Gender
Male
About
Location
Priest River, ID
About Me:
Graduated mechanical engineering from University of Idaho. Since then I teamed up with a computer scientist and computer engineer with plans on working into a drone based start up company.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Long duration and high performance drones, particularly gasoline powered quad copters.
Hometown:
Priest River
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"Hi Michael, We still don't have a solid solution to the control but what I did in the picture is just use an Arduino Uno and a potentiometer. If you see the brown wire in the bottom right hand corner of the picture that is all I used for control. I…"
"Things are slow on this project but we did make it past the vibration issues. We have a pretty serious isolation system now. This breaks the rigid connection between the sensors and the frame so I have some mixed feelings about that. The main…"
"Ambitious, but a controls engineer might be able to pull it off. On my end we've been stuck with stability issues for months. I've got a short clip of the first tethered flight I'll try to post in a somewhat timely manner, but everything after that…"
"Took a quick look on eBay and found some of those 450 class stretch blades. These will be geometrically straight across compatible with my current build. My frame is unnecessarily big at the moment and will easily fit the 500 sized rotors too. I was…"
"5mm... There are hundreds of 5mm bearings and hundreds of 6mm bearings to chose from. Not so much with gears, especially for my size, strength, and operating speed. Guess if I'm forced to go down this path it will be easier to have someone lathe the…"
"Ok, I'll stop mentioning better stability over a traditional helicopter. And for the outward sling topic I guess it could go one of three ways. One- everything works just fine forever. Two- everything works just fine for a while before bearings and…"
"AUW is about 20 pounds including half a gallon of gas which is a kilogram of the flight weight. By my math this will let me fly one hour. I have not had the chance to run that much gas through this thing yet my but my first test proved that the felt…"
"Lekhraj,
I'm new to DIY Drones but I've logged quite a few hours looking into this concept for my own quadcopter power endeavorers. The math I had checked out, but barely. Don't expect a heavy lifter. The fixed wing may buy you some flight time…"
I'm new to DIY Drones but I've logged quite a few hours looking into this concept for my own quadcopter power endeavorers. The math I had checked out, but barely. Don't expect a heavy lifter. The fixed wing may buy you some flight time…"
"Pedals2Paddles- A engine-generator-motor was my second design theory approach as the traditional battery-motor builds only run 40 minutes optimally and 20 for the payload requirement. After much research and calculations I concluded that generator…"
Hi Everyone,Heres a "little" project I started a little less then a year ago. It all begin with design requirements of a quadcopter with a 10 pound payload for a one hour flight time and ended up with a gasoline/variable pitch build. At the time and…
