Wow that's awesome! Amazing how well it works too. Imagine on the tail of a huge glider or something.. Maybe with pitch stabilization too- witch seems like it should be very easy to do once you get that far. Cheap too.. I gotta make one of my own now. Hehe. I have a couple spare Rev6 Naze32's around too. Thanks for vid!
Interesting, Andrew, but still not simple enough for an ignorant kite-flier like me! I think I need stabilisation on more than one axis for KAP, anyway, and would be hopeless at trying to build my own.
This is very cool. Could it be done with a simple gyro? Now we just need to adapt this concept into a pan/tilt (or at least a pan) so we can look side to side? Great build Andrew, and concept Jeff (7Demo7).
currdog44 Yeah I mean if you can get one for around $20 which I think you can.. It is a lot more capable than a simple chip, but it is still pretty cheap.
Hi, thanks a lot from Germany for the great explanation! I followed your instructions step by step and I did exactly the same with my Naze 32 but the servo is doing nothing at all. Do You have any ideas what I can try to make it working?
Good one Andrew, I had a similar idea some time ago to use an Orange giro stabiliser...This way it could take some of the rock and roll out, but still allow some feedback as to what the plane was doing while using the Camera for fpv....Can you set the Naze in giro config, as well as full autolevel? Love the simplicity m8...:)
+Andrew Newton Well, a true giro always responds to sudden accelerations, but the servo always re-centres after a very short period......Auto level simply puts in opposite control until level is re-established....Similar, but fundamentally different.....Been looking at the Naze....are you now going to add a GPS and OSD?
Andrew I will build a glider that has no control surface and no stabilisation techniqes because we registered a competiotition it is the competition rule. So we have designed its wing polyhedral, and but we have not tried anything any prototype. should we start with foam? but its configuration is a bit hard. i wathced a lot of your videos and they are perfecr btw. anyway could you tell where to start with which materials?
+Ilkin Aliyev Is it for indoor duration flying? If it is then thin sticks of balsa covered with tissue paper would be the best. If it is for outdoors and you need some durability then foam board might be best. Hard to know.
for outdoors. so assume that the glider will be released from 400 meter from plane. than it hase to glide in a circular pattern of 1000m diameter. I considered to make its fuselage from fiber glass and wing from balsa wood at the end. but for now i need to test my design which is polyhedral wing glider. if it is gliding properly in a circular pattern or driftin with wind effect. i need to verify my desing and than to start to manufacturing. so for test dummy glider which will be made of foam(you are recommending it) but i have doubt about how i will fold the foam i need something to laminate it? thank you
Of course, this is a true birds eye view. Birds aren't like planes in so many ways. And obviously they turn their heads to maintain a level view of the ground if they need to, probably all the time. Here's a slideshow from The Cape Islands website capeandislands.org/post/when-getting-distracted-good-discovery#stream/0 My favourite family of birds.
Hi M. Newton, can you provide me with the version of flight controller naze 32 and where I can download the software, because I'm not familliar with controller I need to set up, I use the controller zohd so no programmation with the computer. Thank you and have a nice day.
This was a V1 or V2 board, can't remember really. Best to use INAV and a SpeedyBee F405 Mini these days www.speedybee.com/speedybee-f405-wing-mini-fixed-wing-flight-controller/
Hi M. Newton, with speedybee, it’s the same programmation that you’re showing, because I will need your video to follow the steeps, thank’s again to take the time to guide us, very appreciated. And is INAV software can be free download.
Hi M. Newton, I think it is to complecated for me, I just trie to find a way to keep my camera stable, I notice once in one of your video you were using a servo air something... Do you know if it's still on the market, thank you
Howdy Andrew, did you spot that if you set the min to 500 and the max to 2500 for the servo settings you get more throw in the angle of movement of the servo?
Howdy Andrew, I made a gimbal earlier, but for a RunCam2 and mine has a short tray for the camera to sit on. It was only moving part way around, so I had a tinker with the settings, you get a load more extra throw in the servo's with the extra 500. And glad to hear you got a new mic! We use a Blue "Yeti" for our recordings, the quality on them is a amazing. It really does help. PS, hope you had at least one beer!
Howdy Andrew, I made myself a version of this and got to fly it this evening. It works brilliantly!!! It even handles rolls perfectly too. Mint idea fella :)
