John Holdsworth
  • 61, Male
  • Chepstow, Gwent
  • United Kingdom
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John Holdsworth replied to Monroe's discussion Control Software in the group DIYDrones - CNC Project
"Perhaps you should look at some of the other CNC fora. Mach3 and EMC2 are G code interpreters..they take GCode and drive the stepper motors or servos that make the cutting head move appropriately. There are three basic functions, CAD, CAM and the…"
23 hours ago
Tom in ON replied to John Holdsworth's discussion How do I turn on the airspeed sensor in ardupilot mega version 2 beta using the mission planner?
May 7, 2011
Tom in ON replied to John Holdsworth's discussion How do I turn on the airspeed sensor in ardupilot mega version 2 beta using the mission planner?
"Airspeed sensor from DIY Drones connected to APM, reading good voltage, but in "test" mode in Mission Planner still shows "disabled". Tried to reset,maybe it auto-detect as it should. Looks like I need to install the Arduino…"
May 7, 2011

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Darren replied to John Holdsworth's discussion How do I turn on the airspeed sensor in ardupilot mega version 2 beta using the mission planner?
"right now, its not a config item you can enable yet in CLI or on GCS, So you will need to use custom APM_Config.h and upload (with arduino) to the APM. Here is the line you will need to add to APM_Config.h   #define AIRSPEED_SENSOR  ENABLED"
Mar 21, 2011
John Holdsworth posted a discussion

How do I turn on the airspeed sensor in ardupilot mega version 2 beta using the mission planner?

the software loads ok but with the airspeed pressure sensor disabled..how do I enable it without using the arduino development tools?
Mar 21, 2011
John Holdsworth commented on ionut's blog post Biggest UAV to date-Russian Buran
"whats this then? a Buran in a museum...http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en..in the late nineties I worked for a billing company who had a software engineering centre in Moscow...filled with rocket scientists (yes really!!)..who had been working on…"
Mar 12, 2011
John Holdsworth replied to Errol Tazbaz's discussion keeping Camera looking Nadir
"your Cessna 172 is pretty agile....."
Jan 25, 2011

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Jean-Louis Naudin left a comment for John Holdsworth
"Hello John, You will find the Sonicliner blog with the ArduPilot at: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/the-asp-xr01-uav-with-the detailled photos are published: http://diydrones.com/photo/albums/the-flight-of-asp-xr01-uav I have publised all…"
Jan 17, 2011
John Holdsworth replied to Danny Lombard's discussion RCCAD
"I use devcad/devfus and profili2"
Jan 16, 2011
John Holdsworth commented on Peter Koppendorfer's blog post NEW PAN-TILT System
"the bearing is from a lazy susan set up , that is a rotating table top tray...I've tried them out, but not as successfyully as peter..a source in the UK is http://www.axminster.co.uk/triangle-lazy-susan-bearing-prod20991/?src=froogle use…"
Oct 16, 2010
John Holdsworth replied to Brett Glossop's discussion Can anyone suggest a good path for 5.8GHz tx/rx for UAV telemetry?
"if you want to go 5.8 (against the advice here) then try BEVRC (birds eye view) web site... www.bevrc.com"
Jun 1, 2010
John Holdsworth replied to mark's discussion I've never flawn an RC plane before. What simulator should I get to start out?
"try this ..www.flying-model-simulator.com its free and you can make a simple interface cable to the pc which uses the audio port If you live anywhere near South Wales..glad to let you train with a real model"
Dec 7, 2009

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John..I'm retired
Hometown:
Warrington

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At 6:05am on January 17, 2011,
Developer
Jean-Louis Naudin
said…

Hello John,


You will find the Sonicliner blog with the ArduPilot at:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/the-asp-xr01-uav-with-the


detailled photos are published:
http://diydrones.com/photo/albums/the-flight-of-asp-xr01-uav


I have publised all the source code for that I have tested on my Sonicliner aka ASP-XR01 with the ArduPilot here:

http://ardupilotdev.googlecode.com/files/ArduPilot_ASPXR01_V246.zip


I hope this will help you,
Regards, Jean-Louis

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