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matthewlim replied to Chris Anderson's discussion Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board
"Bill,

In rmat.c, in the function roll_pitch_drift, We noticed that you used the union of the longww struct so that you can take advantage of individual bytes or the entire number... When accumulating your integral, you use the lower byte as your…"
Apr 16, 2009
matthewlim replied to Chris Anderson's discussion Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board
"Bill,

So, i've fried the 5V regulator on the board. The board still works, but at a lower MIPS.

Do you happen to know the part number for the regulator? In the hardware schematic, I believe it is labeled as U6, and it's a small 5 pin package. It…"
Mar 30, 2009
matthewlim replied to John_Mac's discussion Discussion of application of UAV Dev Board to CCPM RC Helicopters
"Hello,

Thanks for showing me this thread. Our group is composed of mainly programmers, none of which have any helicopter flying experience. I actually crashed the helicopter into a coffee table the other day, and one of my partners is replacing the…"
Mar 27, 2009
matthewlim replied to Chris Anderson's discussion Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board
"BIll,

I'm part of a group that is also currently trying to stabilize a helicopter using your dev board.

As of now, we are using the ADC converter to convert the analog voltages from the accelerometers/gyros on the board. Looking at the…"
Mar 27, 2009