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It's shipped from Asynclabs last week, so should be here in a few days.
In the mean time, I put some more hours into the Arduino sketch. The drone now fly very smooth and the control is very proportional to the stick position. Will upload the latest sketch later. I'm also working on a program to be run inside the drone so we can plug an Arduino mini directly to the drone serial port. We can then connect the RX into the mini. No need for WiFi module. It's light and cost less than $20 |
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The Yellow Jacket finally arrived.
Small enough to be placed onboard the ArDrone. Took it out to a local football field. Boy, this thing is fun with the RC radio. No fear of loosing the WiFi signal. The ArDrone was surprisingly fast. I did a quick test and it seemed that the video downlink via WiFi to my iPod was still available. |
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Take off and fly procedure - All sticks in mid position - Flick switch to "Up" position -> ArDrone takes off and enter position hold - Fly around - ArDrone will automatically enter position hold when "Roll" and "Pitch" stick is in the middle. - During position hold or flying around, move throttle up from mid stick to ascend - Move throttle down from mid stick to descend - Move throttle to middle to enter altitude hold Landing procedure - Find a nice spot - Flick the switch "down" -> ArDrone make a slow landing and switch off the motors and..... repeat for more fun |
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Very nice. +1 for some flying video! I was thinking of your throttle setup and yaw. If your not careful, you could lose/gain a bit of altitude when yawing the Drone( linear throttle curve,0-100). Would it still work if you would flatten out the curve, so when you add/decrease throttle, it won't jump up too fast. I hope I explained that right.
Brian. BTW, did you experience the drone wanting to climb with fast forward flight? It would be nice if your setup solved this problem. Can you post a wiring layout of the yellowjacket? |
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cool!!
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