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replace broken aluminum arms

Started this discussion. Last reply by Andre Moraes Nov 3, 2010. 4 Replies

I got the beta frame and used the long aluminum arms but in my first flight I moved the stick up, the copter flew really high. I panic and reverse the throttle what caused the copter to fall and…Continue

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Andre Moraes commented on Melih Karakelle's blog post New OpenFGS Ground Station
"I could help with the .NET translation too but I learn how to program in pascal so I guess I can help with the delphi code too. Delphi has a free compiler these days?"
Dec 20, 2010
Andre Moraes commented on Paul Mather's blog post Closed-source developer forced open-source
"Hello Happy, There're ways to also encrypt the .net .exe file so reflector can't even open. The other program that was mentioned will make it almost impossible to read but the combination of both it's what it makes really hard to read…"
Nov 11, 2010
Andre Moraes replied to Andre Moraes's discussion replace broken aluminum arms
"great news guys thanks"
Nov 3, 2010
Eric Smith replied to Andre Moraes's discussion replace broken aluminum arms
"Yeah the aluminum towel rack bars at home depot are really cheap and come in a variety of lenghs"
Nov 3, 2010

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Sebastian Gralla replied to Andre Moraes's discussion replace broken aluminum arms
"10x10mm aluminium square profiles should work"
Nov 3, 2010

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Chris Anderson replied to Andre Moraes's discussion replace broken aluminum arms
"The ArduCopter store will be selling "crash kits" of replacement parts in a few weeks..."
Nov 2, 2010
Andre Moraes posted a discussion

replace broken aluminum arms

I got the beta frame and used the long aluminum arms but in my first flight I moved the stick up, the copter flew really high. I panic and reverse the throttle what caused the copter to fall and broken one arm.Any ideas how to replace it locally, like Lowe's or Home Depot?Thanks, AM.See More
Nov 2, 2010
Andre Moraes replied to Robert Beatty's discussion Can't get ArduCopter off the ground
"Thanks Jani, I revise everything and discover that one motor was rotating in opposite direction as it was supposed. Copter took off but I was afraid of hit the pergola in my back yard, perhaps firsts flight it's better to be in a nice open…"
Nov 2, 2010
Andre Moraes replied to Robert Beatty's discussion Can't get ArduCopter off the ground
"Hey guys... Perhaps I've a problem in my DIP switches. What are the DIP switches that I'm supposed to use and recommended settings for the dx7?"
Oct 25, 2010
Andre Moraes replied to Robert Beatty's discussion Can't get ArduCopter off the ground
"they were never showing 0 some were changing from -1, 0, 1 close to 0 I follow this instructions here: To be honest I could not find good instructions about calibration in the quad wiki, it doesn't say what it should be or what to aim for…"
Oct 25, 2010
Andre Moraes replied to Robert Beatty's discussion Can't get ArduCopter off the ground
"Jani, I'm having some problems too to get off the ground. It doesn't go up leveled it starts to go to one direction, if I remember correctly, it goes left. I tune the PID Settings using the configurator trying to make most be = 0 and…"
Oct 25, 2010
Andre Moraes commented on Jani Hirvinen's photo
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ArduCopter - Frame parts

"It's a nice video. Dan the bloggie has video out so can be used for FPV"
Oct 21, 2010
Andre Moraes commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Tutorial: Programming your uBlox GPS module
"flying toh, are you talking about this file? http://api.ning.com/files/IP6T9fK7m8qm3PR0B3N9atWo7rKrdPndUAyasRRiAajhklDoWrOWcswfuJvpS3USjRnClIB0*6a5yX*x3t7V2CQRJF-up3zo/ublox5_helix_v11.txt"
Sep 27, 2010
Andre Moraes commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Tutorial: Programming your uBlox GPS module
"Chris thanks for the information, what about the thing about checksum error is that normal?"
Sep 22, 2010
Andre Moraes commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Tutorial: Programming your uBlox GPS module
"I'd the ublox for a quite some time after all I used the manufacturer program to upload firmware 6.0 and configuration so the values appears immediately after start the serial monitor"
Sep 21, 2010
Andre Moraes commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Tutorial: Programming your uBlox GPS module
"I've this back after upload the app "GPS_UBLOX_test" gps: Lat:GPS UBLOX library test gps: Lat:29.5844135284 Lon:-95.3655929565 Alt:16.0799999237 GSP:0.64 COG:124.0000000000 SAT:0 FIX:1 TIM:196621250 GPS_UBLOX: checksum error gps:…"
Sep 21, 2010

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car, airplane, and others uav projects
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At 7:20pm on September 7, 2010, Rafael Araújo said…
Ainda estou na fase de testes e montagem, ainda não fez nenhum voo. Ainda não medi peso nem nada até porque ainda não terminei a montagem, mas acho que deve ter quase 1kg até agora.

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