"Excelent stuff, am planning to survey a wetland area at North Berwick Law over the summer to help out the East Lothian Countryside Rangers, at least I hope to (waiting for the release of APM V3 to fix magnetic interferance problems). Will have…"
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Make latest release info more prominent
Started Sep 25, 2012 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hi Tridge, forum ModeratosWould it be possible to make the latest release infos more prominent? Something like a "sticky" post or a even separate category? A separate category in the forum would also…Continue
APM 2.5 jumpers
Started this discussion. Last reply by Alexandre Heitor Schmidt Mar 6. 1 Reply 0 Likes
I could not find a documentation of all 4 jumpers of the apm 2.5, does anyone know?Cheers,-SContinue
Stabilize not working
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Anderson Aug 27, 2012. 14 Replies 0 Likes
HiI am experiencing strange problems. When testing stabilize on grund it works as expected. In air, APM will send the aircraft into an inverted spin within 1-4 seconds ins stabilize mode. This is…Continue
APM 2 Status?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eagle Feb 28, 2012. 20 Replies 0 Likes
Yay I got my APM 2 delivered yesterday. Thanks to all of you who have been working hard to deliver this beautiful product.What is unclear to me at the moment is: - how to set APM 2 into CLI mode…Continue
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- About Me:
- Long time R/C pilot and software developer diving into the depths of micro controllers with a fun project (ArduPilotMega).
- Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
- In the computer age I don't need no stinking piloting skills anymore ;)
Also, maybe I start my own war and all it needs today are UAV's right?
The long term goal is to build an autonomous long range fixed wing plane. Currently testing hard- and software with a darkwing.
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Paul Feely commented on Simon's blog post Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Scotland"Great work Simon, I love the VTOL landing! You Maija looks great - I'd no idea you could get effective results in such high wind
Cheers Paul"
Colin Rushton commented on Simon's blog post Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Scotland"That's my clan's castle! What happened to the trebuchet? It used to sit right out front the times I went and visited."
Assistant AdminJoshua Johnson commented on Simon's blog post Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Scotland
"I love seeing stuff like this being share with the community Drones/Flying Robots capture the most beautiful videos of sites that no manned aerial vehicle could safely capture! "
Simon posted a blog postWildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Scotland
ResearchDrones and ConservationDrones recently went to Scotland to examine the potential of using drones for the conservation work of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. The team went to the amazingly beautiful Caerlaverock wetland area to obtain images and footage of the wildlife and vegetation in the area. In the video you can see some of the footage and preliminary mosaics that were made from the photos taken during the…See More
Simon commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Test flight of unmanned aerial vehicles at KNP"Yes, this is our solution from ResearchDrones, developed for ConservationDrones.
Best
-Simon"
Alexandre Heitor Schmidt replied to Simon's discussion APM 2.5 jumpers"Hi, Simon. This thread is a little old, but the doubt seems to prevail, so here's what I've found this far:
JP1
Your APM 2.5 board is designed to be powered by the included Power Module via the Power Port connector. You can, however,…"
Simon commented on Vladimir "Lazy" Khudyakov's blog post Life - like a roll of toilet paper, like long, and goes to all ...."It's 25kg where I live, above 25kg an experimental license is needed. Nice Job Lazy."
Simon commented on arthur.benemann's blog post [Update] DroidPlanner - Ground Control Station for Android devices"Arthur, I find your work very useful. Personally I think there are more developers with Java/Android experience than with Scala. Having Bluetooth connectivity would certainly be a plus, since it would also work nice with android phones…"
Simon commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post APM 2.5 Power Layout"This is interesting, care to share a little bit more about your setup (wiring schematics an configuration)."
Simon commented on Andreas M. Antonopoulos's group Telemetry over cellular IP"Hi guys
I see that there is quiet some progress in integrating the sim900 into the APM code base. Has any one here tested with a DroneCell (AFAIK it uses a sim900 module) so far?
Best
-S"
Simon replied to Guy McCaldin's discussion Changing the board mounting orientation? in the group ArduPlane User Group"check this: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/APM_Parameters#Board_Orientation_(AHRS_ORIENTATION)"
Simon commented on arthur.benemann's blog post DroidPlanner - Ground Control Station for Android devices"Yeah, that should work. If you get a serial connection and 5V power it would be possible to directly connect (for example) a 3DR radio to it."
Simon commented on arthur.benemann's blog post DroidPlanner - Ground Control Station for Android devices"Which android tablets do have USB Host capabilities?
Cheers
-S"
Simon commented on arthur.benemann's blog post DroidPlanner - Ground Control Station for Android devices"Great!"
Simon's Blog
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Scotland
Posted on May 8, 2013 at 5:56am 5 Comments 3 Likes
ResearchDrones and ConservationDrones recently went to Scotland to examine the potential of using drones for the conservation work of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. The team went to the amazingly beautiful Caerlaverock wetland area to obtain images and footage of the wildlife and vegetation in the…
Continue CircuitBee
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:03am 1 Comment 2 Likes
I just discovered a nice online service where you can share your circuit design. Eagle and Kicad files are accepted. From the Website:
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CircuitBee provides a platform for you to share live versions of your circuit schematics on your websites, blogs or forums.
Features include full zooming capability, panning, and even mouse over tips about symbols in the schematic.
It sure beats a blurry screenshot or a giant PDF!
Sign-up and get your circuit…
Howto: ArduPilotMega + USB + qGroundControl
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:30am 23 Comments 3 Likes
This document describes how to connect an ArduPilotMega with qGroundControl via USB (helpful for first tests of your micro controller).
ArduPilotMega
ArduPilotMega is an Arduino based Autopilot micro controller, programmable with C/C++. Arduino based stuff is nice, because it does not require much of hardware knowledge to get started.…
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 10:24am on June 16, 2011,
Junior Sammy said… In your tutorial: QGroundControl + USB + APM
why is GroundStation mavlink system ID set as 254?
the default on my QGC is 255
is there a difference?
- At 2:43pm on June 16, 2011, Simon said…
- As far as I can tell, it's up to you to pick a System ID. Only when controling more than 1 vehicle it should matter which ID you set to which vehicle.
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