About

Gender

Male


Location

San Juan, Puerto Rico


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I began building autonomous robots in college whilst pursing my computer science degree. Ive had a blast programming them and I am doing the Quad Copter project to begin working with UAV's.


Hometown:

San Juan


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Ricardo Madera posted a discussion
I just put together my new APM + Oil Shield. I loaded the aeroquad and arducopter gui's and it seems my Gyro X and Y are not receiving good values. I also ran the ADC test example and the reading also looked funky. What are the chances of my chip…
Jul 25, 2010
Ricardo Madera posted a discussion
Is this possible to do on the Arduino Pilot Mega? Mine suffered an accident while programming it and i get Out of Sync and other errors now. If it is, which are the pins?
Jul 19, 2010
Ricardo Madera posted a discussion
Hello,So i have spent some time programming with the ArdupilotMega + Shield combo and i just realized that my Accelerometer does not read all 3 axis. Using the APM_ADC test code, channel 3 always posts a steady 1550-1552 reading. Im not sure what is…
Jul 14, 2010
Ricardo Madera replied to Matthew M's discussion MediaTek MT3329 GPS 10Hz
"Ok, after playing around with the gps for a bit, i cant seem to find the answer to a couple of things.

1. How do I convert the latitude and longitude back to signed floats? Are you supposed to know which quadrant of the earth your on before hand?…"
Jul 5, 2010
Ricardo Madera replied to Matthew M's discussion MediaTek MT3329 GPS 10Hz
"Hello,

I just purchased one of these with the shield from the store. I hooked it up to my ardupilot mega and loaded the example code. The blue status light on the shield is always blinking and the gps never returns anything other than 0's. Am I…"
Jun 30, 2010