Custom Flight Parameters During Photo

ArduCopter Copter 4.2
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Ok. So I have a stupid idea/question. Is it possible to temporarily stop the motors when a picture is taken?

The idea would be to gain enough height to compensate for the free fall from the picture time, stop the motors, take the picture, and recover from free fall.

This would help reduce vibrations to the camera on improperly isolated camera set ups.

Yes, I am aware this is an awful idea but that makes me want to try it more.

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Test it:

  1. map the “EMERGENCY_STOP” function to one of your RC channels.
  2. Activate it for 100ms during flight, and deactivate it right away.

Disclaimer: this might destroy your copter, test at own risk. But do post the results :slight_smile:

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Quickly thinking :thinking: 9.8 m/s2 :arrow_down:

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You could use some dampers to reduce the vibration at your camera.

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@amilcarlucas’s idea is probably the best one for now. All the auxiliary functions can be executed from a Lua script as well so you could theoretically get a script to engage emergency stop, then take the picture, then release emergency stop. This is all terribly dangerous to the vehicle of course.