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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...

more like a hard landing. I scraped some props, that's about it. I just had to try manual mode in my P2V+. It took me by surprise - I kind of figured it would. That's why I was only 30 feet up over grass Now I know how responsive it is I'll try it again. I'll bet you can flip these, not that I...

ok I had another thought. I was on another site and I saw someone making a pretty tight circle using way points. I have played with way points and gs a little but not much. I'm still on vacation 2,000 miles away from home and my quad, but I want to try this when I get home. If I make a flight...

I watched that video again, thank you, but doing it that way using home lock the circle has to be huge. the 10 to 20 meter home point bubble ... 20 meters is about 50-60 feet right? 60 foot radius = 120 foot diameter circle. Much too far away to video a show car. I think I need to be much closer...

now that you mention that I think I have heard this before. I have to set the home point where I want the center of the circle to be right? I have tried CL but I really haven't tried HL yet. On vacation right now in the big apple. I'll try this out when we get home next weekend. Thanks again.

on to my next project... One of my neighbors has a nice car he takes to shows and stuff. I told him I could make a video fly by of his car with my quad, fly up to it, fly circles around it, etc. Wow, then I tried it. It is kind of hard to fly a circle and keep the camera aimed in to the center...