacer project we had time to invest into making the X2 the high quality PixHawk replacement we intended it to…
Sep 23, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Cala, please explain "video filtered"?

Phil Cala said:
Nice quality, neat and tidy installation too, than I have now, I installed in a racer and I'm going to install this one in my other two quads too, I don't need video filter with this PB, It's…"
Aug 9, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"There is nothing magical about our power supplies, the PixRacer just really needs good clean 5v to 5.5v power. Any decent power module should do.

Phil

Glen Leeon said:
Can anyone tell me if the power board (ACSP4) that is an optional with the…"
Aug 9, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud commented on Scott Shawcroft's blog post Introducing Polystack Flight Controllers
"Very nice, glad to see someone thinking outside the box!"
Aug 4, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Nick has your order marked as Ready to Ship. This means it is on the way to the post office. When did you email us? We reply to every email that we receive, good or bad..."
Jul 15, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Nicholas Witham's discussion Pixhawk-lite vs PX4mini vs pixfalcon
"Marc, We recently made a number of improvements to our retired but successful X2 (PixHawk compatible) boards and in the next couple of weeks will be announcing the X2.1 . Like all of our products quality and support will be of the highest priority."
Jul 15, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Marcell,
We have plenty of stock on boards. Cables stuck in customs is the latest issue with Europe shipments. I think Nick received them today so expect your order to ship shortly."
Jul 15, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"That is really odd, it was there yesterday.
Michael Burmeister said:
I would be willing to purchase one and get it working for you, but it appears hobbyking has pull the product from there website.  Maybe now you have a collectors item....."
Jul 13, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Agreed. This is not about politics. It was really just the poor decision to use cheaper inferior components rather than the ones specified in the design.

Cloners care about profit first and customers / safety last (maybe never?)."
Jul 13, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"We actually have plenty in-stock, I have forced an update to the site to remove that erroneous data.. We already ship from inside the EU and the USA.
Marcell Kovacs said:
As a clone user, based on your information, i decided to give a try and buy…"
Jul 8, 2016
Phillip Kocmoud replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"I would start with... "Why does my board not work with ArduCopter 3.4?""
Jul 6, 2016
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