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by mgooch
Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:44 am
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Possible Battery Mod?
Replies: 1
Views: 2372

Possible Battery Mod?

I was curios if this could replace the existing battery on the Crazyflie?

http://www.mouser.com/publicrelations_s ... 2014final/

Seems like it could work but wanted to confirm with some of the architects.
by mgooch
Mon Jun 30, 2014 12:52 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie
Replies: 13
Views: 9931

Re: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie

You were correct. I managed to bridge the two legs on the IC. Did a little re soldering magic and got it to power on with out being plugged in. :mrgreen: Thanks again so much for your help tobias. Your attention to detail and provided pictures were very much appreciated. More importantly, thank you ...
by mgooch
Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:55 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie
Replies: 13
Views: 9931

Re: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie

I tried to solder it and no go. I also tried to glue it and no go. I am this bad at soldering? This seems like a trivial fix. Here is the CF in current state: 2014-06-26 09.47.41.jpg (The pic is a little miss leading, but I did solder it to 1 n-000091. Also I'm using the smallest solder tip I have a...
by mgooch
Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:31 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie
Replies: 13
Views: 9931

Re: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie

The OFF pad came off when I tried the previous described method. I don't know if it also ripped up the metal wire leading from n-000091 to the 1 n-000091. Here is a pic: 2014-06-25 07.01.02.jpg Do I need to also solder a wire in this little canal it created to make proper contact to this newly creat...
by mgooch
Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:08 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie
Replies: 13
Views: 9931

Re: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie

So I got my spare power switches and re soldered one on there. When I sodered off one of the sides, the whole metal piece came out (pretty sure I needed a smaller tip for better contact :o ). It exposed the black board so there was only one metal piece to soder to. I doubt I am getting good contact ...
by mgooch
Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:43 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie
Replies: 13
Views: 9931

Re: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie

Wonderful. Thanks for the quick response. I should be getting the spare power buttons this week. Ill let you know how things go. Thanks again for your help tobias.
by mgooch
Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:04 pm
Forum: Developer Discussions
Topic: [VIDEO] Fully Autonomous Flight - Working Proof of Concept
Replies: 9
Views: 10051

Re: [VIDEO] Fully Autonomous Flight - Working Proof of Conce

Well you have impressive modifications to the Crazyflie. A kludge of a quad-copter, but still very legit. I saw some of your other youtube videos and they spark a lot of interest. Informatics is a cool area of study and to be doing it with a computer vision group is a unique opportunity. Thanks for ...
by mgooch
Sun Jun 22, 2014 1:19 pm
Forum: Developer Discussions
Topic: [VIDEO] Fully Autonomous Flight - Working Proof of Concept
Replies: 9
Views: 10051

Re: [VIDEO] Fully Autonomous Flight - Working Proof of Conce

Yooooooo bro! Used python for the control stuff and for the client, but all the SLAM stuff is written in c++ using eigen for the linear algebra stuff. Speed is really important here, it only just runs at full speed in c++. Note the code is not really optimized and not parallelised at all. Nice. We p...
by mgooch
Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:04 pm
Forum: Developer Discussions
Topic: [VIDEO] Fully Autonomous Flight - Working Proof of Concept
Replies: 9
Views: 10051

Re: [VIDEO] Fully Autonomous Flight - Working Proof of Conce

This is really cool. Did you use Python to develop the openCV client? Did you make those mounts to hold the camera?
by mgooch
Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:43 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie
Replies: 13
Views: 9931

Re: Broken Power Button on Crazyflie

I reviewed some of the other posts and the parts can be found here:

http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyf ... spareparts

So now how can safely remove the broken switch and resolder a new one?