Gender
Male
About
Location
pretoria
About Me:
35 year old south African. started in uav's 10 months ago for the WCUAVC.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
interested in building a uav from scratch, airframe, autopilot, everything.
Hometown:
bloemfontein
Activity Feed
"Hi everybody. I hope someone will be able to help me with a little problem I have with my Turnigy t1000. I Mounted it on my mini talon and set it up as per instruction. The v tail mixing works fine if you use the controller but when it comes to…"
"A little off the topic here but I see you used autotune to tune your mini talon, how safe is that? Also when I flew my maiden with the mini talon, started in manual and it seemed a bit nose heavy so I switched to stabilize and the wings leveled but…"
"I use a 4s 5000mah zippy compact"
"Hi Scott, I recently bought myself a mini Talon and before that I had a FPV Raptor and I am absolutely loving the mini Talon. My Mini Talon weighs 1600grams with a 850KV motor and a 9x4.5 prop. I unfortunately do not know what make the motor is…"
I was thinking of designing and building my own autopilot for a project.I do have a APM 2.6 and its a brilliant piece of hardware but a little too complicated for what I have in mind.What I need is a autopilot that is basicaly a 3 axis flight…
""Flying UAVs now is comparable to having driven a car 100 years ago, and there would have been lots of stories about breakdowns, fires and long walks home in the night..."
That's what makes this such an exciting project because how many people do…"
That's what makes this such an exciting project because how many people do…"
"Thanks for the reply. I did superglue it together and it still looks like new. I love epo foam. Just hope it holds together, although I did think about fiberglassing the out side of the talon for extra strength, I'm also at 4500' so other people's…"
"Ok, here's my setup.
The first airframe was a FPV Raptor. I picked it because of the massive space inside(that turned out to be completely impractical for my purpose. Too many curves and the fact that the body narrows towards the rear) and the lack…"
The first airframe was a FPV Raptor. I picked it because of the massive space inside(that turned out to be completely impractical for my purpose. Too many curves and the fact that the body narrows towards the rear) and the lack…"
I started this project as a fun hobby but at this stage its turned into a nightmare.About 10 months ago I heard about the Wildlife Conservation UAV Challenge over the radio and decided to enter thinking that it would be a fun and interesting…
