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Sending a new waypoint with Mavlink

Hello,

I am currently working on a project to autonomously fly a quadcopter by having an arduino mega board send waypoints to the APM.  I have looked through the Mavlink API and noticed that there is a a function "mavlink_msg_mission_item_send" which

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Optional RC inputs to APM

Hello,

I have recently been able to fly my quadcopter for the first time, and have a few questions about the additional inputs to the APM.  From the wiki, I know that to fly the APM requires only 4 channels and an optional 5th one for mode switch.  My

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Beginning tests using Mavlink

Hello,

I was unsure of the correct forum to post this discussion and I figured unassigned fit the bill, please let me know if I should move this.

Recently I have been working on a school project to control the APM from a second arduino board.  I have b

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Priority between RC transmitter and 3DR radio?

Hello,

I have recently been working on a project that will be using a second on-board micro controller to create and send  MavLink packets to the APM2.5 to tell it where to go.  To do this I hope to read MavLink data from the telemetry port, and then

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