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steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 5: Virtual Sparkfun competition!
"GREAT, I will start my transfer now and hopefully you will work out the bugs ;-)"
Feb 1, 2010
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 5: Virtual Sparkfun competition!
"oh too easy... thanks chris, one more stupid question... is the code functional for elevons? I think I remember Jordi had it on his fun jet. I want to change my platform.

thanks guys!"
Feb 1, 2010
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 5: Virtual Sparkfun competition!
"hey guys is there any way i can re-read the previous competitions? i never got a chance to look at the entries and comments...

thanks!"
Feb 1, 2010
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot (Legacy) main page
"is it possible to fly with elevons (wing) ? I remember that Jordi had it working on his funjet a while ago but that is really not standard. So is there a special code I can load in for a wing?

Thanks!"
Jan 12, 2010
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot (Legacy) main page
"so I apologise for such a silly question but where do I write in the home position elevation?

The home position is set at the field wtih a jumper but where in the settings do I get to tell it the altitude to maintain at home?

thanks!"
Sep 29, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot (Legacy) main page
"I increased the settings for the mentor as suggested by chirs, the plane now seems to turn much better but I have to add more to the elevator because it still just floats down or stays at current elevation.

I have to find where I set the elevation…"
Sep 28, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Round 2--UPDATE: Deadline extended (and new contest previewed)
"Dean yup I have seem them but it does not help with putting the actual path in with all the options available.

What I was referring to was the plotting abilities of the data saved by the pap system. For atto I just open it in excel and make a chart…"
Sep 25, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot (Legacy) main page
"thanks Chris. I will do this."
Sep 24, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot (Legacy) main page
"sucess!! so I finally have the ardu installed and working on the mentor... I am using the defuult easy star settings and no waypoints. I just wanted to get the RTH working.

So it works! fairly well actually. Here are my observations. It seems to…"
Sep 23, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduIMU now available!
"well this is intersting... I have finally gotten the adrupilot to work on my mentor... now onto new things I guess... haha... so is this a daughter board then to the main adruinto autopilot? as in it takes place of the shield? Or is it stand alone?…"
Sep 23, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Paul Mather's blog post Config Tool Updates
"I have the same issue with home setting as stated above, I left comment on the main adru page and rcgroups"
Sep 21, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot (Legacy) main page
"Hi all, I seem to have everything ready for another test on wed night but I can't seem to get my home position to read off the board... I am using the latest config tool from the code page.

When I hit red it says that it reads sucessfully and when…"
Sep 21, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Round 2--UPDATE: Deadline extended (and new contest previewed)
"Dean for those of us excel challenged or just because it would be nice) it sure would be great to have the graphing automatic like the pap system. I am trying to plot my actual elevation to my waypoints and the gps elevations as shown on Vas's…"
Sep 21, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Round 2--UPDATE: Deadline extended (and new contest previewed)
"cool stuff Dean we have already emailed about this and I appreciate the quick response as usual. I put my gains back to where I had it flying well. I had increased them as per an email from you and chris but I just put them in the middle of mine and…"
Sep 21, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Round 2--UPDATE: Deadline extended (and new contest previewed)
"nice! that would be nice, far as I know I can only progrm holding patter circles not entry and exit circles...."
Sep 21, 2009
steve kloppenburg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Round 2--UPDATE: Deadline extended (and new contest previewed)
"I am going to try again tomorrow morning. I certainally don't expect to beat that time but I have to get this running better. I tried last friday but I increased the gain too much and it was an epeleptic fit up there ;-)"
Sep 20, 2009
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