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Comment by Richard on May 5, 2012 at 2:53am

Does anyone know when camera stabilization will be built into Arduplane?

Comment by Gustav Kuhn on May 2, 2012 at 6:42am

@Bradley,

Vibration is a killer, you will need to read up on proper vibration dampening.

This is what we did...

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/my-large-scale-uav-project

Comment by Bradley J Carr on May 2, 2012 at 6:19am

I would like to know some of the problems I would face using a NITRO engine instead of Electric.  I have nothing but nitro except a quadcopter.

Comment by Dara Shayda on February 17, 2012 at 3:46pm

@Chris Anderson 

I just went thru my copter and original notes I was working on and my impressions, it was my confusion but I assumed that  the tech support or the group that does the support for the copter is DIYDRONES.

This is not entirely correct. But I should have been informed by the store, they kept sending me to here.

I went over all the parts, and branding is a hodge-podge of sub-brands. 

I think for a newcomer it is quite easy to get confused thinking that the DIYDRONES is the support blog for their purchases. 

The  stores are silent, so they ride this wave. 

D

Comment by Jim on February 17, 2012 at 2:46pm

Awesome, thanks Chris. To my mind, that's all that matters. the rest is just detail ;)

Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on February 17, 2012 at 2:44pm

Jim: the hardware is 100% open source. The Eagle files are in the product listings.  But by "3DR creates the hardware", I mean "manufactures".

Comment by Dara Shayda on February 17, 2012 at 2:15pm

@Robert

Thank you I emailed you already, will talk off-line. 

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on February 17, 2012 at 2:13pm

@Dara, I sent you a note, please accept my friend request and we'll discuss further. I may have a solution to your problems that you'll find better than UofT students. ;)  I'm curious to fully understand your situation.

Comment by Jim on February 17, 2012 at 1:47pm

Chris, can you just clarify?  "3DR creates the hardware" That sounds like the hardware is not opensource, is that right? Are the schematics for the boards available and free for people to fab on their own (as ardiuno is?) or would that be an copyright (or other) infringement of 3DR?

Jim

Comment by Dara Shayda on February 17, 2012 at 1:47pm

@Chris

Thank you Chris for clarifications, I hope you place these in some of the documentation indeed it was confusing. 

However there are things you are not aware of: If you buy an assembled kit of any kind from any of the stores you discover that they load the OLD versions of the software. If you load the newer version of the software they no longer support their own products, citing THIS IS NOT WHAT WE SOLD YOU, not our responsibility.

Also there is almost no support, as in tech support from the stores, and I do not wish to mention specific names. 

Example: Myself and few others purchase DX8 Spektrum handheld RC and we do not know which modes are mapped to which switches on the handheld. Am I the only person, no there are others who waste gobs of time with these little details. I wrote to the store who sold me the spektrum, no response. Because they do not know themselves. 

So I gave up and planning to retain two university of Toronto students to assemble and repair and fly the ardu machines. In other words, I need to establish  my own support.

As it stands today, given my limited experience with the arducopter and the stores here, there is very little support. 

Q: Is this the responsiblity of this BLOG to do tech support?

A: No. There is no legal or ethical liabilities for DIYDRONES. But in the beginnings I was confused and asked you some questions if you recall.

At this impasse we need a new solution to support the machines. This statement should not be read as a critical view, it is a fact, I need to find out how to address support, and challenge for others like me. This however does not make the products here inferior. 

Dara

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