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First up, this post is totally unrelated to AeroQuad - I just had nowhere better to post it and figured some people on here may be interested. Cheers to Mikro for letting me use this blog area for an unrelated project - hopefully I won't spam the AQ site too often!

I recently purchased a Portal 2 Plush Turret from Thinkgeek. I'd been wanting a talking plush turret ever since I saw Jonathon Guberman and Leigh Nunan's amazing homemade plush turret. This one ...

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Hello All!

This is a University project build. We're designing a quadrocopter to aid in search and rescue operations.

Here is a picture of the balsa wood truss frame.



Here is a picture of the completion of Phase One.



Here is a video of our first flight test. Just a simple serial command to test everything out.

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So I read all the posts about not trying to fly your quad in your garage and I promptly ignored them. I mean hey, it's winter in Seattle and if I wait for weather good enough to do it outdoors I could be waiting a while.

Here's the video of my first "flight."




And my second "flight."

After I put away the camera I to give it one more try. That ended up hitting a column in my garage and ended my playing for the evening:

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At this point I thought everything was ready to go so I hooked the serial cable up to the Configurator and started Calibrating everything. For the life of me though I couldn't get the ESCs to calibrate. If I used the Configurator's built-in routine 2 ESCs responded to low-end speeds only while 2 others only had high-end. If I used the instructions in the ESC to calibrate them I knew I was missing some of the control range of the AQ software. And they also wouldn't spin when using the Configurator's ...