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Location
Greensboro, GA
About Me:
Retired Systems Analyst RC Modeler in fixed wing. Getting into drones with UAS4STEM program.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Team mentor for an AMA UAS4STEM drone team
Hometown:
Greensboro
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I hate to admit this but I have been doing the accelerometer calibration all wrong on my generic APM ArduCopter controllers! When you put place it level, left, right, nose up, nose down, and on it's back I din't interpret back properly. I put it…
"Thanks for your vote of confidence! Lets look at the battery monitor first. I can set the APM version to: 2: APM2.5+ - 3DR Power Module and it will write it to the controller. If you power the bird down and power it up the next time it will…"
Looking for general usage guidelines for quad copter using the APM 2.x controller. We have 3 UAS4STEM teams and all of us seem to have a lot of issues with the controllers. Do they not remember settings that are programmed into them? Do they have…
"I may have found it in a document called (SiK Radio — Advanced Configuration) by using AT commands. This takes me back to my old data communication troubleshooting days. "
"Tom, I got into the settings and everything seemed to work fine but now I cannot connect to the Quad with Mavlink. I keep getting a timeout. I clicked on the box at the bottom of the screen to copy the settings over to the local side and did a…"
"Thank you! This is so easy if you know what you are doing! I figured I could get an answer to my question on this site! "
A few of our RC club members are mentoring three AMA UAS4STEM challenge drone teams in Georgia. My question is about telemetry. It seems that only one QUAD can be operating at a time since a 3 drones use 915MHz telemetry. Is there any way to…
