Arducopter hexa flies on its own !

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Made a video to present our club on the club's website : www.diestmodelclub.be

The idea is to show visitors what they can expect to see at our club and maybe give them a taste of the atmosphere. Also the goal was to just have fun and in that last we certainly succeeded ;-)

Almost all aireal footage was shot with my arducopter hexa, carrying a kodak ZX-1 HD camera with live-out streamed to a 7" TFT screen bolted to my transmitter.

Hope you enjoy !

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u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Topic: Arducopter hexa flies on its own ! Posted: 11/Nov/2011 at 8:52am
	Made a video to present our club on the club's website : www.diestmodelclub.be The idea is to show visitors what they can expect to see at our club and maybe give them a taste of the atmosphere. Also the goal was to just have fun and in that last we certainly succeeded ;-) Almost all aireal footage was shot with my arducopter hexa, carrying a kodak ZX-1 HD camera with live-out streamed to a 7" TFT screen bolted to my transmitter. Hope you enjoy !

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 30/Oct/2011 at 9:35pm
	Yeah, the brain is rather expensive, especially the sensorboard. But ofcourse it has a little more on it then just the 3 gyro's of a HK quad board and a whole lot more possibilities. There's accelerometers, barometer, tempmeter, 16MB onboard flash for logging, compass, gps, multiplexer, usb connection, ... The hardware is open source, so maybe someday it will be cloned, or it may already be cloned, as many arduino boards are.

marcospratas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (PT) USERID: 268420 Hobbyking Addict Joined: 20/May/2010 Location: Lisbon,Portugal Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Posted: 04/Oct/2011 at 7:33pm
	very very nice $250.00 .... Edited by marcospratas - 04/Oct/2011 at 7:37pm

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 04/Oct/2011 at 6:07am
	I got a professor and some assistants at my university crazy enough about multicopter for them to decide that the next big "Projects & Design" project would be for the students to build a multicopter. Today I gave a little demo and some explanation on multicopters on the kick-off session of this practicum. Students were quite enthousiast about it and already came up with some nice ideas. In a few weeks we'll be ordering some stuff :-)

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 04/Oct/2011 at 5:59am
	Latest video of testing autonomous flight (and other flightmodes). This was really fun testing and finetuning to get this far with an open source project. And more is still to come !

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 04/Oct/2011 at 5:56am
	I mounted some leds on my arducopter and did a little reprogramming of the brain to have different flashing patterns, controllable with a channel on my transmitter. First mode is rotating leds with speed going up with throttle, other patterns in second half of video. Plan do to some evening shows at events at our club. Edited by u4eake - 04/Oct/2011 at 6:03am

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 21/Jul/2011 at 4:11am
	Finally altitude hold is working fine on my arducopter hexa : It's a terrain following radar now !

magnusvr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (SE) USERID: 296074 Bargain Addict! Joined: 01/Dec/2009 Location: Sweden Online Status: Offline Posts: 88	Quote Reply Posted: 06/May/2011 at 9:55pm
	What beautiful scenery! I can recommend this anti vibration plate I got on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTI-VIBRATION-camera-mount-helicopter-airplan-HL500-/110683772128?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c54454e0 Search for "Anti vibration camera mount", you'll find one or two versions. Also, here's a video I made this weekend with my tri and this plate, with a GoPro HD. KR Magnus

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 06/May/2011 at 5:31pm
	Yeah, the wind wasn't too constant (about 2-3 beaufort) but I think most swinging is comming from my camera mount. It was basically hanging in rubber bands, which does not seem to be so good for stabilisation.

trumpy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (AU) USERID: 386740 HobbyKing aficionado Joined: 21/Dec/2009 Location: AU the Murray! Online Status: Offline Posts: 2983	Quote Reply Posted: 06/May/2011 at 4:22pm
	Love the guy who nervously steps off the path as you get closer Looks like you have very good altitude and GPS lock Was it a little gusty ? seems to have some oscillation , spectacular footage tho and a very nice set-up !
	Trumpy! Does anybody know how to cancel a bid on e-Bay? I put in a bid for a “Cowboy Outfit” and it seems I’m only six minutes away from owning the Australian Labor Government !