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CNC question

Started this discussion. Last reply by Russell - ScoutUAV.com Feb 5, 2012. 1 Reply

Hi,I'm thinking of getting a Fireball V90 (http://www.probotix.com/FireBall_v90_cnc_router_kit/ but open to other…Continue

After rough landing, weird motor/esc

Started this discussion. Last reply by Bart Oct 3, 2011. 7 Replies

Hi all, I had a rough landing in wet grass (would call it a crash but no visible damage), and when I got to the quad the ESCs were beeping. Shortly after I was able to take off, but no yaw control…Continue

 

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Seth commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"Since Bart seems to be MIA, I've fixed some bugs and added in many features to Copter-GCS, and released an updated version for beta testing here: another-android-gcs"
Feb 4
Bart commented on Chris Anderson's blog post The $200,000 toy heli
"Just to play devil's advocate, and knowing nothing about the specifics of this case, but having seen the other side of expensive projects; -"as part of" does not tell us what part of 20m went towards these things. -"has been…"
Feb 3
Umer commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more
"I am trying to use copter gcs on htc flyer. I have 3dr radio and bluetooth bluesmirf gold. How the pin connections are to be made between 3dr radio and bluesmirf. I have right now connected the tx, rx, cts and rts of bluesmirf with 3dr radio tx, rx,…"
Jan 9
Umer commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more
"More specifically can XBee Explorer Regulated be used with 3dr radio? "
Jan 8
Umer commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more
"Can this setup be used with the 3dr radio? "
Jan 7
Chinlin commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"good to know! thanks!"
Jan 5
Vincent Mees commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"It should work. I've tried 2,4Ghz and 900 Mhz with no problem. But not with APM."
Jan 5
Chinlin commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"great! Have anyone done the BT bridge  to 433MHZ RF yet to talk with APM yet? In my thought, it should be just to connect to TTL level TX/RX of BT module to 433MHZ RF RX/TX pin. anything missing? thanks "
Jan 4
titeuf007 commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more
"hi this feature is very very useful! it s a great opion for all users but it seem to be dead..no new since febuary.."
Jan 2
antoine commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more
"Hey, I have tried to extend your code. I am facing an issue with some missing C files. Is that expected? Antoine"
Dec 7, 2012
Vincent Mees commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more
"Bart, Any news on a update?   Thx"
Nov 28, 2012
Vincent Mees commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"Ah, now I get a hearbeat but still no data. bds is at 57600, same as xbee."
Nov 20, 2012
Vincent Mees commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"Any news on the development? I'm using android 4.1.1. , can connect to bluetooth and bridges appears but then I can't get any data."
Nov 20, 2012
Georg Mühlberg commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"there was a possibility to try it on tablet with android version 4.0.4 without any success.Same time it was O.K on 2 different smartphones.   It seems that version number is not relevant.  What is then relevant? Greetings from…"
Nov 5, 2012
Jani commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"Georg, Copter-GCS is running fine on android Gingerbread 2.3.6. Maybe you can update to that? Regards Jani"
Oct 31, 2012
Andke commented on Bart's blog post Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter
"if you can't update, then the only solution is to build it yourself from source, using proper Android SDK. "
Oct 31, 2012

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Quadcopter FPV in the Canadian North.

Posted on October 11, 2011 at 5:05am 8 Comments

After a few rough landings (cough crashes) and subsequent repairs, I got the feel for flying FPV. Canadian thanksgiving was this weekend, and there were still some nice colours in the trees. Just thought i'd share.

  • I'm flying a Quadcopter running ArduCopter 2.0.45…
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Copter-GCS with Mission Support and more

Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:50am 38 Comments

Hello all,

Hope no-one object to another update. For those who use this, I've set up a mail list at http://groups.google.com/group/copter-gcs so that bug notifications and updates can be sent to users.

 

Now for the updates:

I've finally gotten…

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Copter-GCS now supports MAVLink

Posted on July 9, 2011 at 1:59pm 68 Comments

At long last, I finally beat MAVLink into Java submission. I wasn't able to find any MAVLink bindings for Java (needed by android), so I ended up using JNI and wrote a MAVLink wrapper. It works nicely and makes using MAVLink very easy. Its available for download…

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Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter

Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:00pm 55 Comments

Hello all,

After some field testing, i'm finally ready to release a copy of the Android based, bluetooth GCS for ArduCopter into the wild.

For all the details go to the site.

Its available in 3 ways:

  • Install from Android Market ($5, largely to offset publishing costs/support…
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