Gender
Male
About
Location
Queen Creek, AZ
About Me:
I'm a lapsed pilot, new to RC and drones. I'm a software engineer just getting into physical computing.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I built a DIY tricopter, using the kk2 board. The thing flies great until I crash it, which I do depressingly often. (I am flying the sim a lot lately to save $$$, lol). I just bought APM2.5 and a hexacopter kit. I'm planning to get that working and explore the world of autonomous flight, and FPV. The tricopter is fun for zooming around but I want something better able to carry FPV and a gopro, with improved range. My long term goal is to build something that will automatically follow a target and film it while avoiding obstacles like trees, signs, stray kids, police cars, etc. I would also like it to be able to land autonomously on a dedicated platform. Kind of like a carrier landing.
Hometown:
queen creek, AZ
Activity Feed
"I have been having a glitch where it would RTL for no reason while just flying about in Stabilize. Looking at the logs, I think that the RTL was triggered by a perceived low battery (the battery was fine, but the voltage did drop due to control…"
"There's a TED talk featuring the guy from that robotics lab that does all the crazy quadcopter stuff like juggling and cooperatively building things. In the TED talk, he snips off half of two props, and the machine flies while spinning rapidly.…"
"Now that is one fine video."
"Regarding the yaw, there's a setting, I believe it's called "waypoint yaw behavior", in the advanced settings part of MP. You can tell it to face the next waypoint, maintain current yaw, etc. One of the settings controls which way it faces during…"
"Could one of your ESC's be hitting the low-voltage cutoff?"
"Nice. I'm considering a Y6 for my next bird.
Based on your post, I bought the Goodluckbuy gimbal. Awesome piece of kit, it works great right out of the box on my hexa."
Based on your post, I bought the Goodluckbuy gimbal. Awesome piece of kit, it works great right out of the box on my hexa."
"Awwwww. What a cute little bugger. I want one."
"Interesting. How do you keep it over the attachment point on the truck?"
"The way I avoid cutting the ESC red wire is just put a servo extension lead on it, and cut the extension's red wire. That's cheap, and reversible. The downside is you have a longer wire to stow.
I'm new at this, but my stock PIDs were fine for my…"
I'm new at this, but my stock PIDs were fine for my…"
"Nice! Thanks for sharing."
"Very cool. I loved the machine vanishing into the mist (onward, brave little traveler!) and the reappearing at the target.
Why wire? Why not some strong synthetic?"
Why wire? Why not some strong synthetic?"
"Had the same thing happen to me. Roached new carbon props.
Another warning: When using the add below button to insert a command, the default is to insert a WAYPOINT with zero lat & long under the currently selected line. If you don't do something…"
Another warning: When using the add below button to insert a command, the default is to insert a WAYPOINT with zero lat & long under the currently selected line. If you don't do something…"
"I'm having the same issue."
"Are you giving it an altitude on the TAKEOFF command? I have forgotten to provide an altitude a few times and it either goes right to the first waypoint (scary) or wobbles on the ground / flips when legs catch something like it's not sure what…"
"Okay, I'm getting crickets on my other post so I'll try here.
Version 3.0.1, I was flying great in RTL, Loiter, and Auto. The only problem was my hexa was always yawed about 15 degrees off the GPS path while flying to waypoints. I decided to try…"
Version 3.0.1, I was flying great in RTL, Loiter, and Auto. The only problem was my hexa was always yawed about 15 degrees off the GPS path while flying to waypoints. I decided to try…"
