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Killed ArduPilotMega (Bonehead move)

Started this discussion. Last reply by Sebastian Gralla Jun 19, 2011. 1 Reply

I believe I may have killed my APM.  I accidentally connected voltage monitoring cable backwards which no doubt sent some 12V+ the wrong ways through the board.  The board still powers on but no…Continue

ArduStation Reborn

Started May 21, 2011 0 Replies

The code I've been working on for the old school ArduStation is finally at a "usable" level. For anyone interested please visit…Continue

Tags: source, code, ArduCopter, ArduStation

GPS hold literally "Spiraling" out of control...

Started this discussion. Last reply by phillip.anthony.smith Apr 17, 2011. 2 Replies

Check out this image. When I engage GPS hold, my quadcopter begins this spiral to try and find its way back to the hold position. I have to believe this is caused by a bad compass heading. However I…Continue

Tags: hold, gps, quadcopter

 

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About Me:
Army Warrant Officer with a interest in all things RC.
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Building and flying a waypoint mission on a quadcopter.
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Chillicothe, OH

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ArduStation Reborn...

Posted on May 15, 2011 at 9:35pm 27 Comments

So a few weeks ago I got my ArduStation in the mail. Since it is no longer supported under ACM2, I decided to rewrite the code to support MAVLink. So far so good. You can start and stop the MAVLink data feeds and monitor flight data.  I'm also looking into the thing's ability to show some basic graphical HUD displays (although note that there aren't pixels between characters or rows (bummer)).  I only have 9600kbps Xbees (9600 xsc).  So one thing I've noticed is if you get the data rate too… Continue

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