....just wanna share some pix of all my KK2 BOARD PROTECTOR....after I smashed one on a bad crashed way way back,I don't fly without a board protector anymore.

Originally Posted by hangarace

Has anyone been able to use the flash tool and usbasp cable to program in win8? I finally got win7 working well, but not in win8.

I am running the usbasp tool on Windows 8 Consumer Preview and to do so I had to deactivate the 'signed drivers' feature. I've heard rumors that later versions of Windows 8 will not let you do this so you'll probably be stuck until someone makes a signed driver for the usbasp programmer.

...on my TRI

Originally Posted by brodjack

i agree 1.2 works just fine,even better with some Abusemark Escs.

http://youtu.be/c5aw6Zz9kyw

Nice flying! It made me kinda dizzy at one point, but otherwise I'm very impressed by your skills.

Originally Posted by kapteinkuk

Here is version 1.4
Changes:
1: SW LP-filter on the accelerometers.
2: Widened the correction limits to +-20 degrees.
3: Use accelerometer generated Euler angles instead of 3D vector generated angles for the correction check as suggested by Scolton. I think this one really did the trick.
4: Widened the vertical acceleration check to 0.5 - 1.5g.
5: It does not show the Euler angles on the safe screen until gyros has been calibrated to avoid confusion.
Updating from V1.3 to V1.4 does not change your settings.
Now it performs much better, it did not lose its UP direction at all, except for the special case of the toss test where the rotation rate exceeded the maximum that the gyros can handle. This will not happen during flight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QxAQCiF6m0
The two last clips is recovery from inverted free fall by just adding throttle from idle.

Congratulations! Nothing like a video to show how it's done.

Originally Posted by krobjenk

OK, so after flashing my board to v1.3, it is still doing the same thing. When lifting off, my tricopter wants to flip over to the right. I got all the values to zero on the reciever test which took all of my subtrim and regular trim to do.

With the props off, the left motor (M1) spins up really fast and then at and above half thr, the other two sound to spin up to the same speed?

I put the props back on and adjusted the trims so that it almost lifts off the ground level, but when doing so, the values in the receiver test are far from zero. Is there any way to re-calibrate the receiver test so that I dont have to use all the trims to get to 0?

I am using a Spektrum dx6i with ar6200 receiver on the tricopter delrin kit from fpvmanuals with ntm28-36 750kv motors.

When you've flashed 1.3 you need to select your platform. My tri servo was maxed out and that gave me a clue. 1.3 resets everything and you need to reconfigure.
H

...kk2-1.2v

HEX KK.2-1.2V MAIDEN FLIGHT-TEMPORARY SET-UP (5 min 10 sec)

KK2 Toss Test from KK. Don't know which firmware is loaded.

KK2 Self-level toss test (1 min 31 sec)

Originally Posted by kapteinkuk

Here is version 1.4

Changes:

1: SW LP-filter on the accelerometers.

2: Widened the correction limits to +-20 degrees.

3: Use accelerometer generated Euler angles instead of 3D vector generated angles for the correction check as suggested by Scolton. I think this one really did the trick.

4: Widened the vertical acceleration check to 0.5 - 1.5g.

5: It does not show the Euler angles on the safe screen until gyros has been calibrated to avoid confusion.

Updating from V1.3 to V1.4 does not change your settings.

Now it performs much better, it did not lose its UP direction at all, except for the special case of the toss test where the rotation rate exceeded the maximum that the gyros can handle. This will not happen during flight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QxAQCiF6m0

The two last clips is recovery from inverted free fall by just adding throttle from idle.

This is amazing. I can't wait to try it out. Tossing quadrotors could be a new sport. Thanks for the update!

Originally Posted by COCO2010

...kk2-1.2v

http://youtu.be/Qf-Y1stPzoc

Nice and stable copter!
It seems like you get approx. 4 minutes of hovering out of your battery. What battery are you using?
I got very short flight times (i.e. ~3 minutes) on my Y6 with 3s2700mAh. This was rather disappointing so I converted it into a tri and got more than 8 minutes on the same battery pack.

Originally Posted by RC911

Nice and stable copter!
It seems like you get approx. 4 minutes of hovering out of your battery. What battery are you using?
I got very short flight times (i.e. ~3 minutes) on my Y6 with 3s2700mAh. This was rather disappointing so I converted it into a tri and got more than 8 minutes on the same battery pack.

On this video I was using a 3s2650 mAh and yes very dissapointed on the flight time but,I understand with 6 motors and 6 esc'c and the heavier frame with 6 arms...it killed the lipo very quick. On the 3s3000 mah ,I was getting like 7 min fully charge. I will try doing a parallel on 2 3s3000 and see how much flight time I can get....thanks for liking it...maybe I'll keep it...or maybe not.
Any pix on the tri ?

Originally Posted by COCO2010

On this video I was using a 3s2650 mAh and yes very dissapointed on the flight time but,I understand with 6 motors and 6 esc'c and the heavier frame with 6 arms...it killed the lipo very quick. On the 3s3000 mah ,I was getting like 7 min fully charge. I will try doing a parallel on 2 3s3000 and see how much flight time I can get....thanks for liking it...maybe I'll keep it...or maybe not.
Any pix on the tri ?

Let me know the results if you do a test with parallel 3s3000 mAh batteries.

Here are some pictures and a video of my tri-copter:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68787338/VC-Tri%20winter.mp4

Originally Posted by kapteinkuk

Here is version 1.4

Changes:

1: SW LP-filter on the accelerometers.

2: Widened the correction limits to +-20 degrees.

3: Use accelerometer generated Euler angles instead of 3D vector generated angles for the correction check as suggested by Scolton. I think this one really did the trick.

4: Widened the vertical acceleration check to 0.5 - 1.5g.

5: It does not show the Euler angles on the safe screen until gyros has been calibrated to avoid confusion.

Updating from V1.3 to V1.4 does not change your settings.

Now it performs much better, it did not lose its UP direction at all, except for the special case of the toss test where the rotation rate exceeded the maximum that the gyros can handle. This will not happen during flight.



The two last clips is recovery from inverted free fall by just adding throttle from idle.

Excellent job ....

I'm wandering if this toss test can be done also with DJ Naza ... I did try on a little micro 6 dof RTF quad, time ago ... but the micro control board was not smart enough ... at least micro quad (30gram of quad) don't break even falling like a stone from 3 meter high ...

Wow, very impressive method to start ;-)

I just returned from a very funny indoor session with my kk2.0 quad. Most fun I had flying through a Raven shocky of a friend of me.

Christian

Originally Posted by kapteinkuk

Here is version 1.4

Changes:

1: SW LP-filter on the accelerometers.

2: Widened the correction limits to +-20 degrees.

3: Use accelerometer generated Euler angles instead of 3D vector generated angles for the correction check as suggested by Scolton. I think this one really did the trick.

4: Widened the vertical acceleration check to 0.5 - 1.5g.

5: It does not show the Euler angles on the safe screen until gyros has been calibrated to avoid confusion.

Updating from V1.3 to V1.4 does not change your settings.

Now it performs much better, it did not lose its UP direction at all, except for the special case of the toss test where the rotation rate exceeded the maximum that the gyros can handle. This will not happen during flight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QxAQCiF6m0

The two last clips is recovery from inverted free fall by just adding throttle from idle.

So awesome!

Don't forget to cross out:

1: Improve the Self-leveling.

on the To do list.