"Hello Marc,
I looked into the case and your are right about the bad communication we should not have let you wait 4 days to replay to your email.
So the thing is and I'll add clarification on our website is that 10% of shipments get lost and have to…"
"Hein, We actually only flew 7km but it'll do well over 20km, I never actually flew long enough to run the battery down 45 minutes in hover should be possible. The magnet does not need any power during static operation, only a few Joules to switch.…"
"Hello Hugues,
The reason for the delay is that I did not work without one, something to do with the logic the commands get executed.
On the second point, if the EPM makes perfect contact with the target it should not be necessary. If the contact is…"
"No, the flight computer should issue commands either to the EPM or the OGCAN card. The plan is integrate this into ardupilot code as a mission command"
"The Can Bus daughter card only provides a Can Bus interface and it looks like it will become standard for everything within the year.
There are numerous advantages with can bus, this is a good discussion on this:…"
"Hello Gary,
That would be awesome, I been trying to get to the wiki but there is never enough time
I just added you to the chat with pavel on skype
Euan, really nice job!!"
"Hello Hugues,
The price including shipping is 49.99$
I would not recommend at all to go over 1.5kg per unit. Although the holding force is higher the slightest vibration or a not so perfect mate will cause your cargo to drop.
And yes you can link as…"
We are announcing Version 2 of the EPM, Electro Permanent Magnet and the OpenGrab CAN daughterboard (OGCAN). A simple solution for cargo gripping for UAV’s and robots.Introduction EPM V2Operating principle explained in this…
Hello,So last time I went over how we mask PCB's now I am going to show how we etch the boards in 3 minutes flat. Traces down down to 8mil, 1 out of 50 boards might fail.Here we have part two, let me know what you…
"yeab thinning with ethanol, spraying and keep water out is really the key. 10 pin DFN's are really not a problem.
I haven't tried toner transfer so no idea if that's a useful process"
Hello;I been getting a lot of emails about how we make our PCBs so finally had some time to post something:Making PCB for production runsWe are in a 3rd world country so we can't get PCBs/asm'ed in anything under 8-10 weeks so we devolved small…
"oh very nice, I can see that the prop velocity is around 200km/h, good match for 135km/h flight speed. I am curious what the range would be if this was setup for endurance, eg low rpm large prop for optimized for the 30-45km/h speed."