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<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">You might be amused by the first
drone I built around 2016. I was running Ardupilot, it had a wood
frame and 10 inch props. I first called it "X2", but soon started
calling it "Lumber Quad" or sometimes the "Flying Hedge Trimmer".<br>
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The radio was a Spektrum DX5E which is 2.4 GHz spread spectrum and
I think I used a Spektrum receiver too. I didn't have any
telemetry, so I kept track of the time and used the feel of the
machine for battery state. X2 was heavy so I only got under 8
minutes flight time.<br>
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As you can see from this video I could have benefited from PID
tuning.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/13/2025 12:24 PM, Jacek
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<div>I used to fly fpv a lot, now on a hiatus. But I have to get
back into flying. It's way too much fun.</div>
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<div> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">I agree, he is
good, I've used his site a lot. Are you building or
flying UAV?</font><br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">if you're
interested in building drones, this is a great channel
for learning: <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaBardwell"
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15:17, Alex Fraser via Tacos <<a
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face="Comic Sans MS">PIDtoolbo,x has a YouTube
site, I am viewing a video on that site which is
at <a
href="https://youtu.be/ehvQm8Rqrzk?si=XKyL3DGHzVwaT8hT" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://youtu.be/ehvQm8Rqrzk?si=XKyL3DGHzVwaT8hT</a><br>
There is a good bit to learn and lots of
settings. There is a script you can load on the
controller to put the drone in "wiggle mode"
which is fun to watch. You get the drone to hover
and flick a switch and it sure does wiggle. You
land and then examine the graphs and adjust the
parameters to smooth things out. Sounds easy,
well for some I guess, me I'll be slipping all
over the learning curve...<br>
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I think the PIDtoolbox is now part of the
Betaflight configurator. BTW it does not have any
flux capacitors in it.<br>
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<div>On 10/10/2025 9:14 PM, Alex Fraser via Tacos
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<blockquote type="cite"> <font size="5"
face="Comic Sans MS">Starting to get ready for
Flight controller configuration. I kept seeing
"PID". Well PID is </font><font
face="Comic Sans MS" size="5">"Proportional–Integral–Derivative
controller" and I'm so glad they have software
that can do this for you.<br>
Interesting Wikipedia article <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller"
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