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Should we put him on spammer watch right away, or wait a while? ;) Ken

One of the nice features of the Hoverfly board built in OSD, though like most everything else Hoverfly at the moment it has limited functionality, good for battery voltage and altitude though. No OSD on the MK as I usually have it flying itself on a GPS waypoint route when I use the FPV, its...

This is what I use on both MK and Hoverfly, inexpensive and it works well. http://hobbywireless.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=404&zenid=20b13e25dd2b4411c6daeef7d2ab5939 If you scroll down the page you have the option to add a camera and patch antenna, I use the SN...

I just take off and then click it on, without hearing the beeps it makes as it climbs or descends you would just think you're flying a well trimmed MK as it works pretty much the same as regular throttle. The difference is it will hold altitude at midstick regardless of the conditions which a...

That's pretty much it. The hold point is mid stick on the throttle, as you increase throttle the MK will climb progressively faster and as you decrease from midstick it will descend increasingly faster. If you add a lot of weight to a stock MK you will have to tinker with the settings to get it...

I use both, depends on what I plan to do on a flight. If I want to pan from a location at different altitudes I do what I did this morning, lock the position with P/H then let it just climb straight up in vario while I hold a bit of yaw to do the pan, worked flawlessly today. If I want to keep...

Despite nearly chopping off the top left corner of a middle finger with wire strippers (very painfull and bloody!) I was able to finally button up the new/old MK Hexa last night. This morning I did a test fly in position hold using vario altitude hold while slowly climbing straight up to roughly...

Today MK released version .84 firmware for the flight controller, most notably it has the ability to do Points of Interest while flying GPS waypoints. Now you can set waypoints and have the yaw orientation and camera angle preset for each waypoint to keep the lens focused on whatever it is that...

The Silver Bullet flys again! Before I left for Texas I made up two new arms for it and swapped out all the motors and ESC's. I got a couple test flights in before I had to leave and it's almost as good as new. What I didn't realize when I bought new motors was the Hyperions I was using are...

They may be glued in place with Locktite bearing retainer, I'd warm one in an oven at around 150 degrees for a bit and then try it. You should be able to tap it out from the backside if you can find a sturdy enough piece of round stock that will fit through the other bearing and be able to hit...

No, still using the standard 310 mm arms. If I ever have to replace an arm then I might spring for the extended versions and try 13 inch props, but for now I think its OK with the current setup. I'd really like to try the Avertical camera mount on the AD6 but to do that I would need the...

Now back from my trip to the Lone Star state it's time to get back on track with the MK projects, here's where things are at... The Droidworx AD-6 is now sporting a set of Pulso 2814-22 motors with APC 12 x 3.8 props and the blown cap on the F/C from my voltage "experiment" has been replaced...

Aerobot has them, http://www.aerobot.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=92 or Quadrocopter in the US is stocking them as well http://shop.quadrocopter.us/Aerobot-12x38-Carbon-Fiber-Propeller-Pair_p_303.html. Be prepared to dig deep if you need 6 or 8 of them, about $50 US a pair...

Hook it up to MKtool and see if the F/C even sees that the BL is there, if not it's likely either a bad power connection through the capacitor legs or the board has gone belly up. If it does see it then there will likely be some sort of error code that may help diagnose what is wrong. Ken

Hmmm, lets see here, among the ground based RC stuff there's the TMaxx "MadMaxx" featuring all alloy chassis, Picco 26 engine and suitably beefed up drivetrain, a Revo 2008 Platinum Edition, mostly stock, a mini E Revo, highly modified and stupidly fast for such a small chassis... The...

Amazingly everything still works including the LED strip. I powered it up on one 4S and was able to initialize and start the motors so it appears to be fully functional even with the blown cap. Obviously the BL's have power regulation onboard as well, that was my first concern when I realized...

Sorry, no video here. I found out quite by accident how to get stunning performance from a heavy lift hex, feed it 32 volts! I got the two 4S 5000 packs I've been waiting for on Thursday, Friday I put connectors on and did the first test flight, still had 40% battery capacity after 10 minutes...

Lots of people love Adobe Premier for video editing so I downloaded version 9 trial and loaded it up last night. I took a 5 minute clip I did with theCanon Vixia and applied some minor corrections to it similar to what I would use with the other software I have. Well, it's now been rendering...

I don't know how APC got the reputation they have because quite honestly I find them to be pretty much crap, they don't track well, the overall fit of their adaptor bushings is poor, and the balancing is terrible. Unfortunately for some sizes of props, especially pushers, they're the only game...

Makes sense, the KK and Hoverfly boards both have the arming feature in firmware, motors will not start until board is armed, usually throttle stick down and to the left or right or both in the case of Hoverfly. If you disarm the board on landing as you noted, motors will not start regardless of...