PID, gosh...

alex fraser beatnic at comcast.net
Mon Oct 13 09:48:09 EDT 2025


I agree, he is good, I've used his site a lot.  Are you building or 
flying UAV?

On 10/12/2025 10:09 PM, Jacek Radzikowski wrote:
> if you're interested in building drones, this is a great channel for 
> learning: https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaBardwell
>
> Jacek
> kw4ep
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 at 15:17, Alex Fraser via Tacos <tacos at amrad.org> 
> wrote:
>
>     PIDtoolbo,x has a YouTube site,  I am viewing a video on that site
>     which is at https://youtu.be/ehvQm8Rqrzk?si=XKyL3DGHzVwaT8hT
>     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...
>
>     I think the PIDtoolbox is now part of the Betaflight
>     configurator.  BTW it does not have any flux capacitors in it.
>
>
>     On 10/10/2025 9:14 PM, Alex Fraser via Tacos wrote:
>>     Starting to get ready for Flight controller configuration.  I
>>     kept seeing "PID".  Well PID is "Proportional–Integral–Derivative
>>     controller" and I'm so glad they have software that can do this
>>     for you.
>>     Interesting Wikipedia article
>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
>>
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