Season premiere

Yesterday I was out and premiered my calimero elektro sailplane. It flew well and I was glad to get it into the air again. I was worried a bit, because it is recently repaired and I was not sure whether it flew straight or not, but it did not crash so I am fully satisfied.

Anyway the plane which is supposed to be an UAV wasn't fully complete, I could have flown it but I didn't want to take any risk. I need to hook up the batteries in parallel, so I will need such an connector. There are also some minor preparations that will be need to be done.

Motor installed!

Finally my rc-equipment is installed. Hopefully I can do the maiden flight this saturday and maybe also my calimero-electro will do the season premiere then. The weather forecast looks good, just hope that i can get a ride to the field then.

It is alive!

Yesterday I soldered all the pin headers and tried to run the APM software, but it was not working correctly. The compiler complained about some missing class constructor. It took a while to find out that the APM 1.02 didn't seem to support the Atmega 2560 chip, so I had to run the APM 2.012, which is an unstable version but it seems to work fine.

Anyway, it is running and I have got some nice test data. Below is a video that shows the roll, pitch and heading of the board.