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Tom Hastie commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduCopter makes the Colbert Report!
"http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoPackage=...
 
That link should work for us Canadians.
 "
Mar 30, 2012
Tom Hastie commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter Beta 2.0.38
"Cool. Thanks for the answer.
Is 0.37 the "old way"? Or the "new way". I only got my quad back in the air last night after a month of no flying, so I'm using 0.37 which was the latest available via the Mission Planner.
 
Tom
 "
Aug 3, 2011
Tom Hastie commented on Jason Short's blog post Arducopter Beta 2.0.38
"I'm looking around for a good description of the changes to the ground start logic, and the differences between 2.0.37 and 38. I haven't found anything specific so here goes:
 
-What is the exent of the ground start alignment? Is it only nulling…"
Aug 3, 2011
Tom Hastie commented on Alpo Hassinen's blog post TaigaCam, ROBUST plane for aerial photography
"You, sir, have anger issues.
 
:)"
May 17, 2011
Tom Hastie commented on Markus Jahn's blog post Arducopter with 8 motors - First aerial photos
"Hi Markus,
 
Have you had any issues with the ArduPilot Mega and IMU shield operating in cold temperatures? It's also winter here in Canada, and I've noticed some "odd" behaviour with my ArduCopter using ArduPiratesNG software. Generally the…"
Feb 22, 2011
Tom Hastie replied to dimitris's discussion uploading ArdupiratesNG code help!!!
"I wrestled with this last night actually.
In the end I found a post in KinderKram's RCGroups Thread that stated that you need to delete the existing libraries before copying over the new libraries. For some reason, the copy, and overwrite in windows…"
Feb 9, 2011
Tom Hastie replied to Darren Ng's discussion GPS program
"The divide by 100 on the parameters is because of memory issues on the processor.

It takes alot more time and memory for a processor to work with a floating point (decimal) numbers than with integers.

To get around this, things like altitude (in…"
Sep 9, 2010
Tom Hastie commented on Nathaniel Caner's blog post "From The Ground Up" : One persons experience with DIY drones and ArduPilot - Part One
"If I didn't know better, I'd say that the first picture looks like the NEAT fair grounds near Downsville N.Y?

Ever been to NEAT?

Tom"
Aug 16, 2010
Tom Hastie commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Investigation: Procerus claims Coriolis force correction for IMU...
"As a corollary to this, I was taught in school that, in addition to affecting toilets, canon balls, and weather systems, Coriolis Force makes drunk engineers always fall over to the right.

;)

Tom"
Jul 28, 2010
Tom Hastie commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Investigation: Procerus claims Coriolis force correction for IMU...
"I don't think that they're necessarily speaking of the Coriolis effect of the earth. The spec sheet says Coriolis Force, which is general, and could apply to any rotating frame of reference.

My guess is that they are including something in the…"
Jul 28, 2010
Tom Hastie commented on Jason Short's blog post Ardupilot 2.7 Beta
"Hi Jason,

I noticed that ground_course went from an int to an unsigned int when I moved from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 on Friday. (I noticed when my X-Plane simulator was reporting courses >360 degrees.

Won't this cause a problem when working with ArduIMU…"
Jul 26, 2010
Tom Hastie commented on Tom Hastie's blog post Closed loop Simulation with X-Plane and ArduPilot
"Here's some video of the simulator in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTlJF7A1kJc"
Jul 16, 2010
Tom Hastie posted a blog post
Well I'm back in the basement tinkering after a brief hiatus. After a couple in-air resets of the Ardupilot, I decided that I really wanted to do some simulation before commiting anything into the air again. I think the resets (and crashes) were…
Jul 16, 2010
Tom Hastie replied to Tom Hastie's discussion ArduPilot Sketch Freezing
"Hey all,

Thanks for the replies. I am not using any i2c sensors, and I am using the Arduino IDE, so I guess it seems that I've run out of RAM.

I just did some browsing on the Arduino.cc website, and it seems the best advice there is to reduce the…"
Jul 10, 2010
Tom Hastie posted a discussion
Hey Everyone, I'm back fiddling with my ArduPilot after an absence caused by a couple of crashes and just being busy with summer. Anyways, I'm having an issue with my ArduPilot board that is starting to become a bit of an annoyance. I wanted to ask…
Jul 10, 2010
Tom Hastie replied to Grant Parker's discussion Choosing the right charge rate for lipos?
"Charge rate depends on the mAh capacity of the pack. Drop the "h" and you have the save charge current.

So:
2200mAh - charge at 2.2A.
1350mAh - charge at 1.3A.
etc.
It should take roughly an hour to charge a fully depleted back.

These days alot of…"
Jun 1, 2010
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