Hi all,I'd like to put the call out to any firmware gurus tinkering with custom flight control, or anyone's who's already solved some of the problems related to creating custom multirotor platforms on Pixhawk hardware.I have been deliberating over wh
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I'm new here and totally new to drones. To give a little background, I'm a Science Teacher in Australia. I have just started to teach a STEM subject to year 7 and 8 students, and as part of this I am building drones. I have no experience with
Read more…I have two cheap quadcopters. A skyviper 2700, and an even cheaper non branded quad. Both have 20mm x 8mm brushed motors in a fixed gearbox. I was wondering if I could dismantle both, and wire them together to create an octocopter. I can't find this
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I've seen several different companies and hobbyists pull this off so far. The griff300 is capable of hauling 300lbs short distances for example so I know this is possible. They keep the specs on the motors for these vehicles pretty close to the vest
Read more…Hello, I would like to ask if I can use my external module as compass and disable my GPS functionality. I am having some issues while trying to connect the GPS because it was bought with APM 2.6 which I destroyed and now there is a problem connecting
Read more…I want to design an octocopter that will respond to incidences of crime and terrorist attacks. Survey and gather intel and come back to HQ
I want this Octocopter to carry radioactive/chemical testing equipment and have a flight time of 45 mins
How like
Read more…Are you looking for faster setting parts of FPV for racing? I collected and made a list as below, How about these configurations of FPV 180mm?
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I have a Benewake TF02 LiDAR sensor, it is currently outputting the data in the standard serial format. How can I change its ouput to the Data Format of Serial Port Pix ? I want to connect it to the latest version of Pixhawk, I'll test it
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I wish to switch my camera on and off with respect to altitude. I would like to do this to retract and protect the lens. Something like altitude >50m switch the camera on; altitude <45m switch the camera off.
I have a camera trigger that has two RC
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I'm going to purchase these two sensors for my hexacopter build and am curious if these are good products and a good
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So I had trouble getting my Pixhawk to arm without the GPS. All the information I found on this site and online about flying in GPS denied environments only applied for Mission Planner and its APM firmware. After doing some digging on the QGROUNDCONT
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I am working on a chip design that consists of a PIC micro-controller and several sensors (e.g. light, etc) and a GNSS (Ublox M8Q). I was able to communicate these sensors with the PIC via I2C bus (PIC acts as the master and all sensors ac
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I was wondering if anyone on here has ever worked with or knows much about the VLP-16 with the Pixhawk 2.1 and Here+ RTK GPS. I'm currently working on a project and have built a quad copter using the PIxhawk and Here and now I'm wanting to attach
Read more…My QGC freezes at this point. The blue status bar freezes in different places. Any idea how to fix this??
Ive tried 2 instances of QGC, one that i built from source, and another that i installed. both freeze at this point.
the pix lights are
Read more…Has anyone used the OPS241-A radar sensor from OmniPreSense?
I'm new to Arduplane, but is it possible to have an aircraft be a pure glider (no motor)? How would I set it up to work this way?
I'll be sending a high altitude balloon up to film the eclipse this monday, and I want to return the cameras via glider,
Read more…I just finally gathered all the cash i need for my dream copter build. The purpose of this build is to gain a higher level of expertise in the small UAV field. I am going to document the build.
Would really appreciate a review of the parts and purcha
Read more…I just went through the configuration for setting up autotakeoff on my plane. I am testing the take off as part of a route. When I trigger the route while on the runway, the motor will not spool up. I get no throttle. I tried going to full thrott
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