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Badger Smart Quad [Survival Ready]
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Päivitys: 26.9.2024 klo 2.51
tekijältä Chip Patton

Lights were broken, fixed.

Päivitys: 26.9.2024 klo 2.33
tekijältä Chip Patton

- Removed the hole in the bottom of the ship for the drill.
- Added a lot of computer stuff for ascent/climb rate and speed so the craft no longer gets locked in an over-ride state
- Tweaked descent rates
- Tweaked turn rates
- Set max speed to 85. If you want to go faster, turn the autopilot off and only go over 85 at over 3,000 meters.

Päivitys: 23.9.2024 klo 19.34
tekijältä Chip Patton

MAJOR UPDATE

THIS IS THE FINAL UPDATE

Other than small patches if there are errors in the computer, this quad is feature complete. I'm happy with it.

- MAJOR: Made aircraft control multiplicative of v/s thrust, not additive as it was which was affecting stability at high speeds
- Raised max speed of autopilot to 90 m/s
- Autopilot compass interface wraps around instead of requiring you to "reset"
- Added DTE (distance until batteries are empty) indicator
- Added TTE (time until batteries are empty) indicator
- Moved mining controls to the right panel under the ore scanner
- Vastly improved v/s handling
- Vastly improved pitch and roll handling
- Added Autoland feature (see guide)
- Headlights now have 1 button and 3 modes: Off, On, High beams
- Removed an anchor and moved the existing anchor to the rear for better balance and weight distribution
- Added Drill Efficiency indicator
- Added ground safety mechanisms so the autopilot "shouldn't" crash into the side of a mountain
- Cleaned up code
- Added "Time Server" code to the spare computer so you can setup your own time server on your own single-player o rmulti-player server.
- Tuned rotor RPM's to run slower but maintain performance
- Increased max prop pitch depending on rotor RPM
- Added alarm when rotors are stalling or reaching (or have reached) their maximum thrust capabilities
- Many other changes made that optimizes how the craft handles with autopilot and stabilization
- Fixed a lot of bugs where the autopilot or stabilization would sometimes stop working
- Fixed yaw to be far smoother and have equal power when yawing left and right

Päivitys: 19.9.2024 klo 9.30
tekijältä Chip Patton

Tweaks to the computer (minor changes)

Päivitys: 18.9.2024 klo 16.44
tekijältä Chip Patton

* Buttons for autopilot are far more responsive and don't double up your input any more
-- Press and Hold any of the arrow buttons for rapid increments
-- Pressing and holding altitude arrows will increment by 100, and 5 when single tapping
-- Docking alignment beacon added and automatically switches to docking mode on target mode for nav instrument

Päivitys: 17.9.2024 klo 7.31
tekijältä Chip Patton

POLISH UPDATE

This craft is "completed" as far a design goes.

- Added lift kit next to docking port at the center of lift
- Tuned Pitch/Roll/Heading/V/S stabilization to be rock-steady, yet responsive
- Added reverse course to autopilot
- Added "TAR" or target course to autopilot (see description)
- Added target selector (see description)
- Added Clock and Solar Clock "Client" (see description)
- Raised speed limit on the autopilot to 75 m/s IAS
- Raised service ceiling on the autopilot to 12,000 meters
- Added 3 flight modes: Eco, Normal, Lift (see description)

Päivitys: 12.9.2024 klo 2.49
tekijältä Chip Patton

SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS

- Added a dock and controls in the cockpit (yellow = armed, green = docked, no lights = unarmed)
- Significantly improved battery life by tuning the RPM PIM modules totaling 100 IRL mins of flight time
- Significantly improved turn logic and the PIM modules making turning more precise
- Combined all programs into 1 computer, but there is still a spare computer for those wishing to experiment
- Tweaked yaw logic so you can no longer flip the quad at high speeds

** Still waiting on devs to fix a crash when editing programs

UPCOMING IMPROVEMENTS
- Will tweak dampening on the pitch PIM so that it is more precise at low speeds (currently is +/- 1 m/s)
- Will add a clock and sun rise/set count-down
- I will deem this craft completed once I'm able to edit the above without crashing every 5-15 seconds)

Päivitys: 9.9.2024 klo 2.44
tekijältä Chip Patton

Updated autopilot to be more stable at high speeds while climbing

Päivitys: 8.9.2024 klo 15.29
tekijältä Chip Patton

More tweaks to autopilot

Päivitys: 8.9.2024 klo 3.10
tekijältä Chip Patton

Tweaked the autopilot.
- More resistance added to pitch at high speed to prevent -G rollout
- More dampening added to roll and reduced how much roll is applied by the autopilot
- Heading Hold is more consistent but still working on it (the variable does NOT want to update with button input)