Its a solo... wait.. its a DIY X8 wait ... its a Open SoloX8

pyrate · Mar 22, 2018

Pyrate Eye is my solo, this is Pyrate Eye Heavy

XevetS · Mar 22, 2018

Eye "Aye"...

Pirate thesaurus: "Aye". The pirate equivalent of "yes", aye can be used in a number of circumstances.

pyrate · Mar 22, 2018

I always thought more along the lines that Pyrates only have one eye

XevetS · Mar 22, 2018

I'm just being silly, But Great Job cant wait to see the flight @pyrate what type of camera is that?

pyrate · Mar 22, 2018

camera E1, with 14mm Panasonic Lens

erikgraham · Mar 24, 2018

Man i can’t wait to see this fly fully functional. Keep posting. Very cool.

pyrate · Mar 24, 2018

I spent yesterday replacing the IMU in the walkera gimbal with the Storm32 one. Ditched the worthless hdmi to av converter, since I will be using a ribbon cable to the IMX6.

That took a lot longer than expected because I screwed up the pitch motor wires in the process.

It is all back together now. I just have to wire up a bec to power the gimbal and solder servo connectors to the walkera motors and it is off to tuning.

Have not figured out what channel the paddles are on the solo controller. Once I figure that out I can hook it up to the FC. Torn on PWM or Serial

Seems Olli is now only willing to say the Storm32 will work with his fork of arducopter and I hate forks.

XevetS · Mar 24, 2018

pyrate said:
Seems Olli is now only willing to say the Storm32 will work with his fork of arducopter and I hate forks.

Yeah I feel the same way I wonder what code changes make it work? I know he is also using modified ESC'S using CanBus...

XevetS · Mar 24, 2018

As far as Tilt are you going with Mavlink/UART or PWM? its fairly straight forward..The Solo tilt paddle should be Channel 6 in mission planner. I'm sure you know this already..

pyrate · Mar 24, 2018

XevetS said:
Yeah I feel the same way I wonder what code changes make it work? I know he is also using modified ESC'S using CanBus...

I wonder if it would be as simple as do a dif on the two versions and do a pull request
never done such a thing, but I know people who can

XevetS · Mar 24, 2018

pyrate said:
I wonder if it would be as simple as do a dif on the two versions and do a pull request
never done such a thing, but I know people who can

Might be a place to start Im gonna download betacopter or whatever Olliw is calling it...

Here is a good writeup by @mike_kelly >> The Holy Grail of DIY QUADS - FrankenSolo - RC Groups

pyrate · Mar 25, 2018

XevetS · Mar 25, 2018

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Nice looking good man! The terrier is like what the heck is Alpha-Dog up to now?? Quick question what is the AUW on that beast? 5~6 pounds??

pyrate · Mar 25, 2018

been wondering the same, my guess is more like 6-7, but i could be wrong.
The camera and gimbal are really not that heave, and I shed a little weight on the gimbal

XevetS · Mar 25, 2018

pyrate said:
been wondering the same, my guess is more like 6-7, but i could be wrong.
The camera and gimbal are really not that heave, and I shed a little weight on the gimbal

Good weight to power ratio...great build..

pyrate · Mar 25, 2018

I was getting around 18 minutes before the gimbal and camera.
Most likely will move up to 6s at some point. Move to 22mm arms.

Just want to prove it all out first.

Biggest problem is trying to calibrate the ESCs with the solo link. No way to keep the throttle at 100% and unplug that battery. I think I am going to have to find some way to power the imx6 separate from the battery

XevetS · Mar 25, 2018

Yeah I hear ya I almost had my quad go through the ceiling/roof luckily I had the props inverted..

pyrate · Mar 25, 2018

I don't do props indoors
Well I did once, now I never do

Kennamer · Mar 26, 2018

pyrate said:
I don't do props indoors
Well I did once, now I never do

I did once too on an R/C plane.

I was just going to servo reverse the rudder channel really quick, except that I was accidentally on the throttle channel. An 11" prop on 4S overrode my throttle safeties and went from 0% to 100% with the click of a button. Ended up with a trip to the E.R. (I won't post the pictures). My kitchen and living room looked like a grisly murder scene, blood splatter and all.

Having mostly flown nitro over the last 30 years, I had never had a motor start itself and go to 100% throttle in about 1 second. Now I know.