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by chad
Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:24 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Crazyflie motors not initializing
Replies: 3
Views: 2580

Re: Crazyflie motors not initializing

Those motor solder pads are really tiny and close together. They're also mighty close to a few resistors. Soldering the motors was one of the hardest solder jobs I've done in a while (I have no SMT solder skills). Can you visually verify (with a really good magnifying lens) that you don't have any s...
by chad
Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:09 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: [SOLVED] Bitcraze_VM_0.5 problems with OSX 10.9, VMware Fusi
Replies: 7
Views: 5165

Re: [SOLVED] Bitcraze_VM_0.5 problems with OSX 10.9, VMware

Awesome! Your blog post is great. I think you might just be a bit more then a layperson... Your blogs should be in the wiki -- they are all really useful. Well thanks for the vote of confidence!! :) I'm glad it helped you out! Only issue -- boot message is "SW updates are no longer provided fo...
by chad
Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:09 am
Forum: Support
Topic: [SOLVED] Bitcraze_VM_0.5 problems with OSX 10.9, VMware Fusi
Replies: 7
Views: 5165

Re: Bitcraze_VM_0.5 problems with OSX 10.9, VMware Fusion 7

Please see my blog entry about this... Steps 6 through 10.

The crux of the matter is that you need reduce the VMWare's hardware version to 7 or lower.

Good luck!! :)
by chad
Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:13 am
Forum: Developer discussions
Topic: How does scan_channels Crazyradio work?
Replies: 9
Views: 8376

Re: How does scan_channels Crazyradio work?

I'm curious... Does this wiki page answer your question adequately...?

http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyr ... s_scanning
by chad
Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:05 am
Forum: Quadcopters
Topic: Tasks for Quadcopters...
Replies: 1
Views: 3166

Tasks for Quadcopters...

I saw this article a few days ago on the Adafruit feed. The quad mentioned here is tethered with microfiliament line (which is kind of weird if you ask me) but it got me thinking that there are probably a lot of tasks quadcopters could do - especially nano quads like the Crazyflie. After reading the...