Voici un autre modèle d’avion que j’ai assemblé: le planeur Radian Pro de ParkZone.

C’est un excellent appareil. Je le recommande fortement. Lorsque je le pilote, je dois m’apporter une chaise afin de m’asseoir parce qu’une fois que cet oiseau est dans les airs, il ne veut juste plus redescendre au sol. Il faut s’armer de patience.

Le tout présenté en time lapse.

Description

Le Radian Pro est un planeur de 78.5 pouces d’envergure. Le fuselage mesure 45 pouces. Il est motorisé ce qui veut dire qu’il n’a pas besoin d’être remorqué pour prendre son envol et qu’il peut par lui même reprendre de l’altitude lorsque nécessaire.

J’ai fait l’acquisition de mon premier quadrirotor. Puisque je préfère de loin les options DIY, j’ai décidé de ne pas acheter un modèle RTF (ready-to-fly) et de plutôt opter pour un modèle livré à la maison en pièce détachée.

Tous comme avec mon Avistar Elite, j’ai capturé le déballage et l’assemblage de l’engin sur photos afin de réaliser un vidéo time lapse.

Pour le plaisir de vos yeux, voici le vidéo démontrant le déballage et l’assemblage de mon premier quadrirotor.

Introduction

The reason I started this project is because I recently had a bad experience flying a quadcopter too far from me until I was not able to distinguish if the quad was facing me or not. It does not require much distance before a quadcopter looks like a tiny black dot in the sky. Basically, I lost orientation of the quad and I had to land way too far from my takeoff location.

Introduction

In a personal project, I wanted to add 2 new devices to an existing quadcopter. The quadcopter was equipped with a 6-channel receiver meaning I only had 1 spare channel to control the 2 devices:

The following article explains how I manage to solve the issue: How can I control more than one device using a single channel.

Introduction

The following arduino library was written to use the findings found during the Mapping RC Transmitter PWM signal to actual transmitter values article. All results were wrapped into a library for ease of use.

The RcReceiverSignal is an arduino library that allows one to read a signal sent from a Remote Controlled (RC) receiver.

Skip to the download section for quick download.

Purpose

The RcReceiverSignal library allows one to easily configure an input pin to read a PWM signal sent from a RC receiver by attaching a RcReceiverSignal instance to a pin connected the receiver and automatically monitor each pulse sent by the receiver.

Introduction

If you ever need to use an RC Transmitter & receiver for a personal project, an easy way to retrieve the signal is to connect the receiver to a micro-controller.

However, decoding the signal to get actual transmitter values is not as easy as it sounds. You need to know the correct encoding and searching on the internet about the subject gives erratic results.

Here is the full article that explains how to correctly map an RC Transmitter PWM signal to actual transmitter values.

Introduction

If you look on the internet for “mixing”, you will usually find posts and articles of people asking for things like “what is the best mix I should use for this or that” which I think is not helpful. I think it is far more helpful to actually understand what mixing is and how it can help you improve your skills as a pilot. Lately I wanted to understand how mixing could help me in a personal project. I took this opportunity to learn something new and try to demystifying RC Transmitter Mixing.

This is an Excel worksheet I created based on the calculations I found for calculating most R/C Transmitter mixes. It is designed to help you identify the effective range of a mix (finding the low, medium and high values).

See my post on Demystifying RC Transmitter Mixing for more details.

Please note the following calculator is valid on Spektrum Transmitters. I did not verified it’s validity or accuracy on other transmitters.

This article is about how I did the maintenance on my Hobbico Torqmaster 90 deluxe which is a 12 Volt starter for remote controlled (RC) aircraft. I wanted to change the rubber nose to get a better grip on my Avistar Elite spinner. I ended up disassembling the whole unit before understanding what I should have done.

This guide documents the steps and tricks I used to reassemble the unit. I hope it may help someone that have the same issue. If not, then I shall use this article as a way for me to remember how I did the maintenance on the starter and which tool I used…

Il est 5 heures du matin. Tout est calme et on entend quelque fois le crie d’un oiseau. Au loin, un nuage de brume surplombe le champ de légumes lui donnant l’aspect d’un lac en mouvement. Le soleil colore au ciel avec un teint rosé puis orangé.

Une belle journée de vol s’annonce.