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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:
I'm new to all this--where do I start? Are amateur UAVs legal? (yes)
Examples of civilian uses of drones Glossary of confusing terms
Posted by Joshua Ott on May 25, 2013 at 12:00pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
3DRobotics was one of the five manufacturing companies in CNBC's Disrupter50 list; along with Makerbot, Quirky, Shapeways, Rethink Robotics.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100727789…
ContinuePosted by Drone Savant on May 25, 2013 at 6:28am 2 Comments 3 Likes
Posted by Rogelio Nunez on May 25, 2013 at 5:45am 1 Comment 4 Likes
Here is my connection (You can check GPIO pinout here):
I used theFTDI GPS adapter cable, solder pads can be used also, just have…
ContinuePosted by vis.asta on May 24, 2013 at 3:30pm 9 Comments 11 Likes
First test of targeting system. All calculations are done in the air.
Camera provides two streams. Highly compressed (rigth window) and detailed (left).
3 axis BL gimbal. In low light conditions and excessive vibration.
test at…
Posted by Joshua Ott on May 24, 2013 at 3:30pm 16 Comments 3 Likes
John modified a point-and-shoot camera to capture near infrared images. This is half the puzzle in building NDVI images for analyzing crop health.
Information on the conversion can be found here: …
ContinuePosted by Bill Bonney on May 24, 2013 at 2:44pm 2 Comments 1 Like
A couple months ago I was testing ArduPlane and some of the different modes. I was not getting on very well in FBW-B* mode. If you look at the image below. You will see the purple track. I was loosing altitude and I couldn't understand why. You can see just before the path goes red, I'd lost a lot of…
ContinuePosted by Euan Ramsay on May 24, 2013 at 1:30pm 5 Comments 2 Likes
Nicknamed "Laurel and Hardy", for reasons that should be obvious.
Everything calibrated...time to get the PID's done! Well..once it stops raining and snowing here in Switzerland. :-(
Some build annoyances, which I'll go into in an additional post.
Laurels bits…
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017062404/b-go-beyond
Thanks to Ramon for pointing this project out.
Posted by jim C. on May 24, 2013 at 8:30am 9 Comments 4 Likes
Because the latter one of condor drone tests went very well in the navigation, I decided to mount the camera aboard the condor photography for mapping and the results appear promising.
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