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wow, its was great to see the shaddows come together, you knew it was going to happen , moments before the heli had come so close

http://youtu.be/fTJNPcBU9xU

Thanks Bart, yes have gotten involved with a few "personalities" over at RCgroups, its where the trolls tend to hang out. Thankfully there seems to be none of that here, a very good community has built up :)

I ended up in a group selected to test this, i understand that my posting it may not be a popular decision, but the quad itself is worthy of a review (not minding the posturing and politics) First flight of the T580 Assembly time was 10-15 minutes, very straight forward. (waited longer to...

More like this http://www.cybertechuav.com.au/-Overview,85-.html i hear you on the flat surface, possibly being undesireable, i guess thats what experimentation is all about, so a nice bubble shaped center, that exhibits no lift in any direction enclosing all the gear, and the motors/rotors out...

Interesting discussion. Definately think the keeping it all compact is the way forward, current quad design has the cameras up close to the centre line, and i am playing with a body design thats about 50mm thick, and 800mm overall diameter, with radius edges it should not be two bad in the...

Screen shots of the configurator

argh ! laptop had a spaz and lost the edit to the last post ! I am about to tweak the settings on the other laptop, so will take some screen shots of the different pages in the configurator

will get some video when i get a chance too :) so far its been lots of hops in the dining room tweaking settings (raining outside) Its 7 am here, rain has stoped, birds starting to chirp, so might be able to get some from the flying field. Allot of work ? hmm, dunno, certainly alot more than...

progress. First - using the original ardupilot code, used Superstable mode at the field last weekend, all went well, untill it got its "yaw on" and decided turning right was what it wanted to do - at the time, had no idea what went wrong. This week, managed to get the ArdupirateNG code...

I know Dan is keen to get into the multirotor market, and i am sure when ordering 4 or more he would do a deal here are the unwound ones http://www.gobrushless.com/shop/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=MC2510-KIT and heres some i did for a friends tricopter (3 diferent colors :) )

got superstable mode working, needs tuning as i run on 4S , but passed the 'dining room" test

these are what you want http://www.gobrushless.com/shop/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=MD2510-LE talk to Dan, tell him i sent ya (will try to talk him into a deal, i know Dan well, have delt with him for 2 years) they are machined in the USA, and hand wound by Dan using the best bearings...

it flies - almost as good as my KKuk board and harder to tune............ but its early days :)

last nite , grabed the ardupilot and set it up. this is after the firmware was uploaded the day before. Setup consisted of having it flat and level. fliping a dip switch for x-mode inputting 3 offsets for the acelerometers calibrating the transmitter channels now she should be ready to fly, in...

let us know how well it works. with no auto-leveling, is it a bit pricey compared to the kkuk and muliwii-numchuck-playstation-cantremember boards that do the same function ? guessing the hoverfly is a much higher quality

My head hurt when I first started reading on what I had to do, and i feel the same as you "man, not something else i have to learn" Once the firmware was done (took 5 minutes once I knew what to do) the rest is easy peasy lemon squeezy. If someone sold it, pre soldered, firmware loaded, its as...

well, got the ardupilot soldered up, gps and magnetometer installed, software compiled, uploaded and running - all thats left is transmitter setup and flight test :-) had a friend on skype who has just done the same setup step me thru the arduino programming/compiling. Im computer savvy, but...

I tried FPV two weeks ago, im short sighted, and was fine without my glasses on. Not sure what the effect would be if you are long sighted, but most goggles do have an adjustment of sorts

this is cool http://code.google.com/p/ardupirates/wiki/ThePiratesCofin