Recent content by sdtag

HD WOW! 116g thats too heavy! try it on a hex haha GJH yes to both. I balance my props and I played with all kinds of values for distance. everywhere from 1 foot to 10 feet. 2 feet gave me the most reliable operation. But looking at 2 feet, then counting 8 times in 2 seconds... a lot can happen...

I got it all working pretty well. The answer was to have it looking for 2 feet 8 times in 2 seconds. If all the answers match, lower the gear. It worked, but there were 2 issues that developed. 1. this stuff reduced my flight time by 25%. I think it was because the servos have to keep the gear...

I found out that the cheap little ultrasonic sensors are "seeing" rotor wash sometimes. That's why they false trigger when flying, and never false trigger when I carry it around and test it. I need to add some code to look, wait a second and look again, and if the two answer match, then act. I'm...

still working on it but I had my maiden flight today. I am getting some false triggers.

I received my landing gear fast - 2 weeks on the speed boat from China! Needless to say I have been consumed these last few days, learning this Arduino stuff. It turns out these Arduino's can drive a servo directly. I downloaded sketches (programs) for the ultrasonic sensor and for the servos...

I got my Arduino stuff today. Man this is great. there's a whole other world out there. 2 to 3 hours of play time and I have bread boarded and downloaded schematics and "sketches" (their programs) from the internet and I have this ultrasonic sensor working. I can't get it to 10 feet, I think...

I know there is no good reason for a retractable landing gear on my Phantom 2 Vision Plus, other than I think it looks cool with the gear up. I ordered a kit on Ebay and it's coming on the slow boat from China. The kit I ordered uses the original stock landing gear and adds some hinges and...

he helped me out also. I started with a hundred dollar quad and wanted something better. Neil pointed me to DJI. I bought the best one at the time, last March. I bought the Phantom 2 Vision Plus. One month later DJI released the Phantom 3! haha story of my life. But I still love my P2V+. I...

I filmed a company picnic for a friend of mine. Long Beach, CA 9/19/15

look up Prodrenalin by prodad. It's in Germany. I am in Southern California. Prodad has an English version. It's on sale right now for 40 bucks. Prodad also has a program called de-fisher. I think this does the same thing but I think Prodrenalin does more and costs less. It also has a stabilizer...

I bought a udi/rc quad and taught myself to fly with that. About 120 bucks and it has a small video camera so you can get a taste of flight videos. No gps so it is a bit challenging to fly. But a lot of fun. Like Jackson said the hardest part to learn is when it is coming back towards you, the...

you got closer than I did. You weren't afraid of getting hit? Here's mine from Norwalk, CA: P2V+

I found a dam in Fullerton, but since this is in Southern California there's no dam water. Well a trickle maybe. Here's one for you guys in the UK; ever see a roundabout with one entrance? haha

is that ATTI? I have GPS, ATTI, and manual modes

haha thats exactly how I felt - I thought I knew how to fly haha it wasn't me flying at all, it was gps. take away my training wheels and I fall down which brings up the question... if anything bad happens in a normal flight my last resort is to go into manual mode and fly out. If I'm already...