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R. D. Starwalt replied to R. D. Starwalt's discussion APM2.5 5V/Vcc Schematic
"This post is more for power connection issues but we do answer other questioins. What is the application for your APM? Heli, Multirotor, Airplane, Rover? How is the APM powered? If 2.5.2, are you using the 3DR Power Module? -=Doug"
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Gary Mortimer replied to Peter Bird's discussion LUASS / EuroUSC in the group UK Ardupilot Group
"There is now another way, look for Resource UAS. They have run their first two courses."
11 minutes ago
Jake Wells commented on Jake Wells's blog post An Officer and a Boxcopter
"Week 6 was approved with zero issues!"
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Hugues replied to Craig Elder's discussion APM Copter 2.9.1.b has been released
"Thx , i did not know that! Why isn't such useful info put on the wiki?"
13 minutes ago
Jarrod replied to Jarrod's discussion power gimbal
"ebay I was thinking of soldering to the back of the apm power cable but will most likley add a second ubec to keep it tidy"
19 minutes ago
Jake Wells posted a blog post

1.2 Ghz FPV with 2.4Ghz control- Weekly Video #6

Last week(week 5) I tested out a new FPV system using 1.2 GHZ. It works great. The only problem I had was that it was locking out my 2.4GHZ control. So for the video I used my old 72mhz radio. Let's just call it glitch. It glitched me right into a patch of stinging nettles. So I ordered a low pass filter from Readymaderc.com. Then I commenced to building yet another prototype.Back in week 4 I built a platform out of balsa which worked out really good. It had the typical twist problem you get…See More
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Joel posted a status
"Working with output values of the ArduIMU V2 and getting some awesome data even getting 11 satellites locked on the EM406 in my living room!"
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"Hi Markus, I also build a TBS and fitted an APM 2.5I put two strips of Kyosho tape but the result was bad (very bad). I now changed it to 4 small chips on each corner and will give it another try if we get some dry weather.Hopefully this will do the…"
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KM6VV replied to John Moore's discussion John's Crawler Drone Build Thread in the group ArduRover User Group
"I got the Locosys LS20031 first, before I found the uBlox LEA-6. the uBlox goes on the 'bot, I had thought of using the Locosys on a hand-held ground station, so that I could report back GPS coordinates as I walked the field.  Get the…"
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Anglebender replied to Anglebender's discussion 1.2.52 update = unresponsive drone?
"I doubt I'd brick my APM just by re-installing firmware, but even if I had to re-twiddle those knobs and wipe the eeprom, how could I connect between my APM and MP? Like I said before, the reset button doesn't work."
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Luciano Zanchi commented on Jared Reabow's blog post DroidPlanner for Android The best missionplanner alternative! Using Mavlink via cheap usb adapter (Follow me - PIDS - ACC calibration - FREE)
"Thanks Arthur. I will try it a little more and I'll write my comments here and my wishes on github. Thanks for your effort in developing this interesting app! Luciano"
47 minutes ago
Kevin Brown replied to Andrew Boos's discussion Hexacopter Thermal FPV Research Project
"Guy, I am out of town right now....Work Post some photos of what you have going on if you have not already sent it off for repair"
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ligbert posted a discussion

Live Feed

Is there any way to hook up live feed on a RC airplane?I do not have very much to spend on this.See More
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Jake Wells commented on Jake Wells's blog post An Officer and a Boxcopter
"They did say that the posts need to be about autonomy not FPV. So I got them in with the DIY aspect. "
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dionh commented on Hooks's blog post APM 2.5 from hobbyking
" I agree with jo buying from 3dr if you live in south africa is very expensive. The only deference is the HK apm has only got 4mb ram instead of the 16mb the 3dr board has Where the rctimer apm is a exacted copy"
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APM2.5 5V/Vcc Schematic

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power gimbal

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Welcome to DIY Drones!


This is the home for everything about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Use the tabs and drop-down menus above to navigate the site. (About us/Site rules)

This community created the Arduino-based ArduPilot, the world's first universal autopilot (planes, multicopters of all sorts and ground rovers). The APM 2.5 autopilot hardware runs a variety of powerful free UAV software systems, including:

  • ArduPlane, a pro-level UAV system for planes of all types.
  • ArduCopter, a fully-autonomous multicopter and heli UAV system.

I'm new to all this--where do I start?                    Are amateur UAVs legal? (yes)

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1.2 Ghz FPV with 2.4Ghz control- Weekly Video #6

Posted by Jake Wells on May 22, 2013 at 2:35pm 0 Comments





Last week(week 5) I tested out a new FPV system using 1.2 GHZ. It works great. The only problem I had was that it was locking out my 2.4GHZ control. So for the video I used my old 72mhz radio. Let's just call it glitch. It glitched me right into a patch of stinging nettles. So I ordered a low pass filter from Readymaderc.com. Then I commenced to building yet…

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6 Modes on a Futaba T9CAP

Posted by Bryan Cherry on May 22, 2013 at 1:00pm 0 Comments

Here is how I got 6 modes out of my T9CAP 

Under AUX CH set CH 5 to Sw C

End points I set ch 5:GEAR to +/- 120%

Under Mix 1                                    Mix 2                                   Mix 3

MAS>…

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VR Copter X6+ VR Direct Drive Gimbal is coming ... the first fly ...

Posted by Roberto Navoni on May 22, 2013 at 3:25am 1 Comment

 

Dear Friends, 

our Flight Teams beta tester star to test a  VR Copter Fly Cam configuration. This is the hexa copter used by our beta tester for doing this video :

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Hex demostrated in San Francisco

Posted by Hex Air Robot on May 22, 2013 at 1:30am 2 Comments

The demo day was held at Autodesk.

At HAXLR8R’s demo day, ten hot hardware startups presented their products after completing a 15-week…

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Data Bus mbed baseboards: Tindie Fundraiser

Posted by Bot Thoughts on May 21, 2013 at 2:30pm 0 Comments

Data Bus mbed baseboards are now available on Tindie as a fundraiser! I figured maybe some folks wanted to experiment with their own algorithms and want a head start on their 2014 AVC ground vehicle entry.…

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The Ardupilot controlled transducer boat part 2

Posted by Burkhard rieck on May 21, 2013 at 12:00pm 8 Comments

As I already mentioned on the first page, mygoal was to construct a boat that could drive for at least 4 hours without charging while I could catch some fish :-). To reach that goal, my boat should weigh around 4 kg and the capacity of the batteries should be quite high. After a lot of searching in the internet, I…

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The Ardupilot controlled transducer boat part 1

Posted by Burkhard rieck on May 21, 2013 at 12:00pm 1 Comment

In this blog I would like to share my experiences with my new project, an autonomous transducer boat, controlled by an Ardupilot. 

After a long time of reading blogs, searching parts online and planning, I started my project. My plans are to…

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APM 2.5 from hobbyking

Posted by Hooks on May 21, 2013 at 11:33am 56 Comments

Hmmm Now hobbyking is selling:

ArduPilot Mega V2.5 Flight Controller USB/GYRO/ACC/MAG/BARO

 

72 USD for the hobbyking APM 2.5…

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Video and Datalink Antenna for airborne and ground tracking systems

Posted by Gisela & Joe Noci on May 21, 2013 at 8:52am 6 Comments

Some developments on 2.4GHz video link and 868MHz datalink antenna systems:

          Measuring the 2.4GHz Antenna SWR

                         The Ground Tracking Antenna…

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First flight for Triton

First flight for Triton

The Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight May 22 from our facility in Palmdale, Calif. The flight, which was about 1.5 hours successfully demonstrated control systems that allow Triton to operate autonomously. Triton is specially designed to fly surveillance missions up to 24 hours at altitudes of more than 10 miles, allowing coverage out to 2,000 nautical miles. The system’s advanced suite of sensors can detect and automatically classify different types of ships. Bookmark It Hide Sites

Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, ‘Built for the elements’ The movie

Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, ‘Built for the elements’ The movie

‘Built for the elements’ is a non-standard movie filmed in slow motion – 1,200 frames per second – with a high speed Phantom Flex camera. A true technical challenge, it offers stunning images that feature the robustness and the power of the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, definitely a one-of-a-kind quadricopter! The film will premiere May 22 on www.youtube.com/ardrone. The machine faced with the elements Lighting in chiaroscuro, a black set whose boundaries aren’t visible… The scenery is arranged. The singular shapes of the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 appear in a halo of light… Its engines pushed to their maximum, the quadricopter throws itself in a mad dash during which it has to brave the elements rising up in front of it, like water or fire… The extreme slow-motion enabled by the high speed Phantom Flex camera reveal the magical and fascinating spectacle of the sturdiness of the machine, faced with the elements: the flames sucked up by the rotational motion of the propellers; droplets exploding on its blades… The soundtrack, an astonishing metal rock version of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, highlights the beauty of the images and the power of the flying machine. Freeze frame To make such precise images, Parrot used, for the [...]

Russia to test drones to monitor wildlife and track poachers

Russia to test drones to monitor wildlife and track poachers

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Officials say they’ll test unmanned aerial vehicles at a nature reserve on Russia’s Pacific coast this summer to monitor wildlife and crack down on poachers. “UAVs are silent and can fly at a very low altitude to produce high-resolution imagery and detect poachers, their boats and vehicles,” Alexandra Filatkina, deputy director for development at the Kronotsky nature reserve on the Kamchatka Peninsula, told RIA Novosti Friday. Images from the drones will not only spot trails left by poachers’ vehicles but can also spot illegal logging sites and waste dumps, she said. Officials said the drones will greatly reduce the cost of aerial monitoring animals like brown bears, reindeer and snow sheep. Last year, the South Kamchatka Federal Reserve spent more than $32,000 on monitoring brown bears alone, officials said. The drones, which weigh about 5 pounds and have a range of 40 miles, will be equipped with inexpensive cameras capable of taking a photograph every two seconds, Filatkina said. The test at Kronosky will determine whether they can be used in other wildlife sanctuaries across Russia, she said. http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/05/17/Russia-to-test-drones-to-monitor-wildlife-and-track-poachers/UPI-44531368820052/   Bookmark It Hide Sites

DreamHammer Announces First Commercially Available Software that can control any Drone or Robot

DreamHammer Announces First Commercially Available Software that can control any Drone or Robot

SANTA MONICA, Calif – DreamHammer announced the beta launch of its drone control software.  Called Ballista®, the software is an intelligent control platform that for the first time integrates unrelated unmanned drones and robots from different manufacturers into one system.  Ballista is poised to become the industry standard for drone and robot control software for the multi-billion dollar global unmanned systems industry. “Ballista® is designed to the highest military and safety critical standards but goes beyond military applications to work with all unmanned drones and robots. It is commercial off-the-shelf software, when applied to different industries — for example,transportation, logistics, agriculture, law enforcement, etc. — can be used to link multiple drones into one master system, all controlled by one person,” said Nelson Paez, CEO of DreamHammer.  “A drone could be as simple as a farm tractor or as complicated as an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle or a satellite. It can be anything with a computer interface that is leveraging intelligence, technology and diversified control. ”DreamHammer, which had revenues of $6 million in 2012, has been licensing thesoftware and providing support to defense, intelligence, and homeland securitycustomers as well as their industrial base of manufacturers and integrators inadvance of the general [...]

Rocky Mountain AUVSI “Unmanned Aerial Systems – 2013 Annual Symposium”

Rocky Mountain AUVSI "Unmanned Aerial Systems - 2013 Annual Symposium"

Date: May 30th, 2013 Proposed Agenda (subject to change) 7:30 – 8:30: Registration 8:30 – 8:45: Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:30: Keynote Speaker 9:30 – 10:30: Break/Expo 10:30 – 11:15: Presentation 11:15 – 12:00p: Presentation 12:00 – 1:30: Lunch/Expo 1:30 – 5:00 Presentation 5:00 – 7:00: Networking/Expo Where: Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum 7711 East Academy Boulevard Denver, CO 80230 Register now for the Rocky Mountain AUVSI 2013 Annual Symposium. Join us and do some networking!  Includes Lunch! There are a limited amount registrations available so please sign up ASAP.  Please follow the link below (pay via PayPal). Admission: $65- AUVSI Member  $95 – Non-Member $145 – Non-Member (includes AUVSI Membership)             Sponsorships: $2,000 – Platinum Corporate (Includes short presentation, primary venue sponsor, name on main banner and advertising.  Includes 3 emplyee registrations.) $1,000 – Diamond Corporate (Sponsorships available for: 1) Registration (Lanyards) 2) Beverages (coffee, juice, water) all day. 3) Lunch 4) Networking event.  All the above includes a booth 2 emplyee registrations and printed advertisement recognition.) $395 – Gold Exhibitor Participant (Includes 2 emplyee admissions, booths space and attendace to all daily activities) http://www.auvsi.org/Rocky_Mountain_Chapter_of_AUVSI/Home/ Bookmark It Hide Sites

UAV news from Flight Global

Maritime Heron UAV supports European airspace trial

Europe has advanced a project to prove the feasibility of using satellite communications to enable UAS operations in non-segregated airspace ...

Brazilian navy begins UAS evaluation

The Brazilian navy has begun to evaluate two Israeli-made unmanned air systems for maritime surveillance missions ...

Indian air force to launch micro UAS evaluation

The Indian air force is to evaluate several micro unmanned air systems from around 10 companies in early May ...

VIDEO: Eurocopter demonstrates unmanned EC145

Eurocopter has unveiled an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV), based on its EC145 light twin, which has been in development since September 2011.

Israeli F-16 downs another Hezbollah UAV

An Israeli air force Lockheed Martin F-16 has shot down an unmanned air vehicle launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah militants ...

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