Hey Folks!
I’m not affiliated with OpenPPG, just excited for my order said to arrive mid February. Anyone else in the same boat here?!
A little about me: from Northern Minnesota, it’s freezing, took my 10-day intro class in start of January down in Florida with Orlando Paramotors (25 flights) computer programmer by trade (AI Engineer).
All comments/thoughts welcome.
P.S. for the OpenPPG veterans stumbling into this channel, fell free to share your wisdom/advice/hype!
Hell yeah! Fellow software guy here, just did my initial training at a small school in central florida. Super stoked about my order, can’t wait to get in the air!
Sup Mark, I love the open source idea of the motor’s software. I’ve clicked though their repo and was impressed. Once I get comfortable with the machine I’ll be curious to see if I can make any changes (if any) to improve my flying experience.
I’m with you, I actually built a throttle controller for a home-built electric rig my buddy made, which has been a fun project. Decided I didn’t have enough free time to build my own and went with OpenPPG mainly because I can work on custom features myself and contribute upstream if the opportunity arises.
What?! That’s sick, if you have any photos it’d be cool to see.
Sure! Here are a couple pictures of it. It’s a bit large, but for a first prototype I’m really happy with it. My wife is a mechanical engineer so I got her to design the case, can’t take any credit for that haha. We have more plans to adjust the screen location and perhaps move to a smaller, circular screen instead of rectangular, maybe add a scroll wheel instead of buttons, but we’re just working on putting some flight time on it and see what all we want to improve before jumping to the next rev.
