Ciao a tutti, ieri abbiamo collaudato e fatto volare l'hexa coax di Daniele, una bella realizzazione in aluminio . Il video e' del primo volo e Daniele stava prenderndo familiarita' con il mezzo. Di solito pilota riproduzioni aeree , ma si e' trovato subito a suoi agio con il suo nuvo drone , bisogna ancora lavorare sui PID , specialmente sullo YAW ancora un po' molle.
I componenti sono : Firmware : Arducopter32 NG Scheda CPU : Multipilot32 Scheda IMU : VRIMU Regolatori Motorius 30 A Motori Motorius 2217
Together with a friend would like to build a heavy tricopter. We plan on using motors giving 6 kg thrust each. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?ThanksPerry
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The project "ArdUFO : un drone au service de tous" was selected during the December holidays for being presented at the "Palais de la découverte" at Paris, on February 9th 2013, as part of the "Olympiades de Physique France" contest.
The UAV was created thanks to Roberto Navoni and his magnificent card : VR BRain !
The day ended with the awards ceremony. After some speeches of the selection board, the awards were finally released, and we finished with a second price !
We now decided to continue with the C.Génial contest, to perform our project.
Some video of FoxTeam member with their QuadFox .. We're flying and testing stable mode using Arducopter MP ( MultiPilot revision) .. the result is fantastic ;) Then next step will be GPS hold and return to home ... ;)
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European FoxTeam are doing the first test of Quadfox in Acro mode. We're doing some looping. The Quad Pilot is Giuseppe D'Angelo FoxTeam member the Father of HG3 .
In the video He explain how is possible to do looping with QuadFox v3 . At the end of looping for stabilize Quad he use switch to put quad in stable mode.
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I'm Giacomo and I'm the founder and coordinator of a Venice area-based filmmaking collective known as Hive Division.
We gathered around a feature-lenght, no budget fanfilm, Metal Gear Solild: Philanthropy, in order to put together our different skills, gain visibility and grow up as a team. The film was released in September 2009 and had a huge success of public, accumulating more than 3 millions overall views and represents the base of know-how on wich we're currently building our original narrative projects (the first one will be announced in September 2011) and our path in the video production business.
and here's a video we shot for an institutional client
Some time ago we met Roberto Navoni,Laser Navigation's CEO and coordinator of the VirtualRobotix Community in order to discuss a future Hive Division project (Wave) for a sci-fi feature that would require an agile camera platform, something beyond any available crane, steadycam or cablecam.
The multicopter frenzy at the time was still building its momentum, but it was clearly a cost-effective approach and, therefore, the best fit for our needs.
A series of meetings and brainstormings with Roberto, though, made clear that the end results we aimed at was not just to get a platform we could use for the feature film Wave, but a high performance flying camera that would suit any indie video production, virtually replacing the helicopter in most of the situation. The project than turned into a proper R&D cooperation between Hive and Laser, one that our lack of immagination forced us to call the "Wave Camera" :)
In Hive Division, the guys following this project are
Me
Alberto, Hive's 3d Team, graduated in aerospace engineer and future Wave pilot
Mattia, Hive's DOP, graduated in multimedia technology ad future Wave camera operator
WAVE CAMERA
Thanks to the HDSLR revolution, many little companies around the world are currently working at such devices and some DID achieve remarkable results, but we always feel like something is missing (the incapacity of producing anything but wide angle shots, the lack of proper focus control etc).
We want to create a new one, built specifically for indie filmaking.
We want our platform to carry heavier equipment, better optics and to carry them faster and further than what existing platforms are currently able to do. We want our platform to be well integrated with its "eye" and to give filmakers-on-a-budget a flexible and powerful tool for their needs.
Instead of trying to create a Predator-sized UAV without any meaningful ROV experience, we decided for a step-by-step approach in order to softly land on any critical aspect of such a project.
The first two platform that Roberto and his company prepared for us are:
A light, relatively cheap quadcopter that Alberto will use to perfect his ROV skills
A medium-sized coaxial hexacopter that will be used to lift our HDSLR and to gradually prepare our wishlist of features for the long-term developement of our ultimate flying camera :)
We'll start testing both platform around the end of august/september, and we plan, together with Roberto, to keep you Virtualrobotix guys posted about our developements. Any suggestion or feedback you'll be willing to provide will help us shape this platform.
When Richard Van As, a master carpenter in Johannesburg, South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers, it wasn’t just for fun. He’d lost four of the fingers on his right hand in an unfortunate work accident. For a tradesman like Rich, having a disabled hand is a big professional detriment, so Richard decided on the day of his the incident that he would use the tools available to him to remedy his situation. Watch the inspiring video above to hear how Richard’s project, Robohand, is changing lives with patience, spirit, and a MakerBot Replicator 2.
Getting Started
MakerBot heard about the Robohand project in January 2013. Richard had been trading ideas with Ivan Owen, a collaborator in Washington State, for several months. Ivan used his prior experience with mechanical prop hands to make design suggestions, while Richard attempted to replicate the designs in his workshop.
The process was taking weeks and months per cycle. For us here at MakerBot, that was too much wasted time. We knew our 3D printer, the MakerBot Replicator 2, could take this important work to new heights. We saw their collaboration and the work they were doing as groundbreaking, and we asked Ivan and Richard to accept a donation from us: a MakerBot Replicator 2 for each of them, one in Washington, and another in South Africa.
If the tool was useful to them, we hoped they would share their work on Thingiverse.com for the world to download. It turns out the MakerBots were incredibly useful, and the guys have followed through on their promise. Just hours after they received their packages from us here in Brooklyn, the two collaborators were sharing files back and forth, testing the design in one place and doing another iteration on the other side of the world. Richard says it took the prototyping process down from weeks to just 20 minutes.
But that’s only half the story.
Giving A Hand
Robohand has grown far beyond the goal of making a set of fingers just for Richard. When the power of desktop 3D printing and MakerBot entered the picture, Richard began to realize how quickly he could refine a design for other people who have lost their fingers, or who were born without fingers. After posting his own story, he received emails and Facebook messages from parents whose children were candidates for a Robohand of their own. One of these children was five-year-old Liam.
The condition Amniotic Band Syndrome is poorly understood, but the effects of it are pretty clear. Children are often born without extremities, especially fingers and toes, when fibrous bands in the womb prevent these parts from developing normally. It’s this condition that caused Liam to be born with no fingers on his right hand. The cost of purchasing a traditional prosthesis was far too much for the family, especially since Liam is a young and fast growing boy who would outgrow a prosthesis in a few months.
Liam was given a Robohand just days after Richard and Ivan received their MakerBots in January, 2013, and he has already been fitted for his second. The word spread, and other kids in the Johannesburg area like Liam with Amniotic Band Syndrome have received their own Robohands, sized just for them. The files, including the assembly instructions, have been posted online at Thingiverse, and they have been downloaded over 3,800 times by people around the globe.
What Is A Robohand?
A Robohand is a set of mechanical fingers that open and close to grasp things based on the motion of the wrist. When the wrist folds and contracts, the cables attaching the fingers to the base structure cause the fingers to curl. Nearly all the parts of a Robohand are 3D printed on MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D printers.
Ivan, who played a big part in the initial design stages of Robohand, says he studied the anatomy of crab legs and human fingers to get the basic muscle and tendon structure. The result is a simple assembly that Richard believes anyone can make themselves. While a full set of prosthetic fingers may cost thousands of dollars, all of the Robohand parts that are made on the MakerBot Replicator 2 add up to roughly a few dollars in material cost, with the total mechanical hand costing around $150 (USD).
Who Needs A Robohand?
Amniotic Band Syndrome affects 1 in 1,200 live births.
About 80% of cases of Amniotic Band Syndrome involve the loss or malformation of fingers and hands.
Finger amputations are the most common amputation in the US, accounting for over 90% of all amputations, according to various reports.
How Do I Get A Robohand?
Robohand was not imagined as a service or a product. Instead, Richard has shared the design files and instructions for creating a Robohand on Thingiverse so that people around the world can download, customize, print, and assemble Robohands for themselves or for others.
So far, we’ve heard stories of Robohands being made for children and adults in the US, Canada, and Thailand. Are you a MakerBot owner who can give this incredible gift to someone in your community?
Get Involved
There’s still a lot to be done. Richard has given hands-on help to a few of the people within his reach, but Robohand needs your help in order to get to the people who need it most.
● Want to spread the word? Share this video with your friends on Twitter or Facebook. ● Looking to to support the cause? Check out Robohand’s Indiegogo campaign. ● Are you an occupational therapist or prosthetist? Leave a comment below!
Make a Robohand
The design files and assembly instructions for Robohand can be found on Thingiverse.
Robohand’s creators would like to empower others around the world to use their files and create and print in 3D Robohands of their own, and they are not in the mechanical hand business. They created Robohand out of the goodness of their heart. Now it’s time to provide the files to the world and see what other good can come from them!
Robohand uses the following tools to make their mechanical hands:
Finally getting back to VRBrain testing. Just got it working with the latest MissionPlanner and AC2.6 that has some enhancements I am using for work. Originally developed and loaded via linux (OpenSuSE 12.2). Configured for a Y6 and Hexa. Hopefully will be flying by the weekend. Looking good!
Hi,in this test I check a new software management of coaxial propellers.It seems that everything works well, no micro-oscillationil test riguarda un nuovo algoritmo di gestione delle eliche coassiali e sulla gestione del motore, viene gestito diversamente a seconda se deve aumentare la velocità rispetto a quando riceve il comando di dimuirla.Pare che tutto funzioni perfettamente l'obiettivo era quello di eliminare piu' microoscillazioni possibiliSaluti, Danilo
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First Flight of Hexafox_v2 that using the new revision of Arducopter Firmware developed by Ted , Jose and me.
In this video I need to optimize the setup of PID on YAW and is not active the magnetometer. Today I'm doing the test with magnetometer and I saw that I haven't drift on YAW . In this video I'm using Multipilot Board without Multisensor. We're ready to start the test on GPS hold function. The last version of firmware ... flyable is avaible on multipilot repo. http://code.google.com/p/lnmultipilot10/source/browse/#svn/branches/Redfox74/hexafox_v2
This is last Update on VRGimbal project , in first video you can see a big Handy Gimbal configuration from our customer
- In the video you can see the Pitch , Roll and yaw smooth compensation .
- Control by Joystick.
- Follow frame on YAW.
In second video there is an another great example of test doing by Robert on his Hely class 600 controlled by VR Gimbal:
comment by Robert :
Here's a quite test video from last weekend. The results are not perfect, but there was a fair breeze blowing (about 20-30 km/h) and it was in Loiter which we all know can be quite busy. You can actually see the landing gear in the frame towards the end of the video which gives you some indication of just what the gimbal had to deal with. Overall, I think this is pretty decent so far. Main goal now is to work on better stability of the helicopter and reducing Loiter "busy-ness".
Now start to work on Mavlink integration , the board work fine on small gopro 2 axis configuration but also on big Gimbal configuration as in the video.
Before to end of this month will be also available the control gui on Android Pad.
The attached Microsoft Kinect [2] delivers a point cloud to the onboard computer via the ROS [3] kinect driver, which uses the OpenKinect/Freenect [4] project’s driver for hardware access. A sample consensus algorithm [5] fits a planar model to the points on the floor, and this planar model is fed into the controller as the sensed altitude. All processing is done on the on-board 1.6 GHz Intel Atom based computer, running Linux (Ubuntu 10.04).
A VICON [6] motion capture system is used to provide the other necessary degrees of freedom (lateral and yaw) and acts as a safety backup to the Kinect altitude–in case of a dropout in the altitude reading from the Kinect data, the VICON based reading is used instead. In this video however, the safety backup was not needed.
Best wishes for a happy New Year from the team of Virtualrobotix
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