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Roy Stevens commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot flight test 2: RTL
"Strangely, I think I'm seeing the same thing happen to me in real life. Occasionally when I turn on the ardupilot, it will just turn the rudder completely one direction and it will lose altitude pretty fast (because it also spools down the throttle!…"
Apr 17, 2009
Roy Stevens commented on Roy Stevens's blog post Ardupilot RF Interference?
"Thanks for your help, everyone. In an effort to avoid spending much more money, we got ahold of a ferrite ring & used it on the wires coming in/out of arudipilot. That helped a bit but the thing that really did the trick was completely wrapping…"
Apr 17, 2009
Roy Stevens commented on Roy Stevens's blog post Ardupilot RF Interference?
"Thanks for the suggestion, Chris. I tried twisting up all the servo wires I could and keeping everything far apart (nothing transmitting inside, yet). Unfortunately I'm still getting heavy twitching. What's more is that it depends heavily on the…"
Apr 12, 2009
Roy Stevens commented on haroon's blog post can any one tellme is there any free software available for designing the body of a uav. it sould be easy to use
"I'm not sure if you'll find something like that available for free. Such programs will also be quite complicated to use and get a meaningful result. I use ANSYS ICEM CFD which is very expensive. If you can get your hands on it, though, it can do…"
Apr 12, 2009
Roy Stevens posted a blog post
I've been having some problems intermittently with RF interference when flying my Nexstar EP. I always thought it was just some local interference which kicked on and off for whatever reason and that I needed to just do a range test before each…
Apr 10, 2009
Roy Stevens commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Arduino debugging tips
"Hey guys,
I was fiddling with my board trying to upload sketches for a while and having no success. After a while (not sure exactly what I did to possibly cause this) when I plugged in the FTDI cable I got the message "USB Device Not Recognized" and…"
Feb 27, 2009
Roy Stevens posted a discussion
My adviser specializes in MEMS research (microscopic electronics) and I am making this post to see if anyone has any ideas for a masters thesis. To put simply, what on a UAV needs to be smaller (microscopic)? (sensors, actuators, navigation…
Feb 19, 2009
Roy Stevens posted a blog post
Hi everyone,My classmate and I are building a UAV as part of our senior project. We're going to base it off the Ardupilot. Despite having little experience directly in UAVs, we think, perhaps incorrectly, that the project will be lacking a bit in…
Jan 18, 2009