"You could always program a channel 7 option to disarm motors. That would drop it like a rock. I already posted the changes on issue 481. The code is untested but should…"
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CH7 Set Home & Disarm Motors
Started Aug 30, 2012 0 Replies 2 Likes
Hello everyone,I've been reading a few posts about needing a ability to set home location, and a kill switch. Disarming motors looks like the easiest way to implement a kill switch. So I took a…Continue
Tags: disarm, Kill switch, Set home, CH7
APM2 not Ready to Fly on LiPo
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kevin Schumacher Jun 30, 2012. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have a 3DR quad with APM2 that I've been trying to get to fly. But the quad wants to flip on take off.At first I thought it was a bad esc since I thought I…Continue
Tags: not ready to fly, datacard, flip
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Kevin Schumacher commented on Jani Hirvinen's blog post jDrones News: jD-IOBoard v1.0"@ Ravi
Just browse the source code from the downloads link. It takes you here:
http://code.google.com/p/arducodes/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FjD_IOBoard%2FjD_IOBoard_MAVLink"
Kevin Schumacher posted a discussionCH7 Set Home & Disarm Motors
Hello everyone,I've been reading a few posts about needing a ability to set home location, and a kill switch. Disarming motors looks like the easiest way to implement a kill switch. So I took a look at the code for the CH7 options, and the following changes need to make to the files indicated below. The red text indicates the additional lines of code. Basically, all I'm doing is implementing a CH7 option to run the init_home() and init_disarm_motors() commands. There are no checks for GPS…See More
Kevin Schumacher replied to Andreas M. Antonopoulos's discussion ArduCopter 2.7.1 Released"Since you're using APM 2.5, did you cover the baro as per the recent blog:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/important-note-for-apm-2-5-users-until-you-get-your-enclosure-cov"
Kevin Schumacher replied to hoquet's discussion Connecting APM2.5 Hardware"I would connect the Xbee to the UART0/2 that is in the top right of your image. That matches the instructions where telemetry is hooked up.
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/APM2Wireless"
Kevin Schumacher commented on jasonshort's blog post Arducopter 2.7 Auto-Flip"That's awesome! Can't wait to try it on my quad.
How easy is it to run code through your Sim? :)
My thoughts on how to do a forward moving backflip/loop:
Pitch forward at 10°/sec until 40 until - Gain ~5m altitude during forward…"
Kevin Schumacher replied to Steve Zeets's discussion High Accuracy RTK Positions with the LEA-6 using RTCM via NTRIP"I would love to get real time <10cm accuracy.
Another option would be using some post processing. Is there a way to log the raw GPS observations in the APM2 with LEA-6, and post process (RTKLIB) with base station data. Then update the…"
Kevin Schumacher replied to Brianman's discussion Automatic Waypoint Grid Generator for Aerial photography"It's a feature of Mission Planner. Just use the Flight Planner. Right click and select Draw Polygon. When finished, click the grid button at the bottom. Then you define the spacing and angle for the flight lines. …"
Kevin Schumacher posted a status"Took the quad out a couple of times over the long weekend. Definitely having a blast with my Quad."
Kevin Schumacher replied to Kevin Schumacher's discussion APM2 not Ready to Fly on LiPo"So after a fresh erase, and 2.6 upload with a new esc calibration I can get it to take it off and doesn't want to flip. So the flip issue is taken care of, but that's not what the topic was about.
Now, why does it need to be…"
Kevin Schumacher replied to Kevin Schumacher's discussion APM2 not Ready to Fly on LiPo"I did have JP1 installed, but I was powering from the outputs. Took it off, and now powered from the inputs.
Here's the video of the motors test. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC0j3OlIONM
It's all correct based on the…"
frederic rivollier replied to Kevin Schumacher's discussion APM2 not Ready to Fly on LiPo"I had the same problem last week on 2.6 on a octaquad config. The flipping at take-off issue arised after I reconfigured my ESC voltage cutoff and range, I thought I had messed my timing or something in the ESC but re-loading the firmware on my APM2…"
Michael Pursifull replied to Kevin Schumacher's discussion APM2 not Ready to Fly on LiPo"Look at your board. Find JP1. Is there a jumper installed?
Flip on take off almost always means that either the motors are connected to the APM wrong, or the wrong motors are on the wrong arms, or one or more of the motors are spinning the wrong…"
Kevin Schumacher posted a discussionAPM2 not Ready to Fly on LiPo
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have a 3DR quad with APM2 that I've been trying to get to fly. But the quad wants to flip on take off.At first I thought it was a bad esc since I thought I could fly without the data card, but it seems like you need the data card from the reading I've been doing. But before I figured that out, I changed out all escs from the kit 20As to my spares 30As from my hexa. I also swapped motors with the one that wants to flip the quad, to see if its a motor…See More
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