About

Gender

Male


Location

Saalfeld, Thüringen


About Me:

I like FPV and use autopilots for backup. also diy Emotors and ESC in big- and lil-scale Made my hobby to earn the benjamins: Since 2007 engineering for electric tracktion on cars, trucks, mining/offshore-gear and ships.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I love to play with UAV, also jump in the air with paragliders and do a lot of PPG. Since all this systems need to be monitored and debuged I relay on the data output from autopilots. Also very handy to visualise datas in QGC.


Hometown:

saalfeld


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wurpfel updated their profile
Jan 6, 2021
wurpfel commented on Melih Karakelle's blog post 36x Zoom Camera Daylight and IR 850nm Test
"I have a 27x cam mounted in a plane sideway. you got sharp pictures only under APcontrol, but the details are fantastic. my has a sonyHAD chip, very impressive picture-quality"
Sep 29, 2010
wurpfel replied to Austin Duff's discussion Long Range RC Equipment?
"hi folkz

you can use the XBEEs in both variants: 2G4 for testing RC-like "in sight" and the longrange 900 or 868XBEE for telemetry and waypointsetting.. works for me up to 5mi but some nasty 10% dutycycle...

or control when in sight the UAV with…"
Aug 22, 2010
wurpfel commented on AKRCGUY's blog post DIY Drones Store CMOS Camera?
"yes, that`s a "full monty" moorhuhn with a ardupilot and fpv. great to observe birds.


to glue the cam-PCB I drop hotmelt on the holes for the screws. so a saefty-breakline is established when something goes wrong. and I add a lil-keflarstring to…"
Jun 14, 2010
wurpfel commented on AKRCGUY's blog post DIY Drones Store CMOS Camera?
"I use hotglue to fix it on a servoarm.."
Jun 14, 2010
wurpfel commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Excellent tutorial on unbricking a corrupted ArduPilot
"take a look on AVR buttload, my prefered progger. the HW is a inexpencive AVR butterfly!

http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/ButtLoad.php

features
Unlike other programmers, ButtLoad allows you to store a complete application into the on board…"
Jun 6, 2010
wurpfel commented on fibrewire's blog post Variable Pitch Quad Rotor - M/UAV
"did you considre electric flight? they can regulate the power much better than mechanic!


for paragliders you will find electric powersystems, 25kg, 10kW and a 14s40Ah is enough to reach 1000m AGL. four will do the job as a quadcopter..


its no…"
Mar 15, 2010
wurpfel posted a blog post
hi folkzsomething is missing in the arduino-world ;-) yeah, a handy way from the bredboart to a eached shield. now fritzing.org enters. its a opensource routing programm.check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxhd4HKrWpg&feature=related
Mar 7, 2010
wurpfel replied to Natalius Kiedro's discussion AR7212: A programmable 12-channel receiver with autopilot extensions for those flying Spektrum DX7
"Hi folkz


ok, lesson learned!



the link was the start of the protocoll-decoding, and it`s polite to point out here in english ;-)
the know-how is fixed in the german-RCline-thread about a micro--6dof-system.
the main thing is to bind the satelite…"
Mar 6, 2010
wurpfel replied to Natalius Kiedro's discussion AR7212: A programmable 12-channel receiver with autopilot extensions for those flying Spektrum DX7
"hi folkz

the com with the sats arn`t very special. look here
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10571741&postcoun..."
Mar 5, 2010
wurpfel commented on Ahmad Usman's blog post Helicopter Based UAV
"when the heli move foreward it works, but stay on place wouldn`t work. you have to substitute the flaky GPS data with image-recognition of the ground or maybe a arduIMU with some sensors added will work on a heli.


look on the quadrocopter!"
Feb 21, 2010
wurpfel commented on wurpfel's blog post stylish autopilot-engage-switch
"the cam comes from SFE, all other gear is recycling from babyphones.

best for RCcompability is a 5G8 downlink, the ardustation-antennatracker points the LNApatch.
a 1/3"sonyHAD sensor offers best image quality, also BWnightvision in moonlight.."
Jan 24, 2010
wurpfel commented on wurpfel's blog post stylish autopilot-engage-switch
"hi folkz

the red-one deactivate the autopilot when you close the cover, as the biggest lever on the MC12 its offers best tactile feedback. also to open its need some muscles ;-) and the switch works only with a dedicated effort!

the nearest thing…"
Jan 24, 2010
wurpfel posted a blog post
have seen this at SFE, a must for my pimped MC12; a original-look-like missile switch cover ;-)gives a loudly click when pressed and prevent mistakes..
Jan 23, 2010
wurpfel posted a photo
I was glad to see that SFE has IT:missile switch covernow my ultimate-autopilot-engage-switch ;-)
Jan 23, 2010
wurpfel commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Reminder: Sparkfun Free Day Is Tomorrow @ 9am MST!!
"now its too late.. CONCLUDED"
Jan 7, 2010
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