I got it, “flying”…on a gimbal I built awhile back as a tool I’ll use for evaluating some attitude controller schemes as mentioned above (specifically here)
I’m glad I put it in the gimbal mount. It was a convenient way to calibrate the compass in particular. Also, given I have never flown anything it is good for me to mess with the stick with the thing pinned but able to thrust, roll, pitch, and yaw as you can see in the video.
My throttle failsafe is bugging me so I have that disabled and need to revisit. I’m also a bit sketchy on the “mode” options and using switches on my RC transmitter to change that. I’ll figure that out and post it later…it seems a bit confusing, but I DID follow-up on the Taranis Q X7 setup as mentioned above:
-I remapped the sticks for thrust and yaw on the right stick.
-I assigned the switches I’ll use for “mode” changing.
I’ll do another video of the RC transmitter setup when I also get into, “mode” changing later. For now I need some manual stick time and I don’t need to mode change.
For now, this looks like it will fly once I let it live free of the gimbal! I could tune it right here, or maybe I’ll get some time on it and toss it back on the gimbal later.
This was a load test for my gimbal too. You can see some flex in the arms as I expected but I’m OK with that. I want it somewhat light to not be a huge factor in the eventual analysis of the controllers I’m messing with.