UAV
I always have been interested in UAVs. In August 2012, I figured that there are now enough public ressources to have a closer look at the topic. In this blog, I'm trying to follow my progress.
Where to go now?
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- Created on Sunday, 21 October 2012 14:01
- Written by Stefan Gofferje
My RQ-4 model never really made it off the ground. On the first spinup, the EDF spinner disintegrated. From wheels, it never made a liftoff and when tried to hand-launch it, it nosedived. Now it's damaged (for the moment) beyond repair. It anyways wouldn't make sense to invest time and money into a repair attempt without knowing the cause of the problems.
So we are back to square one. Well, not totally. But at least back to the question "copter or no copter"...
More and more infos...
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- Created on Monday, 17 September 2012 10:52
- Written by Stefan Gofferje
DIY Drones really turned out to be a great place! In regard to multi-rotors, I asked the endurance question and quickly got a really nice newbie-compatible explanation from Chris Gough, as well as a more than useful link to a multi-rotor parameter calculator from Wessie. The calculator alone will require some reading to understand the parameters but probably at the same time save lots of reading otherwise and make the design process much simpler. Again, the question, copter or no copter...?
Additionally, I found a place to buy extremely high quality motors and props...: Flyduino.
Copter or no copter, that is the question...
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- Created on Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:56
- Written by Stefan Gofferje
With the building of a multi-rotor being so painstakingly complicated for me as a total R/C novice, I peeped over the fence to the ArduPlane guys, and there it was... Massive, huge, black, 2kg payload, ... ... ...
Let's get started with a UAV - but from where...?
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- Created on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 15:12
- Written by Stefan Gofferje
After loitering around websites like DIY Drones for the last 2 or so years, I finally decided that it's time to get a bit deeper into the topic and registered a DIY Drones. But - from where shall we start? It was clear, that I want an unmanned aerial vehicle, so no boat and nothing wheeled. Leaves fixed-wings and rotorcrafts. Who knows me, knows that I am a helo person. After some more reading (lots and lots of reading), I thought, a multi-rotor would be a nice thing.
