Blogs

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

Join diydrones

Comments

  • S11D336B August 1, 2010 at 6:42pm
    @John Arne Birkeland.

    Thank you for your interest! The position estimation filter is a KF home brew of mine. It works pretty well in most instances, but can become the victim of center point drift in certain situations (e.g. high vibration environments). We are working on a full blown EKF implementation which will substantially improve this. Additionally we are about to launch a new board with all digital sensors which will give us finer resolution and further improve these calculations.
  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland July 30, 2010 at 8:55am
    @S11D336B: Fast reading trough the RCG thread it looks like you have spent a lot of time developing the system, and it shows in the hover stability. Did you ever get around to implementing Kalman or is it 'home brewed'?
  • AVS July 30, 2010 at 8:24am
    It's a great frame for an APM with IMU
  • S11D336B July 30, 2010 at 8:06am
    You're right, not a basic stamp. Good luck with all of your projects guys, there is always a lot of interesting discussion here and a lot of smart people.
  • AVS July 30, 2010 at 8:02am
    Hey guys are you sure that isn't the voice of a younger brother concentrating on filming?

    Don't take this the wrong way, all your comments would still be an accurate generalisation :)
  • Scott James July 30, 2010 at 6:56am
    Gotta love the female admiration for our hobby :)
  • AVS July 30, 2010 at 6:55am
    Martin. The 1 hour milestone will be a lot of fun :)
  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer July 30, 2010 at 6:51am
    @Scott yes I picked up on that as well ;-)
  • AVS July 30, 2010 at 5:09am
    All sizes of quad suck power and have very short flight times. They seem like a waste of time and money but this one can lift a useful load and that changes the game for me! Great machine. I will be building one as soon as I find the time. Thanks for the post
  • Scott James July 30, 2010 at 4:46am
    I just love the enthusiasm of the Wife/Girlfriend @1:18.
    You can just tell she is thinking "Come on... hurry up with your stupid helicopter crap!"
    Meanwhile... all the guys that are watching are thinking "Wow, how cool is that!"

    Hmmmmmm.........It's just like being at my house! :)
This reply was deleted.