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Male


Location

Wilen, SZ


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

General interest in all FC's available. Tested Feyutech, quadpowered, NAZA, MWII, Naze32 - now onto APM


Hometown:

Zurich


Activity Feed

Sam Grob replied to Alex's discussion Solo -- availability Europe in 3DR SOLO
"Think I'll wait till some reputable reseller in Europe has them - not a fish-and-chips shop ...
3DR never really cared about Europe in the past, was hoping they would shape up a bit with the SOLO, but alas ...."
Jul 7, 2015
Sam Grob commented on AKRCGUY's blog post 3D Robotics IRIS+ Mapping & Follow-Me Demo
"Just to not confuse people, I assume you hit the "Follow" button, the "Dronie" button does a short away-and-back auto mission."
Oct 12, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Quite funny, it was actually the "Check for updates" button that messed up my installation of MP 1.3.10
Updated to 1.3.10.1 (Beta) and all is good again ;-)"
Sep 29, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Has PosHold been renamed to Position between RC9 and RC 10 ? I had been using flight mode 16 "Pos Hold" and now it seems to no longer exist ??"
Sep 28, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Point taken. Last time I looked I got the impression I would have to somehow select/declare all modes I would like to have simple mode active, so I used reset-to-armed-yaw - seemed less complicated then. I will re-visit  GUI/docs and reorganize my…"
Sep 9, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"All of the modes please. This for me is fallback in itself - to regain a sense of orientation if anything goes wrong in any mode.
Don't have much time to think about whether the mode I happen to be in at the moment is possibly enabled for the good…"
Sep 9, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Your frame looks to be extremely similar to mine (Xplorer Pro 500, see http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1994987) - isolated sections and all.  Have been flying it with APM 2.6 and now PixHawk, firmwares from 3.1.xx to now 3.2RCxx.…"
Aug 14, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Hugues's discussion How to assign a receiver channel as a pass-thru Pixhawk ? in ArduCopter User Group
"Randy, let me first say thanks for the huge amount of work the devs and especially you put into this. I am in no position to try to influence the priorities on the "to-do-list". 
But this feature - a simple, straight, no hacks , no crutches passthru…"
Mar 20, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion APMrover2 2.43 released in ArduRover User Group
"Is the compassmot setup feature disabled in APMrover ? I was going to do it like in copter but did not see it in CLI
With all these high power lines it might be worth a try ?"
Nov 3, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion APMrover2 2.43 released in ArduRover User Group
"Excellent work, made me build a rover based on a Maverick 4WD electric chassis. Works like a charm now - navigation precision almost down to centimeters. Used default params - NAVL1_Period now at 8, will next try to raise that since I have a minor…"
Oct 20, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Rob Ratcliff's discussion Settings to damp altitude corrections during a altitude-hold loiter when flying in windy conditions
"Not trying to sound patronizing - did you make sure the baro sensor is well protected by foam from a) wind b) direct sunlight ?"
Oct 17, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Raph's discussion Auto mode take off = flip forward every time
"There is a parameter that gives the desired height to be achieved before moving on - have you maybe set that to zero ?
TAKEOFF

Option
Alt
Lat
Lon

N/A
Altitude (meters)
N/A
N/A




Will cause the craft to take off and hold position until the…"
Oct 7, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Jared Reabow's discussion small survey 5 questions please answer for a school project,
"yes
yes
no
no
yes"
Oct 6, 2013
Sam Grob posted a discussion
I had some unexpected "let's fly to Timbuktu" events with 3.01 so I upgraded to 3.1rc2 to see whether GPS glitch prevention would make a differenceDid all the calibrations and compassmot, all results looking good.Having tested all modes (all fine) I…
Sep 30, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"I had some "let's fly to Timbuktu" events with 3.01 so I upgraded to 3.1rc2 to see whether GPS glitch prevention would make a difference
Did all the calibrations and compassmot, all results looking good
Having tested all modes (all fine) I let it…"
Sep 28, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Sam Grob's discussion AltHold hectic motors - looking for advice
"Guess I just answered my own question - RTFM - vibration level is of extreme (!) importance.
Managed to decrease vibrations by at least half using AlphaGel blocks, the result is stunning
Vibrations before
Vibrations after


Althold before (see me…"
Sep 14, 2013
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