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Gender

Male


About Me:

Electrical engineering student, RC experience since 2000, aerial photography experience since 2007, FPV and multirotors since 2010, APM2.0 user since 2012.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

ortophoto generation for agricultural use.


Hometown:

Valinhos-SP, Brazil


Activity Feed

Ricardo Affonso replied to Robby's discussion Solar Powered Drone Project
"well, with 12h days, you probably could make 3 flights max, with a full battery on the start of the day, and 2 full recharges. you never get the max power output of the cells, and on the start and end of the days, unless you have a method to track…"
Feb 9, 2015
Ricardo Affonso replied to Samuel Shao's discussion Heavy Octocopter For Plant Protection
"The CoG could give you trouble, beeing low with the full tank and getting up when the tank depletes. be careful, and test it on both situations with same gains to see what happens, then tune it for the worst case."
Feb 9, 2015
Ricardo Affonso replied to Tamás L. Páll (Tom)'s discussion Maja +APM help needed.
"its snaking around, but the course is the same everytime, it just need some PID adjustments. the gains seems too big, so it overshoots everytime. have you already tried the autotune? what about navl1_period?

one more things is the roll to yaw…"
Jan 13, 2015
Ricardo Affonso replied to Michal Rus's discussion Allowed frequencies for UAV in Brazil in BRAZILIAN GROUP DRONE
"welcome to Brazil. this crap rules over here."
Oct 8, 2014
Ricardo Affonso replied to Michal Rus's discussion Allowed frequencies for UAV in Brazil in BRAZILIAN GROUP DRONE
"first of all, are you going to use it for comercial purposes or just hobby fpv flying? second, do you mind breaking some rules?

the fact is, the use of drones is not yet really defined here, some people say its gray area, but it is actually…"
Oct 8, 2014
Ricardo Affonso replied to Christian Stallings's discussion APM / Pixhawk systems with COA aproval
"these guys have a wonderful plane, i talked to them a few weeks ago, and they have their own autopilot, but are also using apm/pixhawk stuff. in their site they claim 60+ COA, maybe you can get in touch with them.

http://uasusa.com/#/tempest-50/"
Aug 27, 2014
Ricardo Affonso replied to Luiz Fernando's discussion Projeto VANT para TCC (Ciência da computação) in BRAZILIAN GROUP DRONE
"bom, aí você que vai ter que definir qual seu objetivo. multicopteros normalmente são mais práticos, voam em qualquer lugar (inclusive dentro da sala de defesa do tcc), e vários modelos são bem resistentes a quedas e tombos, ideal para iniciantes.…"
Aug 3, 2014
Ricardo Affonso replied to Luiz Fernando's discussion Projeto VANT para TCC (Ciência da computação) in BRAZILIAN GROUP DRONE
"Luiz, você já tem alguma experiência com aeromodelismo?

caso positivo, asa é uma boa. caso negativo, aconselho um treinador básico e 6 meses de aula de aeromodelismo (com simulador, e instrutor ou algum amigo que saiba pilotar), e enquanto isso…"
Aug 1, 2014
Ricardo Affonso commented on Exmaps's blog post EXmaps - Online log storage releases update
"ah, just one more thing. it would be nice to generate a report for each battery, i got a few ones, and keep a record of how many flights each one has by marking them when i recharge."
Jun 24, 2014
Ricardo Affonso commented on Exmaps's blog post EXmaps - Online log storage releases update
"i also tried, no luck with .tlog, i got the same error. but i tried uploading logs i already had, i´ll try to configure my gps and attitude as described on your guide( http://exmaps.com/guide ), the idea of automatically getting reports and a flight…"
Jun 24, 2014
Ricardo Affonso commented on Arthur Benemann's blog post DroidPlanner 2.3.3 - New version, new features
"Arthur, not sure if the best place to ask is here, but please, add a tab with a huge GPS clock. this way, after connected, its easy to take a picture of the time on the tablet (with seconds too, please!) and see the time diference from the camera,…"
May 19, 2014
Ricardo Affonso commented on Ricardo Affonso's blog post Emergency parachute trigger options
"this video is not mine, its from Team Echelon FPV.

Randy, a set of sensors that actually detect a huge problem and decide to trigger the parachute would be awesome, but for now i just want a way to set a servo. in the future i'll use a solenoid for…"
Dec 19, 2013
Ricardo Affonso commented on Ricardo Affonso's blog post Emergency parachute trigger options
"that's a simple option...but unfortunately i also wish to have the camera trigger command (actually with two canon chdk in sync, one nir modified, cameras), and also stabilization on roll axis."
Dec 18, 2013
Ricardo Affonso posted a blog post
I´m finally finishing the setup of a new airframe, wich now has a parachute system released by a servo (almost like this):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSkEhjy5PLY Now comes the tricky part: how to setup a good way of activating the parachute from…
Dec 18, 2013
Ricardo Affonso commented on Stefan Gofferje's blog post "Real" instruments for MAVLink UAV groundstations
"Stefan, i had an idea a few months ago, i already have a 6channel Polulu Micro Maestro servo controller, wich already talks to mission planner and has two servos designated for antenna tracking.

would it be possible to modify only the software on…"
Oct 16, 2013
Ricardo Affonso commented on Brandon Basso's blog post SpaceX Grasshopper 744m test
"impressive. looks like DJI S800 hexacopter, speeds built under motors."
Oct 14, 2013
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