Discussions

Using only one Hall sensor for 3 phase BLDC

dear my friends

Is it possible to use only one Hall sensor to determine the position of rotor in BLDC? I thought that maybe it's possible to count the magnets by only one Hall sensor and switching the mosfets. For example we have a 12 poles rotor with

Sonar sensor with pixhawk

I have been trying interfacing the MB1242 Sonar sensor with pixhawk as this link explained belowhttp://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-rangefinder-maxbotixi2c.htmlBut I have not been getting any good results..Is it possible or not the i2c sonar inte

Bad logging error in Mission planner

Dear Friends,My Mission Planner showing " Bad logging" error, please guide what will happen if I fly with that error.Flight control board is Pixhawk.Flight controler Mission plannerPlease reply.

NEED HELP ESC

So, I setup my very first quad and plugged everything together. so that it would be Hovertest ready.

Or at least I thought it was ready. I had plugged in the battery several times before. I plugged in the battery and the black servo wire on the qbrain

Extract in pixhawk the GPS coordinates corrected by RTK

Hello, first of all thanks for all the info in this forum. This is my first post.I am thinking of a project in which I will fly with my pixhawk and correct its flight with RTK system (possibly Emlid Reach https://emlid.com/reach/). I have been watchi

communicating with the Pixhawk

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Pixhawk PX4 with x4rsb/XSR and QX7

So I have tried for a WEEK now to get my new Pixhawk to work with my new X4RSB and my QX7. The Pixhawk is setting up fine via USB but I am stuck on the binding. I have tried every combination of firmware (frk) files from the Frsky website with no luc

Tips for DIY (exceed Mavic spec)

Hi,

I'm new to quads but I've done quite a few months of research on the components and programming, and am quite keen on now spending some money to build my own quad.

Obviously my research will not compare to the experience you guys collectively have

what the best size of prop for my hexacopter

hi, I have a tarot motor 4006 620kv, but I do not find much data from this type of motor. I want to ask about what size propeller is suitable for this type of motor to my hexacopter 750mm frame size. i apreciate your answer, Thank you.

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Building vs Purschasing drone?

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and would like to get a general sense of what direction I should take on building a drone vs out of the box ones?

I am interested in launching a company that would consist of :
Photography/Video (real estate)
Inspecti

Using Arduino as an autopilot

Hi every one,

I’m working on an octocopter that I would like to be auto-piloted. To do that, I’m considering to use my Arduino Mega 2560 to generate PWM signals to « mimic » a receiver.
I’m using a SP Racing F3 and cleanflight.

So more precisely, instea

Not able to fly

I have done all those settings completely but when i am trying to fly my quad it is turning itself towards to the ground and not going properly

Telemetry tane increasing

I am using 200 mW version 2telemetry. It gives the range around 100 to 150m only.How to increase the range upto 1km or more.Thanks..

WP radius and Loiter radius

That means in the mission planner WP radius and Loiter radius.

Getting Pixhawk Data through Mission Planner Over TCP

Hi

I am trying to access pixhawk data through mission planner over TCP.  I am using RPI 3 for doing this.

I have downloaded the Rasbian Jessie OS and installed all the necessary software packages as mentioned in the  website(link:http://ardupilot.org/d

Help with a Hexacopter

Hello, I have recently moved from a quad to hexacopter. However since moving I am having issues with two of the motors where either they both don't start up or just one of them does. When I pick it up and rotate the hexacopter these motors start up d

Pixhawk 2.1 cube failure

Hi!

One of our Pixhawk 2.1 suddenly died, leds light up but it does not boot and the cube gets really hot. Anyone know if this is a common problem?

Last thing the unit was doing was communication over uart with a alexmos sGBC 32 bit on the table. None

Pixhawk mini with px4 flight stack.

I have done all the calibrations with Q7 transmitter. After arming, not even increasing the throttle 20% my quad gaining very fast while decreasing the throttle descending also very fast.What is the problem and how to solve it?Please help me friends.

Drone gimbal for SONY DSLR A6000,with zoom,record and trigger

Sky Eye-Z6K is a 3-axis drone gimbal specially designed for SONY A6000 DSLR.With this gimbal,you can not only realize some basic operations like gimbal Yaw and Pitch axis control,but also other much more important camera controls:zoom,record,trigger,