flight controller

[quadflyer]

This was a great April Fool's day joke hahahaha

[Kaen]

This was a great April Fool's day joke hahahaha

except it's real.

[quadflyer]

too late Kaen, the joke's over, it was a good one though, had a few good comments back & forth.
Far better that the "asteroid hitting Singapore" one I read on Facebook this morning.

[Kaen]

too late Kaen, the joke's over, it was a good one though, had a few good comments back & forth.
Far better that the "asteroid hitting Singapore" one I read on Facebook this morning.

pfft its a real challenge... DIY vs DJI.

[quadflyer]

It was going really well, but when you didn't disclose the name of the LHS, I thought "ah-ha", because if you had named the LHS and its not real then as this is a public forum you would be open to legal action for possible defamation of both the shop and the owner.

[quadflyer]

Anyway, it was certainly one of the better 1st April jokes I've seen today, congrats

[Kaen]

Anyway, it was certainly one of the better 1st April jokes I've seen today, congrats

It was going really well, but when you didn't disclose the name of the LHS, I thought "ah-ha", because if you had named the LHS and its not real then as this is a public forum you would be open to legal action for possible defamation of both the shop and the owner.

I didn't name them because they are a sponsor here.... and I didn't know if this will make them look bad.

[Kaen]

hmmm actually... i don't see them listed as sponsors anymore...

[wengwah]

I think you are stepping on their toe. By the way, I just want to proof my point that RC hobby can be affordable. It is not necessary to spend $10k or more to have the similar feature of what the commercial world is using. However, RC is a dangerous sport and you need some form of discipline and expert guidance too. Do not fly recklessly. It will take years of practicing, countless crashing to perfect the skill.

I had found jewel in arduino open source. It was a fanstastic community with brilliant people coming together to contribute.
We may come to a stage where open source FC can be plug and play. I believe that's the community who develop multiwii is moving towards that direction with more powerful arm processor.

Honestly speaking, this multiwii product will pose a threat to RC shop selling DJi or similar product.

The analogy is like people are going for LASIK and this resulted in lesser business for optical shops.

pfft its a real challenge... DIY vs DJI.

[boolean21]

agreed that opensource community has lots of talented people...

looking forward to the day when multiwii FC become like linux OS now compared to years back....
will definitely try setting up an opensource quad in the near future when time permits!

I think you are stepping on their toe. By the way, I just want to proof my point that RC hobby can be affordable. It is not necessary to spend $10k or more to have the similar feature of what the commercial world is using. However, RC is a dangerous sport and you need some form of discipline and expert guidance too. Do not fly recklessly. It will take years of practicing, countless crashing to perfect the skill.

I had found jewel in arduino open source. It was a fanstastic community with brilliant people coming together to contribute.
We may come to a stage where open source FC can be plug and play. I believe that's the community who develop multiwii is moving towards that direction with more powerful arm processor.

Honestly speaking, this multiwii product will pose a threat to RC shop selling DJi or similar product.

The analogy is like people are going for LASIK and this resulted in lesser business for optical shops.

[perdification]

Multiwii development is continous, now ublox gps module is already onboard together with the mega 2560, come with external gps ant like naza styled.
It will hit the store real soon. Pls continue to support n buy from witespy ...thanks
Will post pic on this board later.

Okay okay JK. Anyway Kaen, why don't you just accept the challenge, and state that whoever loses will have to give the quad to the winning party? Heehee, just build a cheapo quad and win the expensive one. Although I'm not sure if they'd be dumb enough to accept the challenge...

[wengwah]

Well, the point here is not about who wins. I think we have to educate from the fact of hobby grade type of fc. It can be configured with great stability too.

Okay okay JK. Anyway Kaen, why don't you just accept the challenge, and state that whoever loses will have to give the quad to the winning party? Heehee, just build a cheapo quad and win the expensive one. Although I'm not sure if they'd be dumb enough to accept the challenge...

[Kaen]

Okay okay JK. Anyway Kaen, why don't you just accept the challenge, and state that whoever loses will have to give the quad to the winning party? Heehee, just build a cheapo quad and win the expensive one. Although I'm not sure if they'd be dumb enough to accept the challenge...

Well, the point here is not about who wins. I think we have to educate from the fact of hobby grade type of fc. It can be configured with great stability too.

Ermmm.. u guys realise this is actually a camera gimble challenge right? The LHS just thinks that the DJI system will give him a bigger advantage.. thus forcing me into a different "system"... I can't even be bothered to get into the whole FC debate.

btw I don't suggest buying anything from witespy... he cheaps out on providing the necessary cables for the stuff you get from him. Total cost of buying stuff from him goes up because you end up having to make your own cables and connectors. Really not worthwhile because shipping from usa isn't cheaper for us anyway.

[wengwah]

I am satisfied with AIOP Crius. It has the flexibility to load diff firmware such as MultiWii, Megapirate and AeroQuad..

Watch the OpenSource AeroQuad throw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwPwg95EXcE&feature=player_embedded

[perdification]

Well, the point here is not about who wins. I think we have to educate from the fact of hobby grade type of fc. It can be configured with great stability too.

But still, if he accepts the challenge, it'd be nice to win a free quad, no?