MEHA is mostly built, just now I need to get some spare parts due to broken components, mainly a thread being stripped. I'll post photos soon enough.
MEHA is mostly built, just now I need to get some spare parts due to broken components, mainly a thread being stripped. I'll post photos soon enough.
Well, SEPA arrived at my uni today with some 800mAh 2S LiPo batteries (I have to order in the 1Ah 2S batteries for SEPA, but I can test with the 800mAh batteries) and I've assembled it. Like the Firefox EP200, there is pretty much no instructions included with it, however, it's not hard how to figure out how to assemble the plane. The servos are glued in place, so I'll need to work out how to remove them and replace them with the HXT500 servos I bought which are a lot better. But before I fly, I wish to mod the plane slightly, putting in new servos for better control, put in actual hinges for the control surfaces (currently it's just very thin foam holding on the ailerons and elevator, it's asking to break mid flight), adapting the 'cockpit' area to accept my little camera that I bought with MEHA and also to house some of the electronics I'll be putting into the plane. Also properly charge up my cheap NiMH batteries.
So on the shopping list:
Scalpel
Foam-safe Glue
Hinges
1Ah Batteries
Custom PCB to hold electronics
Nerves of steel to cut up a brand new plane
Epoxy and some thin fibreglass
I'll leave these here:
More to come soon.
that first vid would look SOOOOO COOOL in 3D
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Sadly, I don't have 2 cameras.... and firstly, I really need a better camera! The Samsung HMX-U10 that I use is ok, but it has a lot of flaws. At least it can record in 720p 60FPS or 1080p 30FPS.
Looks good...now get that bird in the air!
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I'll just leave this here
http://www.elenafrancesco.org/old/arduino/baronpilot/
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The problem with using an Arduino as the base of a autopilot, you don't get enough performance for it to work well enough. You'd need multiple arduinos connected to each other to get the desired results. It's possible to get it close using a couple of arduinos, but not 1. If you ditch the Wirish libraries and only use C/ASM, then you might be able to get it running fairly well on 1.
In other news, we had a small incident this morning. 2 LiPo batteries were accidentally plugged into each other, I'm currently repairing the batteries due to both batteries needing new plugs. Pictures to come later.
Shocking news!