Gender
Male
About
Location
Albany, CA
About Me:
Love planes, trains, and automobiles.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Been flying model planes for 40 years. Started with line control, moved onto R/C, and started experimenting with telemetry about 5 years ago. My sons and I have flown competitively and won a purse or two. UAV could make us even faster.
Hometown:
San Jose
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"Can you show how it will attach to an iPhone?"
"Hi Majid,
I'm having a similar problem and am trying to get to the bottom of it by comparing your configuration with mine.
BTW, I admire the foam cushion design.
Can you share a little more of your thinking on why you reduced the RATE_PIT_P from the…"
I'm having a similar problem and am trying to get to the bottom of it by comparing your configuration with mine.
BTW, I admire the foam cushion design.
Can you share a little more of your thinking on why you reduced the RATE_PIT_P from the…"
"I believe I have read the Manual thoroughly and have not found a complete key to the parameters. So, I have experimented and parsed the code to learn their effects. I also have not found a detailed key to the log files. I figured documenting the…"
"I bought a Castle BEC a few months ago and I've been staring at it :) wondering: Is the BEC necessary because the ESC is designed poorly? Why doesn't someone make an ESC that isolates the motor pulse circuit from the BEC?"
"I really am of a mixed on this. On the one hand, the amount of current that the ESC must supply to run the servos, APM, Rx, and Xbee is trivial compared to the motor's draw. (This points to quality, not quantity.) But the fact that longer servo…"
"Warren, I agree with you on the quality of the current being the big factor. However, capacity comes to mind... when I removed the aileron servos (which together have leads about a meter long) and attached a single lightweight servo with no…"
"I realized something that I should have picked up sooner: When you install an APM in a model plane that calls for, say, a 30 amp ESC, you may need to increase the size of the ESC. I was recently getting some strange bugs (servos moving erratically…"
"I just received this from the AMA:
http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe55167874670d7f7d1d&m=fec815777..."
http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe55167874670d7f7d1d&m=fec815777..."
"The AMA magazine, Model Aviation has an editorial on UAS this month. It's positive, echoing points I've heard on this forum -- that inherently useful and instructive technology can't be abandoned because it can be used for evil.
In the AMA, there…"
In the AMA, there…"
"Hi Julian,
The answer to all of your questions is Yes, with the possible exception of the GPS rate. I have used the APM to log trips by train, bicycle, and car. Just as you suggest, you can power the APM with a laptop connected to its USB…"
The answer to all of your questions is Yes, with the possible exception of the GPS rate. I have used the APM to log trips by train, bicycle, and car. Just as you suggest, you can power the APM with a laptop connected to its USB…"
"BTW, that's a SiFR III GPS shown in the picture (available through Sparkfun). I tested it in place of the MediaTek, hoping for faster GPS locks. (It cuts the lock time roughly in half to about 35 seconds, though it's 4x bigger so if weight is an…"
I settled on an eFlite Taylorcraft as a good platform for testing the APM. The cabin is large and the wing has a window on top. I left the cabin side windows out to so I could reach in to flip the CLI switch and insert a USB cable when needed.I…
