Luca Passone

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Building the LP-Hexa

Posted by Luca Passone on August 20, 2013 at 7:12pm

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Luca Passone replied to Frank Al's discussion Balancing propellors and motors

"Actually... what is the list of things we need to buy, and how should we connect them? :)
Just these 2?
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9836https://www.sparkfun.com/prod...
And which cables to connect everything up to the computer!? I don't…"

Luca Passone replied to Frank Al's discussion Balancing propellors and motors

"Hi!
I would recommend changing a little the main article to mention that you are using a new board.... like one of the other members I bought the Razor which is apparently useless now...

Thanks for sharing though."

Luca Passone replied to Matt Gunn's discussion Formula for determining resolution (cm/pix)?

"Over a year late, but since this is the first thing that appeared to me on Google, maybe this can help:
http://www.canon.com/bctv/calculator/calculator3.html
By the way, don't know how that graph can help if it doesn't show focal length."

Luca Passone replied to Chris F.'s discussion Quadrocopter / Octocopter?

"Well, an octocopter has twice the motors, twice the ESCs and twice the number of props to balance! If you need to solder each bullet connector on your ESC, that's either 5 x 4 = 20 or 5*8 = 40 soldering jobs to do! Also, although an octo has more…"

Luca Passone commented on Tom Mahood's blog post A composite folding H-quad

"Nice work! Sorry it decided to bite back its creator! Hopefully no long lasting damage!"

Luca Passone commented on Acorn's blog post My First DIY Quadrocopter - Part Three (The Maiden Voyage)

"that's fantastic! :) Having just built my own wooden multirotor I can feel how happy you must have been! Just one note, one motor was spinning for a while longer than all the others... was it because the others caught/cut the grass?"

Luca Passone commented on Acorn's blog post My first DIY Quadrocopter - Part Two (The Hybridization)

"Love the use of lego!! Looks great!"

Luca Passone commented on Luca Passone's blog post Building the LP-Hexa

"Thanks for the info Acorn! I wasn't sure if the wood was going to split or not. I should have mention, this frame is pine!
Thanks for the compliment too! :)"

Luca Passone posted a blog post

Building the LP-Hexa

I decided to embark on the scratch build journey after putting together a DJI f450 kit. I love that quadcopter, but it was time to do my own thing.My purpose on this journey was to design something of my own, a design I could call my own and I…

Luca Passone commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post T3 Season 2, The Model

"I am thinking my University's Grand Mosque!"

Luca Passone commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post T3 Season 2, The Model

"Oh, one more thing, what are the deliverables? Videos of the flights? Log files? the point cloud? The pictures? All of the above?"

Luca Passone commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post T3 Season 2, The Model

"Can we use multiple batteries and have mutliple entries?!"

Luca Passone commented on Colin's blog post Ardupilot Mega Twinstar Build

"How do you connect the 2 motors? Are they separate outputs on the APM?

Thanks!"

Luca Passone posted a discussion

Can ArduPlane yaw by changing throttle on two engined models?

I actually found it quite difficult to formulate the question.Basically, if I have a model with 2 motors, can APM be instructed to give more power to one motor if I want to yaw?Thanks!P.S. This is what I have in mind