Recent content by windcharger

the battery door is pretty solid, my only gripe with it is the tabs could grab more of the shell. but grabbing on the sides of the battery cover and tugging on it doesn't pop it off so I'm happy with that.

It was either ebay or shapeways, I went with ebay

Hey guys, it's been a long time since I've posted. It's good to see the Phantom community is still strong. So after being inspired by DeweyAXD's post at /viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7017 I decided to transplant my electronics over from my original Phantom v1. Now my Phantom has seen alot of changes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocqB6_y71xE saw this posted at gizmodo. guy was using a phantom according to description. seriously why would you publish this?!?!

I just strap it to my backpack, used a tiny bungee cord to hold it vertically while the landing skids were buckled into the sides of the backpack, had to remove the props and gimbal too. Placed everything inside the backpack with 2 batteries and the radio..and prayed I didnt fall off the bike...

Re: Goodluckbuy 2-axis Gopro 3 brushless gimbal tutorial/rev check the positon of your IMU sensor. for the open source firmware which it looks like you are using, the IMU should be placed so the X-axis is facing forward, components facing down. *after watching your video I noticed the IMU...

Re: Goodluckbuy 2-axis Gopro 3 brushless gimbal tutorial/rev I wonder if these current gimbals coming from china are flashed with the hacked Alexmos firmware as opposed to the Open Source Firmware they used to come with. Anyone purchase a chinese gimbal recently and can confirm if it had the...

I wrote a post on one other goodluckbuy gimbal, chances are they are the same v3 martinez board. if so you can browse this thread http://phantompilots.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=822

Do you guys do a compass calibration when you change such extreme altitudes?

Re: Goodluckbuy 2-axis Gopro 3 brushless gimbal tutorial/rev everything always looks great on the ground, your videos will be a different matter once the phantom is in the air. as for extending the legs, you can either pickup the leg extensions from simensays at...

Re: Goodluckbuy 2-axis Gopro 3 brushless gimbal tutorial/rev what firmware are you using? I think mine is at 0.49B_r161? I recall that I had issues with a pure pitch down on one of the older firmwares, but after upgrading to 0.49 firmwares it worked well

Re: Goodluckbuy 2-axis Gopro 3 brushless gimbal tutorial/rev I recommend using the Aux power just to keep the weight down

Re: Goodluckbuy 2-axis Gopro 3 brushless gimbal tutorial/rev @Cameraguy for manual pitch you need to solder a servo wire to A1 and GND such as in this picture @Sac D to increase the pitch more than 45 degrees hook the gimbal up and using the blg-tool.exe file, adjust the RC min and max on...

If you are comfortable learning how to tune a v3 Martinez board I would recommend it. To me, the footage is just as good as the Zenmuse gimbal and I'm quite happy how everything turned out and not having to shell out the ~$770 for the Zenmuse gimbal + PMU module. And thank you everyone else...

I just submitted my entry to the DJI Phantom contest. Shot entirely with the FG-PH3 gimbal on firmware 0.49b r161 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKvF88J-dbo I did add some stabilization but the gimbal works pretty well without it, comparing the video I've taken to some Zenmuse H3-2D vids I'd...