New AQ user

[leopold1]

Hi all,
I finally decided it was time to jump on the AQ boat and cruise along.
My previous experience with multirotors is the Arducopter which I have been following for over two years now. In the beginning there were also the pirates who helped with the multorotor experience a lot.
After two years and a lot of trial and error (especialy props ) I'm very glad with the current status of my qaud that flies the 2.82 v of arducopter. RTL, Missions, stable, ... are very nice now.
I don't have any programming experience but I can find my way arround the code to change some things.

Since the announcement of AQ on the DIYdrones forum (jan 2011) I was quite impressed with its capability and as of the moment the AQ forum was online I have been following the progress.

At the moment I've been living with the idea of building a Hex with AQ but don't quite know if this is to far fetched. Reading the topics it seems that there is quite some hassle, PIDtuning a stable AQ multirotor. Are there any stable flying AQ hexcopters at the moment or would it be better to start of with a quad?

Concering PID tuning, would the arducopter pid tuning guide be applicable to AQ?


I'm up for the challenge and I am certain that this community will provide the feedback and knowledge when needed.

Vincent

[teramax]

shure i forgot some:





any questions?

[LPR]

Vincent

I built an octo for my first AQ and I don't recommend it, too many props to break. I'm starting on two AQ quads now and trouble shooting the octo. The octo has some strange problems after it had a run in with some water. Stay away from water!!!
I have an octo with an APM 2 board that I have not updated since I started the AQ octo 5 months ago. Here's a video of the AQ octo flying a mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7im1ExXEug

The octo was easy to get flying in manual but doing a mission and flying around in altitude hold was when I broke props. It even flew ok without the parameter file loaded in the AQ. I found to have the octo fly well in a robotic mode that I needed most of the PID to be default values.

Larry

[leopold1]

Teramax, we need to talk.
No, great hex and flight!
Care to share your setup?

LPR, Your mission didgo quite well it seems.Impressive how it flies so close to the ground.

[rwijnhov]

start here:
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1929

Start from there and move on while you grow.

[teramax]