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Flight Test Engineer
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Built IMU from scratch. Love Personal UAS tech. UAS Developer at Boeing.
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"Andre,
Thank you for the quick response! Any details or timeline?? I'd really hate to reinvent the wheel.
Tony"
Thank you for the quick response! Any details or timeline?? I'd really hate to reinvent the wheel.
Tony"
Hi all,Quick question: is it possible to save the last known good gyro calibration values to nonvolatile memory?If not, my team and I may need to implement this function for use on a boat.Thanks!Tony
"As soon as I can, I will!"
"Pretty heavy for a single unit. We are at 60 lbs empty. Running 12 cell @44Ah we are around 90lbs.
All said and done, its really exciting to see fly. I'd post pictures but its proprietary at the moment.."
All said and done, its really exciting to see fly. I'd post pictures but its proprietary at the moment.."
"Understood, that's why I'm trying to eliminate as many single point failures as possible.
We ended up moving to a eight motor solution."
We ended up moving to a eight motor solution."
"Thank you Stephen, I'll report back if i figure it out. First thing I'll do is recalibrate the mag."
Hi all,My question: does the arducopter control laws ignore the onboard magnetometer when the external compass is initialized on the Pixhawk/APM. Furthermore, is the external compass MAG or MAG2 in the datalog?I'm having some yaw issues on a large…
"Thanks for the response Darrell! I think you definitely bring up a great point, the mean time between failure on these controllers are definitely very high which makes them very reliable (thank god). I think I'm just looking for some peace of mind…"
Hi all,Does anyone know of any redundancy solutions for the PIXHAWK/APM2.5+? I'm flying a very expensive and heavy quadrotor that can do some serious damage. I want to reduce the risk of a single point controller failure to the best of my…
