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Peter Seddon commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Announcing ArduCopter, the merger of the ArduPilot and AeroQuad projects!'
I did try the code under trunk/arducopter which also calls itself 1.4 and that seems to work quite well - haven't flown for any time as I need to do some tuning to calm things down a bit. The Configurator under trunk seesm to have the majority of fu…
on Monday
Peter Seddon commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 'Sometimes we need reminding 1917 cutting edge'
They are flying a train of three Cody (aka Buffalo Bill) kites that Cody also used for man lifting purposes. I have recently relocated my version of the Cody kite (it was very stable and with good lifting capability at a good steep line angle) made…
on Sunday
Peter Seddon commented on jasonshort's blog post 'Ardupilot 2.7 Final'
When I extract the files in Win 7 I get errors regarding the encoding (?) of folders and a red exclamation mark against the ArduPilot folder. Any suggestions Peter
on Saturday
Peter Seddon commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Announcing ArduCopter, the merger of the ArduPilot and AeroQuad projects!'
I see ArducopterNG (version 1.4) has been uploaded. Could we have an update as to what it is and how usable? It clearly uses the new program architecture and has lots of new code!! Peter
on Saturday
Peter Seddon replied to Andy Gongora's discussion 'Quad vs Hexa vs Octo -copter. (Radial and coaxial) Advantages-Disadvantages?'
Ok here is some real data from a Tricopter and Quad just as they get flying (there will be some ground effect help as I couldn't lift off and clear the ground: Tri: Ready to fly weight 825g Lift off power 135W (at 10.1A from 3S battery) 42cms motor…
August 24
Peter Seddon replied to Davide Sandonà's discussion 'Motors and battery for a quadcopter'
This thread my get you to motor info quicker http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1097355 Peter
August 22
Peter Seddon replied to Davide Sandonà's discussion 'Motors and battery for a quadcopter'
Have a look on RCGroups http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=716870 a very long thread but it has covered motor types, thrust etc. The frame I have just built weighs in at 1.4Kg ready to fly (battery, motors, ESC's, etc). I am using KDA2…
August 22
Peter Seddon commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Announcing ArduCopter, the merger of the ArduPilot and AeroQuad projects!'
Thanks Jani - I am very impatient and I read about people who have the Arducopter flying and I'm jealous. Whilst mine lifts off reasonably flat there is a fair amount of yaw and once airborne the motors start to accelerate despite me not adding any…
August 22

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Peter Seddon

The Rise of The Geek Dad

Under this title there is an article in the Weekend section of The Times (UK) newspaper today with a quarter page picture of Chris Anderson and Daniel.


Well done Chris!



Peter




Posted on May 8, 2010 at 5:22am — 9 Comments

Peter Seddon

Which Ublox GPS?

Came across this post on the Mikrokopter forum and wondered how this might affect the Ardupilot fitted with the Ublox LEA5-H: " we did our tests with the LEA5H to use it with the NaviCtrl. We couldn't find a solution to get it work. The data rate of the LEA5 is not constant. (depends on how many satelites are received). Statement from ublox: this is a typical behavior, if you use refresh rates below 1 Hz.

This is the reason, why we use the LEA4H for our MKGPS.

So - LEA5H is not recommended to… Continue

Posted on August 11, 2009 at 3:05am —

Peter Seddon

Features for next version of Ardupilot

Developing and especially testing hardware and software is never easy and by opening the process to others, solutions can often be identified very quickly and development move on more quickly.

I don't know how you went about developing the A/Pilot and I couldn't find any threads about future features so excuse me if I am talking out of turn but I and I am sure others would like to be involved in the process in terms of features for the next version, writing code and testing. Would that be pract… Continue

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 6:39am — 2 Comments

Peter Seddon

Ardupilot 2 Hardware Block Diagram ver 2

As I can't see how to add a new file to an existing blogpost I have added this new post for the update of my hardware block diagram.

Ardupilot 2 block diag 1.1.pdf

Posted on July 21, 2009 at 5:00am — 5 Comments

Peter Seddon

Ardupilot 2 hardware diagram

A large number of you have contributed a great deal to this effort so here is my humble offering - a block diagram of the hardware. I have deliberately left out the power regulators and tried to show just the key signal lines.

Hope it is of benefit to someone!!

Peter

Ardupilot 2.pdf

Posted on July 20, 2009 at 10:30am — 11 Comments

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At 12:59pm on August 20, 2010, Norbert Machinek said…
Hi Peter,
thx for your message. I'd only use his vid as an interim.
I'll make my own as soon as I got time. But time is very rare atm. ;-)

Norbert

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