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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:
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Posted by Joshua Ott on May 23, 2013 at 4:46pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I had a couple of requests for a still shot of the 12-rotor beast that Joe and Justin cooked up, so here it…
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Posted by Georacer on May 23, 2013 at 3:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
This might be a common knowledge, but in the last months I haven't seen a similar post. Maybe someone new to barometers might be interested in this data.
The GPS receivers return altitude data, but this is inaccurate. The error margin depends on the satellite constellation geometry…
Continue Posted by Georacer on May 23, 2013 at 3:10pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Last Wednesday I went out to the field for some flight tests and gains trimming. Other people where flying their model planes there too. We usually follow a counter-clockwise pattern while flying to avoid collisions. That day I was flying especially slow, so when I took the turn, I did so on the spot and…
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Greg Walker, the director of the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Integration, preparing a drone for launching.
SAN FRANCISCO — As wildfire season begins in Western landscapes that were covered in smoky haze for weeks at a time last summer, the federal government’s…
Posted by Dave C on May 23, 2013 at 12:14pm 4 Comments 1 Like
Can anyone put me into hibernation for 5…
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Posted by Christiaan van Vollenstee on May 23, 2013 at 10:09am 1 Comment 0 Likes
I want to let the APM trigger my camera and the camera I had did not have a port for a remote shutter trigger so I had to remove the button on the camera and solder the 4 points and connected them to a relay switch.
Posted by andre on May 23, 2013 at 9:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
ce jour commencement du projet de uav quadricoptère debut d'un cahier des charges. besoin matériel,utilisaton de machine pour construire ,l'utilisation de l'uav et les applications.
conception d'un plan et d'une maquette grandeur réel
Posted by lianpinkoh on May 23, 2013 at 8:30am 1 Comment 1 Like
Raw flight footage.
Just to document some early progress in the building of a multirotor Conservation Drone with thermal imaging for wildlife research (last picture shows the quad with a FLIR PS32 camera, yet to be mounted). Apologies for the shaky video taken with an iphone (had to hold on to transmitter with other hand).
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Every year or so, some research group posts a video of a "cyclocopter" flying. I'm not sure why (this article suggest they might be more efficient than traditional helicopters, and that people have been pursing them for a…
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Season Two of the Trust Time Trial (T3) Contest has now begun. The fourth round is an accuracy round for multicopters, which requires contestants to fly a cube. The deadline is April 14th.
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