{"id":80,"date":"2012-03-09T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliciapaterson.com\/wordpress\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:39:14","slug":"arducopter-drone-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/personal\/arducopter-drone-maiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Arducopter drone maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arducopter Maiden Flight\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/38205385?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally had a nice sunny day to take my Arducopter for it&#8217;s first flight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not as stable as I thought it would be; most of the flying time I had it in &#8216;loiter&#8217; mode which attempts to maintain a position based on GPS and altitude (using either barometer or sonar). &nbsp;Even so as you can see from the video it moves around quite a bit still &#8211; next time I&#8217;ll take my laptop to make sure it has a solid, accurate GPS fix before launching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three flights in total, the last one had a hard landing which flipped the quadcopter throwing a prop; all fixed in just a minute ready for the next flight in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally had a nice sunny day to take my Arducopter for it&#8217;s first flight! It is not as stable as I thought it would be; most of the flying time I had it in &#8216;loiter&#8217; mode which attempts to maintain a position based on GPS and altitude (using either barometer or sonar). &nbsp;Even so as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}