So, after Jens cut down the print-time of the hexacopter from about 7 days to 3 with some smart redesigns we where ready to fly again! Since we only have one Raspberry Pi camera and don't want to crash it (yet), we used a old digital camera and used some duckttape to attach it to our machine. It was a bit bulky and the video isn't that exiting, but it's still a video from mid air!
And here is the flight we where the camera was attached.
The flight after we noticed midair that we had forgot the antenna to the RC-controller. The magic here was that Jens quickly set the hexa to land (it can do that automatically) and somehow it got that command and did the best landing so far.
Me (Anton) and Alexander are working on the case for the RasPi and all the electronics, and hopefully the whole design including camera, gimbal and all the sensors will be easily attached and done in the end of the week.
Well, programmed as is now, worst case scenario would be that it would fly upwards until batteries ran out, then plummet down. Apparently there is a setting for what it does when losing radio contact which by default is to accelerate. Before the next flight we're going to set it to auto-land. So, next time hopefully it will simply land.
Question: What would happen if you forgot to attach the RC antenna and were too slow to tell it to land?
ReplyDeleteWell, programmed as is now, worst case scenario would be that it would fly upwards until batteries ran out, then plummet down. Apparently there is a setting for what it does when losing radio contact which by default is to accelerate. Before the next flight we're going to set it to auto-land. So, next time hopefully it will simply land.
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