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T3 season two, the multirotor one.

Posted by Gary Mortimer on February 22, 2013 at 5:30am

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Its been a while so lets try again. Had a hangout with Chris and we briefly spoke about the next T3 round. Chris will work on a top prize ;-)

The mission is simple, get airborne climb to 20m 

Fly a cube with 50m sides, pausing for one minute at each corner, so your flight time cannot be anything less than 8 minutes..... Bonus points if you can stay longer at each corner....

The neatest cube KML wins.

If you can do this with a 3D aircraft I feel you would have a very strong chance of winning!

I will close the competition on April the 14th. I will be looking at where you are flying very closely. Please don't try this in public places or within 500m of any building / road. 

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  • Norbert Machinek April 14, 2013 at 3:19am

    Good job, Bruno - and excellent results for someone with only 3 months of experience in RC!


    btw: your kmz file ends up over West-Africa. When I type in your coordinates it ends up in the Mediterranian Sea, South of Sardinia?

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    David Anders April 14, 2013 at 1:36am

    Nice work Bruno! (:

    Unfortunately, the weather was against me this weekend (20km/h gusty winds and rain), so I'm unable to enter this one.  Will get in early for the next one that's for sure.  But congrats to all that entered and well done on the amazing sky art. (:

  • Scott Berfield April 13, 2013 at 11:44pm

    Is the AQ hardware available form any US distributors?

  • Enrico Bazan April 13, 2013 at 10:13pm

    Hi Larry, I'm curious. Which are the farming applications you have in mind (if you can share)?

    Thank You

       Enrico

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    Richard Boyhan April 13, 2013 at 7:02pm
    Excellent job Bruno. I don't know about you, but I've had a blast competing. I'm looking forward to next challenge. Again congratulations on a great job.
  • Scott Berfield April 13, 2013 at 5:03pm
    Very nice. FYI, for planning the mission, I just had Mission Planner generate a "circle" with a radius of 35 meters with four waypoints. This gave me a square with sides of app. 50 meters. Entered the lat and long into excel, then planned out the steps to draw that square 70 meters up then 20 meters up plus 2 ups and 2 downs at the edges. Only repeats are horizontals to save battery. Entered it into MP and now am watching marble sized hail come down. So it is all theory for now. ;)
  • Rob_Lefebvre April 13, 2013 at 4:35pm

    Nice work Bruno.  You should be proud of that, newbie or not.  But the fact that you did it with only 3 months RC experience, even better.

    Just successfully running the mission at all demonstrates you've achieved a decent level of knowledge.

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    Bruno Guerreiro April 13, 2013 at 4:34pm

    Well, there was a typo in the KML link so here it is: 

    http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~bguerreiro/arducopter/2013-04-13%2019-...

    http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/%7Ebguerreiro/arducopter/2013-04-13%2019-02%201.kmz
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    Bruno Guerreiro April 13, 2013 at 4:29pm

    Hello,

    I recently (this January) bought my first Arducopter Hexa B (indeed, my first RC vehicle). I've been learning to configure it and fly in some of the most common flight modes.

    Although I'm not trying to compete with all you guys, who have tons of experience and neatly tuned vehicles, I'm just leaving here my entry to this challenge, as a small contribution to what I believe to me the most valuable asset of DIYDrones.com: the community.

    The KML file is available here, and an snapshot of my Arducopter's (almost) cubic trajectory is shown below. :D

    3689517366?profile=original

    I used Matlab to compute the (Lat,Long,Alt) coordinates from a basic (x,y,z) coordinates, and to generate a mission file compatible with Mission Planner (or MAVLink...). My maximum flight time is around 13 minutes, so I just spent 20 seconds in each waypoint (some were repeated) plus 5 seconds to turn the copter to the next waypoint before going for it.

    Like some before me, I'm just happy to enter this competition and to be challenged to learn the details of APM.

    Best,

    Bruno Guerreiro

  • Scott Berfield April 13, 2013 at 2:27pm

    Well, thunderstorms this weekend so I am out - should have gotten off my butt last week when we had one nice day. Still going to try it when we finally get the weather for it - if by then I can get the field without a bunch of soccer playing kids on it. I THINK my little quad has enough duration with a 5000 mAH battery to just make it through the whole thing.

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