Recent content by kbowerma

I don't know how much power I will need. The photon, gps, oled and accelerometer worked fine of a single lipo but I know that is not enough once I add the light a siren. So I have been playing with small (500mah) 3s lipos which is adequate but I keep over discharging them. I have a couple...

Thanks that is a great tear down pic. I wish I had the guts to take mine apart like that. The reason I am not using a GPS tracker like RF-V16 is that we are building a platform to accept location and telemetry that can strap on any drone. (It worked fine on the Solo, but the mavic has far...

Yeah I would be fine with doing just one but it seems like they don't want to come apart.

Yes, I have the asset tracker product too and the case is a little bulky, I have been developing on the photon since it is easier to debug, but should move back to the electron later this week. The asset tracker library is pretty week, as is the ultimate gps lib. You can't even get...

I have been working on an external GPS location tracker based on the particle photon and electron. I am prepared to use a single cell lipo but would like to see if there is an elegant way to tap into the flight battery. I don't think I can use that micro usb port on the side while in flight...