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Gore


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am really quite fascinated by UAV's and any robotics, electrical, mechatronics taype stuff. It's also great seeing (and making) your own robot (-:


Hometown:

Tzaneen, South Africa --> Now in Christchurch NZ


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Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion ACM 2 Quad Loses All Radio Control
"I don't have my micro usb with me at the moment. I'll be able to get it in 3 days, but for the time being I don't think I can get the logs. I've been using my 3DR radios to tweak settings for the past few flights."
Nov 14, 2013
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion ACM 2 Quad Loses All Radio Control
"Thanks for the ideas. I've since managed to rescue my quad before any rain got to it, and have flown it since. I've also taken it for a few test flights out in the country and this issue hasn't occurred again. I did discover that by enabling simple…"
Nov 14, 2013
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion ACM 2 Quad Loses All Radio Control
"Maybe, is there a way to test it? It's strange that the issue is intermittent. I though that the ACM enters loiter or something to hold position when the radio link fails, and the quad wan't holding position after I lost control of it."
Nov 7, 2013
Sean O'Connor posted a discussion
Hi,I have a peculiar incident to report, where by my quad running the latest software from MP (3.0.1), appeared to lose radio contact with the TX on at least 3 occasions. I flew a total of 3 batteries and all flights experienced the same issue. The…
Nov 7, 2013
Sean O'Connor replied to Ioan Ghip's discussion Does "flip" work?
"Well there you go... I can't find anthing in the new manual though: https://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_SimpleMode"
Jul 5, 2013
Sean O'Connor replied to Ioan Ghip's discussion Does "flip" work?
"I think not. I remember trying it ages ago and it worked. I've just got back from uni and tried the latest build from the mission planner and it's defiantly not working, at least how it use to. When I tried it the quad sort off arched to the side…"
Jul 3, 2013
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion Tricopter yaw servo reversed

OK. Just for completeness, and to make it easier for others coming across this. This is the code fix:
 
#if FRAME_CONFIG == TRI_FRAME// servo Yawg.rc_4.calc_pwm();if(g.rc_4.get_reverse() == true){APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_7, ( (-1 * (g.rc_4.radio_out -…"
Aug 23, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion Tricopter yaw servo reversed
"Ahhh! Just got it to work! You need to reverse the RC4 channel NOT the RC7 -- RC4 is the input for yaw on a tricopter. You reverse the channel by replacing 1 with -1 as per the APM manual. It would be nice if a revision of this page…"
Jul 5, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion Tricopter yaw servo reversed
"I tried changing the value to/from: 1, 0, -1 -- there is no diffrnce between either of them. Maybe this function is disabled/not used in ACM2?"
Jul 5, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion Tricopter yaw servo reversed
"It's an anolog servo. Where about is the RC7_REV - I can't seem to find it?"
Jul 4, 2011
Sean O'Connor posted a discussion
HiDoes anyone know how to reverse the output from APM to the servo (tricopter)? Ithink that I can fix this by rotating the servo, but it might be easier to justchange something in the code, since the DIP switches are not used anymore. **The APM is…
Jul 4, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion Tricopter yaw and throttle problem

Ok, I think that I was on the right rack before. I found a way to reset the Frsky failsafe (push the bind button with the throttle above 0 and a green light on the receiver blinks). By resetting the throttle value that the receiver spits out when…"
Jun 18, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Sean O'Connor's discussion Tricopter yaw and throttle problem
"Has anyone seen this problem yet, or is it just happening on my set up?"
Jun 15, 2011
Sean O'Connor posted a discussion
Hi guys, I have a problem with my ACM and Turnigy 9x (with 2.4 GHz Frsky module and receiver)working together. The system seems to work fine with my 72 Mhz Jr radio gear. Ithought that I would post a query here as it seems a lot of people have…
Jun 13, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Jerry Jost's discussion Problem communicating with ACM 2.0.5

Hi guys,
I just tried the latest update of ACM and it seemed to work with both xbee (I have 2X 2.4Ghz 60mw pro modules) and usb - I can get telemetry and use MavLink via xbee etc.
I did have problems like yours before though with trying to…"
May 20, 2011
Sean O'Connor replied to Greg's discussion APM2560 support of Arducopter codes
"You can use the mission the planner to load code onto the 2560 or the earlier version board - you just select what version of Ardupilot you have to load the correct code. You can always use Arduino to load the code directly onto either board.
 
ACM…"
May 19, 2011
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