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Software Engineer @ TNO in The Netherlands


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

RC flying for years. Now with the move towards electrical, flying with 2 homemade quadcopters. Following git master almost daily. Trying to get camera onboard with gimball


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Walter Lohman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"http://youtu.be/gzzTWKIx1bI

After preventing light hitting the baro, my tripcopter flies great! Did Autotune, used the new parameters and presto!
my Son recorded the video.
In the end, loiter is shown at low altitude. I'm using the Ublox GPS."
Apr 14, 2014
Walter Lohman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Hello Scott,

I tested the tri. covered the APM with dark tape. This really did the trick! Now flying very stable also in Loiter. Alt Hold also is better now. This thing had me puzzled some time. Thanks!

Walter"
Apr 6, 2014
Walter Lohman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Thanks for your quick response. I'll check that. My APM is partly shielded by the Ublox GPS above it, and the baro also has some coverage by some foam.
I'll post the results.

Tnx!"
Apr 2, 2014
Walter Lohman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Strange loiter for tri-copter. After lots of flying and testing with my tri-copter. Stabilize, RTL, Land -> very good. However I found this strange thing in Loiter. When switching to loiter, it stays in place very good, but... when turning slowly…"
Apr 1, 2014
Walter Lohman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Maybe a bug... Flying mostly development code, I've flown 3.1-rc7 with my newly build tricopter. All flies very well, but in Loiter, when trying Macro's trick to let the copter spin using Yaw, the motors sort of shut down and copter went to ground.…"
Jan 3, 2014
Walter Lohman replied to Craig Elder's discussion APM Copter 2.9.1.b has been released
"Latest from master flies great. Tested v3-rc3 with stock params on 3DR Quad and 880 motors.
- Stab. flies as usual. Still gaining height when full forward and returning to level. (maybe tuning will help)
- Alt Hold. Flew several accu's just in…"
May 31, 2013