{"id":1341,"date":"2014-02-16T00:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/majek.mamy.to\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2018-03-18T00:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:46:26","slug":"2013-ended-2014-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/2013-ended-2014-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 ended, 2014 is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to write something \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nOn some other blog I saw that one man have problem: should he write more small things, or less but longer and &#8216;better&#8217;.<br \/>\nI think that I have similar problem. I&#8217;m still trying to make nice posts with wide coverage of topic, but it needs a lot of effort, sometimes few hours of work or even more.  Making it in two languages simultaneously also doesn&#8217;t help:-) Meantime some small things are getting lost because I&#8217;m working on something &#8216;bigger&#8217;. And sometimes this way produces &#8230; nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so this is an attempt to come back:-)<\/p>\n<p>In bygone 2013 I made a lot of flights with my Tricopter, crashed it many times, installed FPV gear, tried few different version of MultiWii, even experimental PID by alexK (which is great!), I made hundreds GB of aerial footage (mostly boring:-) ). But it is a past now, the best way to go forward is to keep good memories and leave other things behind.<\/p>\n<p>So, as a small reminiscence of 2013 another spectatular Tricopter crash (I flew it without FPV and made few almost rookie mistakes):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YcnLww2tjc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nLessons learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>add LEDs to arms if you want to fly till a dusk or even during a night (I didn&#8217;t see orientation of Tricopter and that&#8217;s why I got lost)<\/li>\n<li>MultiWii have HeadFree mode &#8211; use it! And of course check it right after start &#8211; it could easily save me then, but I panicked and forgot about this feature<\/li>\n<li>GPS and RTH could be easiest rescue<\/li>\n<li>buy insurance policy! (this time nothing happened, but it&#8217;s better to be on the safe side)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enough about past, I think that you could be curious what could be next \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSo, that&#8217;s the list of things in queue to write about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tricopter yaw mechanism improvement<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyking.com\/hobbyking\/store\/uh_viewitem.asp?idproduct=29651&#038;aff=78124\" target=\"_blank\">Hobbyking 3-Channel FPV Video Switcher<\/a> &#8211; how it works (or not) and probably now to fix it<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyking.com\/hobbyking\/store\/uh_viewitem.asp?idproduct=42250&#038;aff=78124\" target=\"_blank\">MINI MWC Flight Control Board and DSM2 Receiver ACC\/GYRO\/BARO\/MAG<\/a> &#8211; pins description and how to program it<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyking.com\/hobbyking\/store\/uh_viewitem.asp?idproduct=27096&#038;aff=78124\" target=\"_blank\">OrangeRx Open LRS 433MHz 9Ch Receiver<\/a> &#8211; how to program it and configure, why it&#8217;s enough to buy 2 RX modules instead of pair RX and TX<\/li>\n<li>more about my DIY transmitter LCD88:\n<ul>\n<li>how to make DYI RC transmitter step by step (build log) using my LCD88 project<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thinking about moving code to Github<\/li>\n<li>write more about LCD88, hardware options, how to compile, define models etc<\/li>\n<li>abandon Atmega88 support and focus on Atmega168 and Atmega328<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Small sneak peek of LCD88 in action:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJA-a7bL9OI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you need to see some topic earlier, just leave a comment :-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to write something \ud83d\ude42 On some other blog I saw that one man have problem: should he write more small things, or less but longer and &#8216;better&#8217;. I think that I have similar problem. I&#8217;m still trying to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/2013-ended-2014-is-here\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,41,42,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majek.sh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}