Posts: 15 Threads: 3 Likes Received: 13 in 8 posts Likes Given: 12 Joined: May 2017 Reputation: 0  05-May-2017, 09:49 PM Hello everyone,
My name is Mark, I come from Scotland but currently live in Cologne, Germany.
I am a software developer by profession and I've been enthusiastically building electronics for quite a few years.
I am about to build my first couple of quads, an X210 frame and a tiny whoop like micro. Posts: 2,416 Threads: 51 Likes Received: 1,861 in 1,175 posts Likes Given: 3,315 Joined: Mar 2016 Reputation: 74 Welcome Mark! You came to the right place - if you need any help, just ask! Posts: 5,322 Threads: 673 Likes Received: 3,159 in 1,747 posts Likes Given: 2,032 Joined: Jan 2016 Reputation: 139 ![[-]](https://intofpv.com/images/collapse.png) The following 1 user Likes Oscar's post:1 user Likes Oscar's post • mmcc Posts: 1,590 Threads: 89 Likes Received: 1,283 in 768 posts Likes Given: 1,274 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 31 This is the place to be, not only is it a good quad forum it's a good forum in general.
I am working on my first build too and hope to see you post your own progress on a build thread! carl.vegas
Current Quads: Operational: Diatone GT2 200 In need of repair: Bumble Bee, tehStein, Slightly modified Vortex 250 Posts: 2,410 Threads: 136 Likes Received: 1,790 in 1,052 posts Likes Given: 3,302 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 50 Glad to have you in the family Mark  Never hesitate to ask for advice or ideas, share your thoughts and have fun. This really is a great group of people! Posts: 1,149 Threads: 50 Likes Received: 704 in 450 posts Likes Given: 1,189 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 30 07-May-2017, 06:12 PM (This post was last modified: 07-May-2017, 06:14 PM by fftunes.) Hello! Nice to have a professional coder here, i might need your help someday since hydra and boris don't do what i want...  (PS: they are the main dev's behind cleanflight/betaflight) Posts: 15 Threads: 3 Likes Received: 13 in 8 posts Likes Given: 12 Joined: May 2017 Reputation: 0 Thanks for the warm welcome guys  (07-May-2017, 06:12 PM)fftunes Wrote: Nice to have a professional coder here Yeah, I hope to be able to contribute some coding to the hobby. However, in general, I am a bit more motivated by making utilities and applications than writing firmware. Posts: 2,286 Threads: 38 Likes Received: 1,527 in 995 posts Likes Given: 1,881 Joined: Apr 2016 Reputation: 72 Hello and welcome from another code monkey! I cut my teeth on firmware and assembler and have written quite a lot of really low level stuff in C over the decades, so I should be a prime candidate for doing some flight controller coding. The problem is, programming started out as a hobby for me, but it became my full time job. When I get home after a day's work, the last thing I want to do is sit down and do more programming! Posts: 2,410 Threads: 136 Likes Received: 1,790 in 1,052 posts Likes Given: 3,302 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 50 (08-May-2017, 02:20 AM)unseen Wrote: Hello and welcome from another code monkey!
I cut my teeth on firmware and assembler and have written quite a lot of really low level stuff in C over the decades, so I should be a prime candidate for doing some flight controller coding.
The problem is, programming started out as a hobby for me, but it became my full time job. When I get home after a day's work, the last thing I want to do is sit down and do more programming! Ever notice an Auto Mechanics vehicle Posts: 125 Threads: 12 Likes Received: 86 in 45 posts Likes Given: 52 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 8 Welcome Neighbour ! Martin here from Troisdorf (South-South-East) of cologne. Hope you enjoy Kölsch as much as anybody else in the Rheinland. I built my first quad at the end of last month Good forum, good people and a lot of help Btw. I am a skilled electriconics technician with some expirience in C coding on Arduino hardware. Sounds like a good collaboration base ^^ I like turtles Posts: 15 Threads: 3 Likes Received: 13 in 8 posts Likes Given: 12 Joined: May 2017 Reputation: 0 (08-May-2017, 06:50 AM)Apicalis Wrote: Welcome Neighbour !
Martin here from Troisdorf (South-South-East) of cologne. Hope you enjoy Kölsch as much as anybody else in the Rheinland. I built my first quad at the end of last month
Good forum, good people and a lot of help
Btw. I am a skilled electriconics technician with some expirience in C coding on Arduino hardware. Sounds like a good collaboration base ^^ Nice to meet you Martin.  I did wonder whether there were other aspiring pilots nearby. I am in Ehrenfeld. I have always been more of a whisky guy than a beer guy but I decided to quit drinking about a year ago My electronics experience has mostly been building analogue audio stuff like guitar effects, and more recently, 3D printers. I have a pretty wide range of programming experience though, and I am always interested in solving new problems. Posts: 125 Threads: 12 Likes Received: 86 in 45 posts Likes Given: 52 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 8 (08-May-2017, 11:37 AM)mmcc Wrote: Nice to meet you Martin.
I did wonder whether there were other aspiring pilots nearby. I am in Ehrenfeld. I have always been more of a whisky guy than a beer guy but I decided to quit drinking about a year ago
My electronics experience has mostly been building analogue audio stuff like guitar effects, and more recently, 3D printers. I have a pretty wide range of programming experience though, and I am always interested in solving new problems. Well that's a really amazing coincidence. I recently started building a VOX AC30 inspired Guitar Tube Amp for my Brother Check it out https://www.musiker-board.de/threads/bau...30.647832/ Oh yeah i went out to a lot of partys in Ehrenfeld ^^ If you wanna meet up after you built your quads or if you need help building them, let me know I like turtles • Posts: 15 Threads: 3 Likes Received: 13 in 8 posts Likes Given: 12 Joined: May 2017 Reputation: 0 (08-May-2017, 01:49 PM)Apicalis Wrote: Well that's a really amazing coincidence. I recently started building a VOX AC30 inspired Guitar Tube Amp for my Brother
Check it out https://www.musiker-board.de/threads/bau...30.647832/
Oh yeah i went out to a lot of partys in Ehrenfeld ^^
If you wanna meet up after you built your quads or if you need help building them, let me know Looks cool. I built a few stompbox 'translations' of tube amps to use JFETS (with varying results). I started research into building a soldano SLO style tube preamp but then got distracted by the world of programming DSP instead. I would offer help but I think that you are much more qualified  I have quite a collection of guitars and my fingers have 20 years of practice so maybe that is more useful to you, I think I read (my German is basic) that your brother lives far away... I am totally up for meeting up once I have my first quad together and I get a wee bit of flight time under my belt. Do you know other people who fly nearby? Thanks for the offer of help. I feel like working things out and tinkering is half the fun. It seems to me that quads are relatively simple to build from an electronics point of view. Might be a bit different if we were desiging/etching our own PCBs and populating them. Although, the idea of making a custom PDB including all the signal routing could really clean up a build. But I am not sure how durable a home-made PCB would be and having a one off board fabricated is a bit of a waste. For now, my 'custom parts' will all be 3d printed • Posts: 125 Threads: 12 Likes Received: 86 in 45 posts Likes Given: 52 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 8 (08-May-2017, 03:49 PM)mmcc Wrote: Looks cool. I built a few stompbox 'translations' of tube amps to use JFETS (with varying results). I started research into building a soldano SLO style tube preamp but then got distracted by the world of programming DSP instead. I would offer help but I think that you are much more qualified I have quite a collection of guitars and my fingers have 20 years of practice so maybe that is more useful to you, I think I read (my German is basic) that your brother lives far away...
I am totally up for meeting up once I have my first quad together and I get a wee bit of flight time under my belt. Do you know other people who fly nearby?
Thanks for the offer of help. I feel like working things out and tinkering is half the fun. It seems to me that quads are relatively simple to build from an electronics point of view. Might be a bit different if we were desiging/etching our own PCBs and populating them.
Although, the idea of making a custom PDB including all the signal routing could really clean up a build. But I am not sure how durable a home-made PCB would be and having a one off board fabricated is a bit of a waste. For now, my 'custom parts' will all be 3d printed Sounds awesome man. Well technically I am qualified but of course it is absolutely hard to learn tube technology and I am fiddling my way through. The 20 years of practice are actually really useful since I am not playing guitar at all and my brother as you read lives in england. So to test it out if it works properly you would be a really great help. I am in a german whatsapp group of "team pornfly" xD I don't really like the name but it's a neat group of dudes who fly around Bonn. I can ask them if they know a team that's close to your area if that distance is too much. It definetly is half the fun! From electronics point of view quads are really easy to build. It's all just UART connections, a bit of sensor inputs to already labelled points (Current, VBAT etc.) and that's it. The only "challenging" thing is to reduce noise in your circuits. But that's mostly fixed by twisting the wires (even though it's not a symmetrical signal), taking care where you ground your video feeds and in the worst case adding a LC filter into the Video Voltage supply. I designed several PCBs myself for smart home purposes and know some german PCB Prototyping companies. I thought about designing my own PDB or even FC in the future since the PDB is really basic stuff and the FC is always the same Controller with some additional compenents and some custom programming. I think a PDB might actually be a neat idea to etch by yourself. But you would need to do some finishing on it, because bare copper is absolutely disgusting to solder if you want to use SMT components. Silver or at least Zink coating would be necessary. Btw. I am fluent in english ^^ I like turtles • Posts: 73 Threads: 6 Likes Received: 22 in 17 posts Likes Given: 111 Joined: Feb 2017 Reputation: 1 Welcome Mark! Aspiring FPV Pilot. Checkout my videos on YouTube |
