September 2014 Blog Posts (4)

VR ESC 2.0 Tech Preview

Hello everyone,

after some years of absence from the portfolio of the esc VR, I present the new design.

We made choices very conservative to have 27 and 50 amp ESC from 4s to 6s ... we are doing tests and validations necessary because this is a very delicate component.

Here are the first photos and video of the first test.…

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Added by Roberto Navoni on September 26, 2014 at 11:12pm — 1 Comment

The IMU drone in Connected Rider: telemetry system for Motocross by Red Bull

Now that Tony Cairoli can fully enjoy about the newly conquered eighth world title in Motocross, Red Bull can reveal some details that have contributed to the success. Here's one: about a year ago, the team of the hugely popular energy drink has involved our Team to create a telemetry…

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Added by Roberto Navoni on September 13, 2014 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Beer drones are back, this time with Google Glass

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. -- We still don't have hoverboards or flying cars, but in the glorious future we live in today, we do have flying robots that can…

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Added by Roberto Navoni on September 10, 2014 at 7:03am — No Comments

[HOW TO] Connect SD card on VRB 4.5 for full nutt-x operations

After the latest firmware release, vrb supports RtOS for operation.

A neat feature is the advanced and quasi-unlimited logging capabilities. The logs will be written after each flight session and they are stored on SdCard.

on Vrb 5.0 the microsd adapter is on board, but for owners (like me) of the previous hw revision, we need to work…

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Added by Michele Branchini on September 9, 2014 at 11:30pm — 5 Comments