Hi everyone,
Sorry if i ask a very basic question, I'm a electrical engineering student but I'm really newbie in drones. Recently I felt in love with quad-copters, so sorry guys if I'm a little newbie here.
I would like to know how I could program a quad-copter to come to me (my GPS position) autonomously, drop me something and go back to his landing zone. Just like Harry potter calls his broombrush when he fought with that dragon. Consider there is no obstacles, trees or anything on his way.
I'm not interested to use my phone (and its GPS) to communicate with the quad-copter, I prefer to build my own mini-device (a GPS, a radio transmitter for sending my coordination to the quad-copter or my laptop, a button to activate the drone when i call him) something like a smart watch but much more cheaper.
I would like to use my laptop as the control station.
Is it possible to do this with APM or PIXhawk ?
Sorry again if its so basic, or i posted my question in wrong place.
Thanks a lot
Sade
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As already suggested by Monroe, First get an inexpensive, small Quad copter for learning to fly and this will give you a chance to learn all the mistakes that one is likely to make and it will not cost you a lot of money, or do damage to other things when "things happen"
When you decide on a more advanced system, you may want to consider http://www.virtualrobotix.it/ Itally or http://www.drotek.com/ France.
Regards
Chris
It's work, check wires order as Chris said.
The HKpilot32 , apparently is ok. I've not used it. Just do some google searches to see if there are any problems with that one.
I have read that somewhere on this site that the digital airspeed sensor have the wires assembled in the connector in the wrong order but it was easily fixed... but that is for the airplane..
Try to have a radio control for safe, except if yo build a very little copter, It's not recommend to fly without a radio control specially if you want to experiment
A suggestion:
Fisrt face: build the dron with Pix
2nd fase: learn to fly autonomous with copter 3.3 firm
3rst fase: learn about the code
4ur fase: contribute with developers to be better code.
You are going to have a lot of feedback here and learn about drones a lot and fast.
5 fase: develop your own proyects :Good Luck
looks that only one pixhawk that you show have gps and the others no, and you need a gps with ext compass (mandatory)
second consideration: If you can, try to buy the original one 3dr to guarantee better support, If you prefer a chinesse clone for price, try to buy in a specialized Rc shop like Rc Timer, Hobby King, etc. if you don't know the seller
The apm copter come to you when you call and land in front of you or drop a package or take a photo with only a radio switch or a tablet or notebook you are going to love this proyect. ;)
If you have no experience flying I suggest the QBot from hobby king. Good start in learning to fly.
No doubt for you, buy the Pixhawk is newer, 32 bits, APM is 8 bits and new firms don't fit in it.
Yes, with a gps on the ground, the copter recognize where you are and work in consecuence.
Thanks again, i would like to avoid Pixhawk due to its price, but let it go, iPay. but i found different versions of pixhawk from 120 euro to 310 euros, for my project which is suitable ?
http://goo.gl/rjhL84
http://goo.gl/Ng3cDd
http://goo.gl/rVgRnR
Consider 2 phases in my project and i want to use the same hardware for both
First phase : Building a simple radio controlled drone
Secend phase : Upgrade the drone to be a Autonomous drone to come to me on my call.
Thanks again
start here http://mavlink.org on how to talk to the drone.
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