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Male


Location

Sechelt, BC


About Me:

Aviation professional


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Have been building a quad for a while.


Hometown:

West River


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Rolf Stefani updated their profile
Feb 5, 2023
Rolf Stefani commented on Rolf Stefani's blog post Airbus submits patent application for windowless jet cockpit. Fully opaque cockpit would let pilots navigate with viewscreens and holograms
"An airbus weighs 600 tons fully loaded and 400 soles on board. My little quad weighs 2 lbs and doesn't have people in it."
Jul 10, 2014
Rolf Stefani posted a blog post
The FAA thinks FPV should be illegal while the airline industry is filing patents on flying airliners with no windows.An article published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the other evening describes a patent application from European aerospace…
Jul 10, 2014
Rolf Stefani commented on Jose Pena's blog post PRE-Flight RC Simulator Drone Edition
"How do you contact the company.  Couldn't find a link on the web site.  Downloaded the USBCHK application to test my Tx for suitability but software warns that it is expired."
Jul 8, 2014
Rolf Stefani commented on Jose Pena's blog post PRE-Flight RC Simulator Drone Edition
"Looked interesting.  Went to your web site found that I could test my transmitter to see if it would work with the simulator and downloaded USBCHK.exe but when run, says it's expired version..
Can not find any way on the web site to ask this…"
Jul 8, 2014
Rolf Stefani commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"This method didn't work for me. On my QNova from HK. I used the method described by sloth2005 on RCgroups discussion.

My Bluetooth works with droid planner 2.0... See my post http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=28753951&postcoun..."
Jun 26, 2014
Rolf Stefani commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"Jean-Louis, I have followed your github posts on CX-20 with great interest. Prompted me to acquire my own QNova from HK. Flies great and videos from my mounted SJ4000 are fantastic.

One question about mounting the telemetry radio. Do you connect…"
Jun 15, 2014
Rolf Stefani commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Successful test of the Cheerson CX-20 (APM + Arducoper firmware inside)
"Well done Jean-Louis.....   I look forward to receiving my CX-20 and giving the APM telemetry mod a shot as you described on your blog.

Thanks for your efforts in detailing this new quad."
Jun 2, 2014
Rolf Stefani commented on Mark Harrison's blog post EastBay RC Guide to PID Controllers
"Would like to see part 2.  I am teaching a high school STEM UAV 101 class and I may show the class this video tomorrow as an intro into the PID / control loop discussion.  We have our FW450's almost ready to fly and need to get prepared for…"
Feb 26, 2014
Rolf Stefani left a comment for Rob Tompkins
"Good to see you here. Should look at dc drones group as well.
http://www.meetup.com/DC-Area-Drone-User-Group/"
Dec 8, 2013
Rolf Stefani commented on Scott Berfield's blog post Adding External LED Indicators and a Piezo Beeper for Arm and GPS Status
"The JD-IOboard looks interesting.  Problem is there does not seem to be enough documentation explaining how to impliment the exact functionality we are talking about in this thread.  How do you get leds to indicate ARMED and GPS lock.  The IOboard…"
Nov 15, 2012
Rolf Stefani replied to Dan Gray's discussion APM Log Visualizer Source Code
"Hello Dan,
 
Interesting software.  I see that the app only works on .log and not .tlog files.  Are they different formats?
What I was wondering was if the logs look the same as mavlink messages?  I have tried to decode the gps nmea data output from…"
Nov 12, 2012
Rolf Stefani replied to Venkat Gidda's discussion mavlink to Visual Studio??
"Hi,

This is how I do this in Visual Basic.....

In Mission Planner, if you enter a Ctrl 'g' while running, the mission planner will pop up a dialogue box for selection of a com port and baud rate. What will happen is that the mission planner will…"
Nov 10, 2012
Rolf Stefani replied to Kevin Klein's discussion Remote status LEDs
"Sound straight forward.... Off to the workshop to give it a shot.

Thanks."
Oct 26, 2012
Rolf Stefani replied to Kevin Klein's discussion Remote status LEDs
"This is my point exactly. I have no idea what "setting the parameter LED_Mode to... '107'" means. But I guess that is a bit esoteric if you guys have been mulling this over for a while. Me, as a new convert to multicopters and ardupilot, am finding…"
Oct 26, 2012
Rolf Stefani replied to Kevin Klein's discussion Remote status LEDs
"As a bulder of a HK HAL frame based quad with APM Mega 2.5, I have a problem of not easily being able to observe the GPS locked or ARM/DISARMED leds when flying.
Having no clue how to do any adru code changes, it is way out of my capability to make…"
Oct 26, 2012
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