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Hi all,

Check out Chris on this RCGroups thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=975833&page=610&highlight=easystar . Reply #9142

Regards,
TCIII

Hi all,

I have been a System Engineer for over 30 yrs and have gone from tubes to ICs during my time in the Aero Space industry.

Tubes were virtually immune to ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) and could be handled just about any way we wanted to. But when it comes to ICs, ESD can damage or destroy an IC in an instant.

Many of the boards offered for sale in kits by DIY Drones contain static sensitive parts/components that can be damaged even when attached to their respective circuit boards.

Ther… Continue

Hi all,

I live just north of McKinney, Texas and slightly east of the North Central Expressway (US 75).

Is anyone in the McKinney and surrounding (Princeton, Frisco, Melissa, Anna or Sherman) area interested in forming a UAV support group?

Regards,
TCIII

Hi all,

It took me a while to figure out that I could back order the FMA XY sensor when it was listed as being out of stock instead of waiting until a new production run came in to FMA.

FMA appears to only make enough to fill back orders as the June 1st shipment that I had been waiting for was immediately gone and the XY sensor status had gone back to out of stock with the next delivery being June 26th.

So I decided to place an order for the XY sensor to see if FMA would accept an order for a… Continue

Hi all,

I know that there were some issues using Arduino IDE ver 15 and it was recommended to use ver 13.

However, I thought that I read somewhere on the ArduPilot Home page that ver 15 had been fixed and would work with the ArduPilot code.

Can anyone tell me which version will work with the ArduPilot code?

Regards,
TCIII