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Inspired by @Patscherofel and bored with the “hard” mounted GoPro look at decided to try and mount my Jakub’s GoPro gimbal onto my tricopter. I’ve enabled camera stabilization to the gimbal and it’s working. I need to tune out some jittering I think, but over all I like the results.
I’ve since upgraded the “pitch’ servo to an HS-65HB which is much smoother than the HXT900 that I have on there now.
Here’s some pics.
Here’s vide of the initial test I conducted today.
Short test of the camera stabilization in Arducopter 2.0.49 Beta. I’ve set this arducopter up for hexa plus and camera stabilization is on by default. I just adjusted the camera trims and servo travel using the APM Mission Planner. This will be getting installed on a UAP1 frame from AGL Hobbies.
Right now I am using HXT900 9g servos, but will be swapping them out with something faster and smoother later on.
Flight of my tricopter. It’s running a Paris 4.0 board with original WMP and Nunchuk. Finally have gotten the oscillations out I think I had the P & I terms a bit too high. I just need to tune the stabilize mode and tweak the yaw a bit since it’s drifting. When I first started tuning I did nothing but hover and with the high I it was just LOCKED in like it was on rails. After I got comfortable with a throttle curve, I decided to do some “fast” forward flight and that’s where the oscillations were very pronounced. After my last tweak, it removed the wobbles, but still flies very crisp.
This tricopter has 13in poplar arms, AX2213N motors, 25A ESCs, running GWS 9050 three bladed props. FPV gear: ReadyMadeRC 100mW 1.3GHz Vtx, 600TVL Sony Super HAD camera.
Tried something new today. I wanted to do some panning timelapse and decided to hook up a servos, RC receiver and BEC to a custom camera mount (plywood). I just turned on the cameras cameras and moved the my Transmitter stick a small bit every minute. I need to make it smooth, so Arduino will be making it’s way into the next version of this.
The camera is a GoPro HD with a modified lens from Sunex. I bought the lens from ReadyMadeRC since Tim ships them fast.
“I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.” – Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Compilation of some weekend flying footage from the my OpenPilot CC Tricopter. This thing is super stable. I have complete confidence when flying with OpenPilot. Can’t believe how simple the setup was. I am using 3-bladed props this time. They are much quieter, but produce less thrust. I had to adjust my trottle curve a bit to get better response.
Setup:
OpenPilot CC
Turnigy 2213N motors
Turnigy Plush 18A ESC
GWS 9×5 3-bladed props (2 CCW, 1 CW)
Pro Tricopter Delrin frame
ImmersionRC 500mW 5.8GHz Vtx + Bluebeam SPW
DragonLink UHF RC System
Maiden FPV flight of my tricopter. I have a bent motor shaft so it’s causing some vibration issues…sorry for the shaky vid. The tricopter frame is from fpvmanuals.com. Very nice delrin frame kit with a no slop yaw setup. Really nice work from Tim.
Second Stryker FPV flight. I went back to using FM since I was having some range issues with OpenLRS. I am going to test that in the Skyfun since there is much less gear on it and more room to move it around the frame.
First FPV flight of the Stryker.
Testing GoPro Hero HD on the Y6. Put a 85N.6 Filter (warming gel) on the lens to see how it affects the rolling shutter.