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Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I love flying my quad.


Hometown:

Central PA


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Zach replied to J_Pat's discussion Long Range Telemetry link Setup
"Some guys have gotten some very long range with openlrsng - gitsly branch. If you want something plug and play, it's not cheap. https://www.skydrone.aero/blogs/news/using-sky-drone-fpv-with-qgrou..."
Feb 16, 2017
Zach replied to Czech Uav Guy's discussion APM Mavlink over FrSky and then back to Mavlink
"1. Yes Arduino Pro Mini clone
2. Yes
3. Yes I uploaded blink and modified it to blink 3x just to make sure everything worked.
4. This was the problem initially. I right clicked and hit save as on each file which made the ' character do weird things.…"
Dec 7, 2016
Zach replied to Czech Uav Guy's discussion APM Mavlink over FrSky and then back to Mavlink
"Ok just soldered up a board and tried to upload the test sketch. It looks like there are some language issues but the code end of thing is a bit out of my realm so I'm probably wrong. I uploaded the log to pastebin. http://pastebin.com/39FNuMFP"
Dec 6, 2016
Zach replied to Czech Uav Guy's discussion APM Mavlink over FrSky and then back to Mavlink
"That's too bad. It would be nice to be able to upload missions through the link, but that's a bit much to ask for. Being able to output information onto an i2c display would be pretty sweet though. Right now my fld-02 doesn't display the volts and…"
Dec 5, 2016
Zach replied to Czech Uav Guy's discussion APM Mavlink over FrSky and then back to Mavlink
"I'm really looking forward to getting it working. I'll deff let you know if I have any trouble. Were you able to get any upload working? "
Nov 29, 2016
Zach replied to Czech Uav Guy's discussion APM Mavlink over FrSky and then back to Mavlink
"I just ordered a few mini's to try this out. My goal is to display the data on my 9xr which is already modified for mavlink. On github you say this isn't supposed to be used this way, but hopefully it still works. When I fly I don't like juggling a…"
Nov 26, 2016
Zach commented on Sam Tabor's blog post Mavlink data displayed on Taranis, without converter
"Does this require any hardware mods to the radio?"
Dec 4, 2015
Zach replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Would I be able to put the mavlink data into one of these Teensy's and then have the output go to a fld-02?"
Dec 2, 2015
Zach replied to Forrest Frantz's discussion World Record for Duration of Flight
"So this is a world record for your own requirements? I suppose I could make thousands of world records be that the case. I find it funny that you took EndOfDay's idea for the battery pack and then claim to have a longer duration flight than him…"
Dec 13, 2013
Zach commented on Melih Karakelle's blog post Smallest Quadrocopter with GoPro
"This is really interesting. If you can lift a gopro, you can lift two Panasonic ncr18650b's which could give quite a bit of flying time. This would be a lot of fun indoors.

Another thought, have you tried 3 bladed props to see if you can lift more…"
Dec 7, 2013
Zach posted a discussion
I'm interested in the possibility of adding a large center mounted prop for my main thrust like a traditional heli, but being able to steer with the extra props of a regular quad which naturally would be much smaller.So two questions. 1. Is this…
Nov 23, 2013
Zach replied to Zach's discussion Heavy drifting forward and to the right --- very frustrated
"I think you might be on to something. My radio calibrations are:
Roll: 1515
Pitch: 1549

The values you listed are:
Hs4_trim: I can't find this value
Rc4_trim: 1493 is this value roll or pitch?"
Sep 16, 2013
Zach replied to Zach's discussion Heavy drifting forward and to the right --- very frustrated
"It happens in acro and stab for me. Oddly enough loiter works perfectly."
Sep 16, 2013
Zach posted a discussion
So I'm trying to tune my quad. It's a custom carbon fiber frame with rctimer 5010's and 17.5" carbon fiber props. I've tried tuning it but not matter what I set the values to it just wants to fly forward and to the right. It's like it thinks level…
Sep 16, 2013