You have the most interesting videos. One time you’re a mad genius and the next you’re fumbling around, getting fertilizer in your eye, or yelling at bad Ardupilot settings. Either way, it’s always educational and I love that you show the ugly side of RC and pushing the envelope as well.
@henriksegercrantz362
6 жыл бұрын
Great. Pls keep doing these videos because they make it so easy to discover new great things to test without having to read the manual! :)
@omarimordechai8589
3 жыл бұрын
a tip : watch series at flixzone. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.
@kyngronin2442
3 жыл бұрын
@Omari Mordechai Definitely, been watching on Flixzone for months myself :D
@allanjackson2222
3 жыл бұрын
@Omari Mordechai Yea, have been using Flixzone for since december myself =)
@watsoncassius6155
3 жыл бұрын
@Omari Mordechai Definitely, I've been watching on Flixzone for since december myself =)
@brycevincenzo3961
3 жыл бұрын
@Omari Mordechai yup, I have been using flixzone for since november myself :)
@markgreco1962
6 жыл бұрын
Brings me back to the cheep ass quadcopter series. Ah those were the days! Thanks Chris.
@bringamosa8480
6 жыл бұрын
I like these videos it opens up idea's to thinker with witch i might have not thought of otherwise.
@allaboutpixhawkandrpi3691
4 жыл бұрын
Hello, i have a question. do you know why i dont get the Roll, Pitch,throttle in the first few rows? i Just have channels 1-16 on the first column and all the Buttons on the other column?
@RobB_VK6ES
6 жыл бұрын
Back before I got a Taranis and was playing with Aurdupilot quads I modded a basic TX to accept an Arduino PWM output as input to an Aux channel of the TX. For user input I fitted two momentary switches to the TX. One switch increased the duty cycle of the PWM, the other decreased it the largish steps used by Ardupilot for mode selection. With suitable delays between switch activations and holding the current mode untill no more switch events were detected I was able to select all modes by simply pressing up or down, similar to the "Flappy Paddles" used on high end car transmissions. Would be trivial for you to make but one caveat, the Aux channel needs to be fully proportional and not all are. Two questions for you Chris. What were you doing in Japan? a fascinating country BTW and why Flysky? New flying field/ back yard looks much more interesting than the last.
@laurijuusela8122
6 жыл бұрын
What kind of modem you have used for the datalink? What is the data rate of the datalink? Have you checked the "Max time between packets" from MissionPlanner link stats and what kind of delays you have observed? Is the data link bandwidth saturated when using Joystick control?
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
It's a pretty standard 900MHz radio modem, I looked at it in some detail here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/zqV7soJ-rHiVmGU Running at 57600 baud, don't know the answers for the other questions sorry. The delays observed should be mostly visible in this video at about 5:16
@laurijuusela8122
6 жыл бұрын
So you have this modem with SiK firmware. I would suggest that you rise the baudarate to 115200 and set the kzitem.info/news/bejne/zqV7soJ-rHiVmGU Max Window to something like 60ms or less. Max Window has large part on the observed latency. The second thing is that if the modems bandwidth is saturated with the amount of data, then this causes more buffering for example. You could check that the datarate stays below 57600baud/s when operating with Joystick+Normal telemetry. I believe that when these settings are set correctly, you should get almost "unobservable" latency (40-80ms).
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tips. Yes I did read about some ways to improve the latency, but like I said in the video it's not really a concern for me in practice. Mostly the joystick would only be used for the occasional adjustment while flying in autonomous modes. I would never use it in manual or for proximity flying where I need fast response. I am much more interested in keeping a solid link at longer range, for which a lower data rate should be helpful.
@alphaadhito
6 жыл бұрын
Nice! I think the roughness of the joystick control is just because the joystick dont have very sensitive gimbal range like most transmitters do. If you open most joystick, the gimbal is simply use pcb pads and some resistor to "feel" the movement vs. potentiometer or even hall sensor on rc transmitters. Never know though that you can control with joystick via mission planner, looks like worth a try : )
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
Yes the poor accuracy of position around center is caused by the gimbal type (large deadband unlike rc transmitter) but I think most of the delay and choppiness is caused by the telemetry link speed.
@DanielWilliams-oi4ss
6 жыл бұрын
I'd be interested to know if another "nicer" gaming controller would be better. e.g. a ps4 controller
@angelleal3005
3 жыл бұрын
Do you also have to calibrate the Joystick ?
@sUASNews
6 жыл бұрын
It's for folks that want to fly fully autonomously really with some buttons for stuff
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
Yes it's great for that.
@john1945xxxxxx
6 жыл бұрын
If I may, I would like to hook you to the 'way back machine. I watched all your videos on your CNC machine. I have the same intermittent dropout problem. I want to copy what you did with Bluetooth, but can't figure out how to implement it on the Arduino/grbl. How do you get the Bluetooth drivers onto the Arduino? Isn't it already full with grbl? Can I just plug a Bluetooth dongle into the USB port of the Arduino (with suitable type-A to type_B adapter)? Color me confused. I built the CNC a couple of years ago, but after destroying a lot of walnut wood with the various glitches, I gave up on it. You have inspired me. Any guidance you can throw my way will be greatly appreciated. John
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
The arduino doesn't need to know anything about bluetooth. The bluetooth modules have Rx/Tx pins, and you plug these into the Tx/Rx pins of the arduino (digital 0 and 1). You can briefly see this here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/u66Z3WR9hmJjjKwm18s The tricky part is getting your laptop set up so that the bluetooth device appears as a serial device. Actually with an external dongle that might just happen naturally.... but for my laptop where I used the existing built-in bluetooth capability it was not so straightforward and I forgot how I eventually did it.
@assizpereira1374
6 жыл бұрын
right guys is it really that twitchy with a bad delay on it or is this improvable with a better 2.4 or 5.8ghz wifi radio transmitter
@nemkec4840
6 жыл бұрын
Hi, did u tried to connect mini pix over 3g network maybe? I successfully maide it with APM 2.8 using Andruav for android, its easy and delay is maybe second or two. Asking beacuse aiming to order mini pix for long range plane and use it over 3g, if not I will look for one more old 2.8 apm The way I did it, connected APM via micro usb port directly to my phone OTG cable connected phone and 3g ziptied on that time was quad and fired Andruav :)
@TheLightningStalker
6 жыл бұрын
I used a USB joystick for flight sim before I got a real transmitter and the joysticks were never as good as the gimbals in a tx. Generic brand game pads are also never as good as the game console brand ones. It depends how it is implemented though. In order to make it work well they need to account for the fact that joysticks always have springs that return to center and they cannot be removed. Throttle for instance is a problem because of this. You thumb gets tired quickly if you're always pushing against the spring in the joystick.
@zxcvbnmnz
6 жыл бұрын
Have you moved north, looks like the top half.
@blancsteve4819
6 жыл бұрын
How satisfying would it be to fly using vocal commands only. Universal voice recognition interface UVRI. Sounds like a book I once read called the diamond age.
@DrNasirHayat
5 жыл бұрын
Really informative infect I was looking for something like flying manually busing some kayboard buttons
@andrewjamez
6 жыл бұрын
To maintain alt in fbwa mode the aircraft must be mechanically trimmed to fly level at the throttle position you want to cruise at.
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it needed just a little more throttle than it was getting at that point where it had trouble :)
@best_beans1732
6 жыл бұрын
Do you live in NZ? North of Auckland by any chance?
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, south of Auckland
@best_beans1732
6 жыл бұрын
iforce2d damn! I'm in Chch. Not often I see someone from NZ by chance.
@GW-zw6wo
6 жыл бұрын
RTL in PLANE: user inputs are still recognized - in case you see it heading to trouble.
@gunslingerfourtysix
6 жыл бұрын
What part of Oz are you flying in ?
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
The New Zealand part :)
@amisoftau2659
6 жыл бұрын
Lol I like your attitude!
@gunslingerfourtysix
6 жыл бұрын
That makes sense,I was wondering where all that green hilly open ground was. I'm on the South East Coast of Oz cya mate
@stofffpv3128
6 жыл бұрын
some of us learn better from watching things done as opposed to reading..dry notes..my mind just gobblygooks it all out if i have to read it..i need to see it being done..so thanks
@tmalanam
4 жыл бұрын
Try with logitech extreme 3d pro joystick. It will do better
@joetke
6 жыл бұрын
really annoying. blabla bla but nothing visible! Sony invented lens-equipped camera to make real zooming possible! Digital cameras /smartphones have nothing comparable. That makes some parts of this video really pointless.
@iforce2d
6 жыл бұрын
Have you ever tried to make a video like this, holding and zooming a handicam while also flying a plane, and testing an unfamiliar feature huh? Usually you can hardly see anything in the handicam viewfinder in the sun for a start, and for the purposes of this video it's not necessary to see every detailed movement of the plane as long as I let you know what it's doing, so it's not pointless at all. A zoomed in view would just show you the plane on a blue background, arguably even more useless since you couldn't tell where it was moving in the overall scene. Plus.... if you watch in 1080p you can actually see it most of the time anyway.
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