Gender
Male
About
Location
Yellowknife, NT
About Me:
Retired, electronics engineering tech, lots of diverse experience. Worked in mineral exploration, logistics, large construction projects, lived in 5 different countries, worked in a dozen others. Interested in motorcycles, photography, travel, aviation.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
This is my first UAV, a quadcopter. Have always been interested in RC models but the quadcopter really caught my imagination.
Hometown:
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
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"I worked with a minerals company that used a reflectorless theodolite set up at 4 known stations around an indoor mineral stockpile with a volume of around 15,000 cubic metres. Multiple readings from top to bottom along several different lateral…"
"Nice facility. Any chance of posting a few short videos of the people and machines at work?"
First, I'd like to thank the team that developed and tested 2.8.1, I've recently found time to fly a more or less standard 3DR quad with APM2 and found it fly's very well with standard parameters (the best I've flown to date).Or it did until I flew…
"I was also breaking and bending a lot of motor shafts when I first starting flying my quad. I ended up buying about a meter of 4mm ground and polished tool steel shafting (amazon). I used a dremel tool to cut the shafts to length and mill a few…"
"I've just recently found time to start playing around with a quad I built earlier this year using an APM1 and fairly standard motors and frame. I had tested it with a version of Arducopter available in January, it was OK but needed some tuning.…"
"The drone is a Hanger 18 Osprey, check this link: http://hangar18uav.com/osprey.htm"
"The ArduSub idea really appeals to me. A group I worked with recently on a port construction project looked at ROV subs to monitor various underwater structures. I did a some of the research and found a few very interesting bits of kit out there,…"
Hi, I'm building my first quad and am having problems getting the ESCs to arm. I have followed the ESC calibration instructions, several times, but no luck. On the APM (loaded with the latest code V2.1.0) I get a solid green light indicating it is…
