In this blog I would like to share my experiences with my new project, an autonomous transducer boat, controlled by an Ardupilot. 

After a long time of reading blogs, searching parts online and planning, I started my project. My plans are to…

It has come to my attention that people are not noticing this amazing app that is being produced for Android to give full missionplanner functionality and more using Mavlink to your UNMODIFIED android device

Features: Follow Me (If you device has GPS, you can set your plane or copter to…

3D Robotics had a great weekend at the First Annual MultiRotor Challenge. We were there both Saturday and Sunday and competed in most of the events, including a fully autonomous demo mission with a Stock 3DR Hexacopter. In the Auto-Land Competition, APM powered Multi's got 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place! We also won…

Globaltop PA6C Gps module

• based on new mediatek 3339  chipset
• Real sattelite fix time 5-7s (in home too) before ardupilot is calibrated -module always get lock…

The UAV is a combination of a plane and helicopter. Therefore it is capable of hovering and vertical take off/landing, just like a helicopter but it can also tilt forward to achieve horizontal flight the same as an airplane. This is done in order to maximize the distance and the speed of such an aircraft.…

Recent development with ( www.interspec.org ) and University Victoria ENGR466 class, created the SeaMonkey ROV using a Arduino based control system.

our facebook group has some pictures this is a non profit development…

Hi all,

just sharing the latest video of the Aeromapper UAV platform in action.

Feel free to comment and share. Your comments and questions are always very appreciated!

Pretty soon we expect to finsh integration and testing of the APM2.0 on the airplane and will do photomapping non stop both for testing and work. Will share results and…

On 5/20/12 North Texas Near Space (NTNS) and Project Soar collaborated on a dual launch during the annular eclipse. Albuquerque was directly in path of the eclipse. The NTNS payload had most of the electronics that I had intended for a guided flight. That airframe is no more, but I have some data that I'd like to share with the group as a result. The dual launch was a great target of opportunity…

Here a video a the latest firmware of the ThermoPilot v5.2 (2012 version) which uses a new algorithm (MLA) tested in HIL mode on Xplane v9.70 during a full autonomous slope soaring flight in high mountains. The ThermoPilot is a full enhancement of the ArduPlane v2.28 which adds the Thermal Hunting capabilitie and some…

Here a video of the test of a Nimbus 4 meters wingspan electro-glider piloted by the firmware ArduPlane 2.28xp1 (updated version with a JLN mod). Test done in HIL mode with the AeroSIM-RC v3.83 simulator connected through the AP Mission planner v1.1.30 on an ArduPilot Mega board v1.

Test Mission…

Remzibi OSD with USB and 10Hz GPS

Copy hardware, but works great with Ardupilot.

Price: 94.95 USD

Remzibi…

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These instructions explain how to set up a Spektrum DX7 transmitter for 6 different flight modes, using just the 3 position Flaps switch (in combination with the Rudder switch). This way you'll use just one channel for the flight modes and leave the Gear and Aux2 channel open ...

(note that you have to use…

This is how it worked for my DX7,

I use various switch combinations of the FLAPS and the GEAR switch which will give you 6 modes;

(note that you have to use the DX7 in "airplane mode", not in "heli mode" to fly a…

Don't do this at home with other planes!  ;-)

In the first episode motor, rudder and tail servos are not yet installed.



Plane is home made, there is no ready kit available.



- Wingspan 150 cm

- Length 120 cm

- Empty weight without batteries 1.3 kg

- Maximum load with batteries is about 1.2 kg

- Maximum takeoff weight is…

Now camera has pitch and roll stabilizer. In some shots camera looks plane. Camera can tilt 90 degrees to one direction and 45 to other, you can see the limits in sharp turns. It was windy day, 4 - 8 m/s or 14 - 29 km/h or 8 - 16 knots.

Program codes are in…

TaigaCam and Ardupilot tries to look home position all the time. Camera can turn about 100 degrees. In Ardupilot there is no compass, and therefore it calculates flight direction once per second according to gps. That's why camera turns slowly.

This pan-system needs only one line of code to Ardupilot. In plane…

Hello!

Practically everyone knows that the nev version of APM was released about a month ago, it's still beta now, however a lot of DIYDrones` community members moved on it and have some issues, misunderstandings, and so on during the tests. I was also among them. Finally, I have conducted all the major…

My collection of links in the process of assembling what I'll need for an ArduPilot-based boat:

(The platform sailboat I'll use, a Soling 1M One Meter, the largest class of model boats in the American Model Yachting Association)

ArduPilot (original…

I made this video showing the Ardupilot dreaming, the HK´s GCS taking telemetry data, and sending Tracker commands to an arduino, wich is driving two servos on a Trackers base.

Thanks…