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Seeing as it's your boss. I don't suggest telling him "I told you so..."
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Ciaphas posted:Two is now three They're gonna make a little drone commune on that roof.
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Ciaphas posted:Two is now three No loving way  Is there some kind of 2.4 and 5.8 rf vortex ontop of this building. So now its time for the pipe plan right?
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mashed_penguin posted:No loving way No were pretty sure his hook got jammed in one of the shingles so knocking it about won't work Gonna call a drat roofer like I should have done weeks ago
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The overall lesson here, is don't fly places you can't "go on your own" And "Crashing is better than losing the bird". Whenever I think i'm going to fly outside of reaonsable retrieval range, I put the thing down. .... and thank you for providing so much entertainment. :-)
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In the meantime, turn this unfortunate situation into a money-making carnival game. Buy a Nerf ball, charge $5 for 5 throws, and whoever knocks one down gets half of whatever's in the pool. Use your cut to replace the batteries.
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Boss has decided to borrow his bosses suburban, we are now driving back with ladder on roof Presume one of us died if I don't post again
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Take pictures and make lemonade out of lemons.
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Ciaphas posted:Boss has decided to borrow his bosses suburban, we are now driving back with ladder on roof Update: suburban stuck on roof.
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Ciaphas posted:Two is now three
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Victory http://i.imgur.com/fJiDh8e.jpg No deaths Going to work, will evaluate damage later Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Ciaphas posted:Boss has decided to borrow his bosses suburban, we are now driving back with ladder on roof Ciaphas posted:Victory
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Ciaphas posted:Victory  Other than lipos it will all probably be fine.
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Hahaha oh my god the wire coathanger hook mechanism. I'm dead.
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mashed_penguin posted:
Yeah they were both kinda bulge-y and weird looking, like a can of soup that was going off, so I just left them with the battery recyclers at the Home Depot when we returned the ladder. Speaking of ladder I don't have a problem with heights but watching someone else climb 30 feet on that thing was loving terrifying, I've probably lost a year of my life to running a 200bpm heartrate for several minutes 
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I'm just said you didn't put a photoshop of the ladder stuck on the roof.
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Alternatively ladder falls down and strands boss on roof. Editing for storytime: I made it into the mountains with the jeep on the weekend to fly the z3. Sadly it was super windy so most of my footage is a twitchy mess. I did make a gif though. Also thin air is a bitch to launch in compared to sea level. 
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Neat video. I know the Eachine isn't made for camera stuff at all (FPV flight aside natch), but when I get going again I'd love to use it to get some good flying pictures of the Red Rock range west of town. Apparently there's a place people get together to fly drones near the trail there.
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Takkaryx posted:Can you guys assist with diagnosing a problem? Every once in a while, and it seems to happen when I'm rolling, my quad will start pulsing the engines and drop out of the sky. I'm using a naze32 board with cleanflight and bsheli ESCs. I finally managed to record video of it happening, so the sound and motion of it could help with IDing the problem. The beeping at the end is an independent low voltage meter plugged into the load balance leads on the battery. I use three different batteries, and I know I've gone through all three in a day without this issue. I can provide screenshots of whatever cleanflight settings pages if that will help. I'm super new to mucking with cleanflight, so it may be a simple problem that I've overlooked. Takkaryx posted:I do not use airmode, and motor_stop is off. I finally got a chance to go flying again, motor_stop is now enabled. I didn't notice anything different on the ground. However, one roll, and the exact same thing happened as in the vid above. Anywhere else to look? Ciaphas, I'm glad your quads got recovered, and it sounds like you now have a buddy to go flying with too! Also, you've now encountered about the worst situation you're likely to have happen, so you know you can survive it.
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My Surface seems to be unhappy about trying to run dRonin GCS--it crashes half the time and fails to detect the flight controller the other half. Anyone else had problems with the dRonin GCS?
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Ciaphas posted:Neat video. I know the Eachine isn't made for camera stuff at all (FPV flight aside natch), but when I get going again I'd love to use it to get some good flying pictures of the Red Rock range west of town. Apparently there's a place people get together to fly drones near the trail there. If you can find some other guys that are good at flying that is by far the best way to learn. Most people are happy to teach as it is always fun to talk about your hobby/toys.
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I sort of wonder if it'd be a good idea to stop at Fry's tonight and pick up a Blade Nano QX to practice rate (acro?) flying before I risk crunching my Eachine. I can price match them down to sixty bucks, and everything I've read suggests they're great learners because the sun will explode before they take any real damage. Too bad the Syma doesn't have an acro mode, I'd just keep practicing with that instead. Question, if I want to learn to fly FPV, should I start by doing that right away or is LOS flight training pretty adaptable?
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For quads I'd just do fpv right away. Los skills are always useful but are only relevant for pfv if your video fails. In quads if that happens you have probably crashed or are too far away for Los skills to matter. For fixed wing Los skills are a lot more useful and applicable for launching as well as tuning and setup.
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Takkaryx posted:I finally got a chance to go flying again, motor_stop is now enabled. I didn't notice anything different on the ground. However, one roll, and the exact same thing happened as in the vid above. Anywhere else to look? That looks to me like the ESC is cutting out due to low voltage. Do your ESCs still have a low voltage cutoff somewhere in there? If the battery alarm is going off mid-flight then your batteries might be sagging below the minimum voltage for the esc/motor combo.
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CrazyLittle posted:That looks to me like the ESC is cutting out due to low voltage. Do your ESCs still have a low voltage cutoff somewhere in there? If the battery alarm is going off mid-flight then your batteries might be sagging below the minimum voltage for the esc/motor combo. I have my low voltage alarm set to 3.6v, and my ESCs are DYS BLheli 20a w/ oneshot. Is there a way to check/change via cleanflight if there's a voltage cutoff? Also, the voltage alarm didn't go off this time, and it only goes off sometimes when this happens.
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Ciaphas posted:I sort of wonder if it'd be a good idea to stop at Fry's tonight and pick up a Blade Nano QX to practice rate (acro?) flying before I risk crunching my Eachine. I can price match them down to sixty bucks, and everything I've read suggests they're great learners because the sun will explode before they take any real damage. Stop buying drones and fly the ones you already have. Put goggles on, launch the eachine in acro mode, and crash it 35 times. It'll magically click the 36th time. Don't hit the throttle when you tilt forward -- every new pilot does that. When you tilt to fly forward, the camera points at the ground. Inexperienced pilots instinctively climb with throttle until they see the horizon again, which is like 600ft in the air. Then the radio cuts out and you get to buy a new drone.
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A Yolo Wizard posted:If you're going to buy anything, it's paying a fiver to the fpv freerider dev while you practice on your PC and watch joishua bardwell vids Yeah I saw that earlier and thought it a great idea. What do I need to buy to hook my transmitter up to the PC and use it for that? It's apparently a rebranded FlySky i6 if that helps. I mean I guess I could use a good old 360 controller and that would work almost as well but the throttle'd be a bit odd (edit) Would it be one of these things? Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Shouldn't enable motor_stop. Having the motors spin on arm is a safety feature. --edit: vvv Everyone should be using switch arming, anyway. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Takkaryx posted:I have my low voltage alarm set to 3.6v, and my ESCs are DYS BLheli 20a w/ oneshot. Is there a way to check/change via cleanflight if there's a voltage cutoff? Also, the voltage alarm didn't go off this time, and it only goes off sometimes when this happens. Low voltage cutoff is a function of the ESC not the flight controller. The reason I suspected LV cutoff is that your voltage alarm triggered after the motors stopped (and you lost control). It's not just one motor stopping it seemed to be all of them. Other possibility - you're disarming your copter by accident with stick input
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Ciaphas posted:Yeah I saw that earlier and thought it a great idea. What do I need to buy to hook my transmitter up to the PC and use it for that? It's apparently a rebranded FlySky i6 if that helps. That's the one I bought, that I still have somewhere just can't find it. If you want to wait til Monday I can try to dig it up for you this weekend. If you don't, there's a trick to get it to work in freerideFPV. You need to get into the hidden settings menu, then enable trainer mode like this:  Then there's a setting you switch on that allows for trainer mode. I can look at my coworker's remote and remember how to do it specifically but that'll be Tuesday. You have to disable trainer mode when you're done as the TX stops transmitting wirelessly in trainer mode.
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Holy poo poo us, Not much time Say you loved me Once l fell into your vagina Of disease.
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Which is an apt metaphor for many things, including rc everything's.
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Yeah I tried to grok that and failed utterlySaNChEzZ posted:That's the one I bought, that I still have somewhere just can't find it. If you want to wait til Monday I can try to dig it up for you this weekend. Thanks, I'll just put in an order for the cable now so it might get here tomorrow. Amazon is in an odd hurry once in a while  (edit) Along with some balance plug protectors because I can already see myself yanking those flimsy plugs off of the cables and causing A Problem Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Your LV alarm going off any time ever before your pack is dead should b cause for alarm. Either your pack's bad or you're drawing too much.
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Combat Pretzel posted:--edit: vvv Everyone should be using switch arming, anyway. I could not figure out for the life of me how to make anything but Yaw+Throttle work for arm/disarm in dRonin. Though maybe I can mess around more with that now that I know how to get into the settings menu on the FS-i6.
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