2.0.50 is a work in progress, but this video highlights the Altitude hold progress in the latest code. 

Changes include a faster Baro filter to reduce latency and temperature induced noise. Alt hold control using the throttle has been upgraded to have a faster and proportional response. 

Acro mode has…

Mission Log

Hi Guys ,

Few months ago i have bought the HK Bixler and planning to equip this bird with ARDUPILOT Mega and Remzibi OSD.

Regarding the BIXLER is equipped with…

developing the 32 bit revision of Arducopter and use and test it in different kind of application .

My company Laser Navigation srl http://www.lasernavigation.it develop different kind of technology : navigation system , 2d-3d mapping systems , drone :) So in the last year i'm working on a great project in italy .

We are working on the Tourism Web Portal of Bergamo…

A couple of friends from Slovenia invited us to the wonderful Triglav National Reserve. We got filming and R/C flying permits for the day we were there, slept in a beautiful and very peaceful hut in the middle of the national reserve, and played a little bit with our toys :) aufmschlau.ch was kind enough to put together a video of the weekend. Enjoy!…

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Love the yoga ball as a soft landing device, can't believe the pilot trusted his life to an RC controller though and he never had covers for all those props which would have sliced him up like a blender if things went pear shaped.

Awesome stuff, just totally jealous as we are…

I was looking for a parachute ejection system for one of my small UAV and I found the miga motors nanomuscle. Cheap  SMA system linear actuator (less than 10$ unit), I was thinking about using some instead of the servos on UAV.

 …

We have had our first snow storm here in Colorado, and the furnaces are definitely running, so it seems like a good time for my annual ESD Public Service Announcement.

What is ESD?  Electrostatic Discharge!  That little spark you sometimes get when you touch a light switch or some other grounded object.…

I Heart Robotics has a great report from the recent IROS conference on the latest from Ascending Technologies, which make the most popular multicopters used in academia. Not open source and outside of the price…

This video is of some loiter testing I did this morning of my Trex450 running the latest arducopter code, 2.0.50.

If it were a quad I might not be super happy with the results but for a traditional heli, I think this is a pretty good performance.  The altitude hold is very solid using…

This doesn't have anything to do with UAVs, but I did use some of what we learned with ArduPilot in this fun robotic project, which I thought I would share with you all.

My daughter has a history project to do on the Ford Model T and the origins of the production line. Given that…

Thanks to Martin, we had an awesome Drone Zone meet up in UK at Charter house http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/. It brought together folks from different parts of UK and Eoin flying in from Ireland. The geekiest of…

Successfully maiden'd the Geek Star this week! (Geek Star = MyGeekShow version of the Easy Star) It flew very, very well, better than I anticipated. Its still a little tail heavy due to servos being placed so far in the tail, but that can easily compensated for.

I'm going to use the Easy Star's wings for a while, but will eventually move to a total scratch built airplane.

It flies pretty solid at half throttle and can really…

Just spotted this teaser on their Twitter stream. Does any anyone have more info on this one?

It was already possible for students and teachers to obtain a free version of Visual Studio 2010 Professional but now this Microsoft offer has been extended to a number of other groups. One group being any individual who is thinking about becoming a web developer.

The extended Microsoft…

Hi all again,

Following my first blog post on DIYDrones few people have asked what Pigeon Post is and why I'm posting here.

The Pigeon Post project is developing a system of technologies and standards to drag the snail mail and…

Maybe this has been posted before, but I was unaware of this.

I have been assembling my quadcopter and as advised have used red loctite # 271 to lock the metal nuts and the prop mounts.

I have used it all up and bought some blue loctite #243 and have used it on some of the nylon nuts last night and have just…

Here is another thing that I did - 9) CLI – message when bad command entered - Add a message so users know when they have entered an invalid command.

So instead of just swallowing wrong commands it will be something like this:

ArduPlane V2.24] blah-blah-blah

Unknown command! Please try again.



Type 'help' to see…

Interesting article about Arduino....

The Making of Arduino

I was bored at the flying field today so I decided to do something useful, attempt to video an electric ducted fan.  Damn they are fast.