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Need help! My first build crashed at test flight.

Hi,

I'm new to the drone world and just finished my first build and sadly enough it crashed at it's maiden voyage. At first everything seemed ok but just before I wanted to land it after the first test flight it suddenly started to pitch backwards a f

Started by Cor Bakker

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Indoor navigation - Magnetometer anomalies

Greetings,

My team and I are working on indoor drone flights. Our build is

Frame: DJI S1000+

Flight Controller: Pixhawk v2.1 (not using an Edison)

Range finder: Lightware LIDAR SF10A

Optical flow sensor: PX4FLOW

Software: Mission Planner (Beta Version) a

Started by Jonathan

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3d printer drone bodies and parts for YUNEEC

Smashed my TYPHOON Q500 into a 150ft Ballpark lite tower last weekend, hairline cracks everywhere, camera wiped out, gimbal in parts, landing gear in parts. I have to change camera to GoPro of some type. Any articles on changing camera over to GoPro

Started by Edwin Gudinas

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need help. looking for the best setup for my needs.

hey guys

I'm in need of a uav that is capable of flying with a 1.5 kg load under it and can fly a preprogramed grid autonomously.

longer the flight time the better! I'm hoping for something that will fly for 30+ minutes.

hoping someone here can help ste

Started by pat fera

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Waypoint following quadcopter using Arduino.

I am interested in making a quadcopter that will follow Lat/Long, hold altitude and follow me.

I am using an Arduino, MPU 6050 for flight controller with multiwii arduino code. I also recently purchased a GPS Neo-M8N. I am at a point where I can succe

Started by marc

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Parrot DISCO with Ardupilot

Hi,

I just started working on Parrot DISCO.

I'm trying to install Ardupilot on Parrot DISCO.(http://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/airframe-disco.html)

However, there is one problem. It's rcS_mode_default file. This file should be put /etc/init.d/rcS_mode_def

Started by koji kno

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Battery monitoring with APM Planner 2

Hi!

I'm setting up an Erle-Copter & running APM Planner 2 on Ubuntu 16.04. I want to monitor my battery voltage with APM Planner 2.

From the flight data screen, I can see the percentage of battery left, but as I don't know after what percentage I risk

Started by Lauren T.

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Stop one motor faster than other motor in quadcopter

dear my friends

I have a quadcopter and when I disarm motors one of them stop faster than others. I think there is a mechanical problem with it. Am I right?

please help me. I truely appreciate it.

thank you so much.

Started by jhon

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TopXGUn launch RTK equipment for industrial drone

Hello, everybody, I am Linda from TopXGun shanghai, recently TopXGun launch RTK equipment for industrial drone, detailed information for your refer.

Mobile Base Station: which is installed on ground
1.Powerful Data Link
The differential system adopts

Started by TopXgun Linda

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Battery failsafe not triggering

Hi,

I am an experienced flyer but this has me stumped, maybe one of you guys can help. The battery failsafe will not trigger even though the aircraft battery voltage drops to 1V less then the failsafe voltage while in flight. FS is enabled and set to

Started by Alex

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Compass heading not turning as much as plane

Hi

I have a problem with the external compass on my APM 2.6, mounted in a plane. I have been flying in Northern Europe without any problems, and have now brought my plane to Greenland. After having changed to the correct magnetic declination and calib

Started by Boas61

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250 Quad with Pixfalcon help

Hi,

I converted my ZMR250 from a Naze 32 to a Pixfalcon. I got everything setup and vibrations looks fine.

I then did a auto-tune on the Roll axis and would like to know if it is normal for a small quad or should I be concerned with the low values.

Stab

Started by Henry Scheun

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LM1117 3.3 outputs 0.65 V

I have a small circuit with an ESP8266, a DS18B20 (here is the ds18b20 datesheet) temperature sensor and a DHT22. I prototyped everything on a breadboard, and it worked fine. I then moved to soldering everything. My input Vcc is 5v, so I am using it

Started by nanawhite107

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HELP! Flip32

Hello everybody! I'm a beginner and need help!!!!For the past couple of months I've been building a quadcopter, I'm trying to configure my flight controller - flip 32 - using both clean flight and beta flight, but I'm having some trouble.I have downl

Started by Zoe Diggs

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Computing the Attitude Percentage Error

Hello guys! I've been working on the accuracy and stability of the Pixhawk... and I've been wondering how it is to properly compute the percentage error of its flight... So I've been using the telemetry logs since I've only got to the SITL part... Ho

Started by Ronello Ninettu

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Bad gps module? bad apm board? GPS led not blinking

After changing the location (country) where I fly my quad copter I'm having trouble with it.

The gps led does not blink and mission planner says that I don't have gps 3d fix (either 2d fix)

I know it takes time to make your GPS work after long travel

Started by Jun kyung Bang

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Quad becomes unstable but only after a land waypoint then takeoff waypoint

I've searched for similar issues but haven't really been able to find anything even though this seems like a firmware bug.

I've created a waypoint mission like this with a land and takeoff sequence in the middle of the mission:

1. Takeoff

2. Waypoint 1

3

Started by Jesper Andersen

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Attitude Unpredictability on Gusty Days

Hi all,

I ran into an issue earlier this year when a gusty day pushed my FX-61 (elevon flying wing) into a nosedive and fatal crash. Happily only the styrofoam was damaged, so I built a new one with the guts from that which crashed. I made a few fli

Started by Christian John

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My Ranger 757-3 build with Navio2

Finally I've got all systems working. The combination of the telemetry modem and GPS module gave me a lot of headaches. The solution proved to be a separate UBEC for the modem and moving that UBEC as far away from the other electronics as possible.

Th

Started by Anton Vanhoucke

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EKF logs

Hello!
I have done several loggings with my rover but none of them contain EKF data when converting to .mat file.
Below is a screenshot where it says that AHRS data logging should be enabled. My question is how to enable logging of AHRS data in order

Started by Marco Suther

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Need help! My first build crashed at test flight.

Indoor navigation - Magnetometer anomalies

3d printer drone bodies and parts for YUNEEC

need help. looking for the best setup for my needs.

Waypoint following quadcopter using Arduino.

Parrot DISCO with Ardupilot

Battery monitoring with APM Planner 2

Stop one motor faster than other motor in quadcopter

TopXGUn launch RTK equipment for industrial drone

Battery failsafe not triggering

Compass heading not turning as much as plane

250 Quad with Pixfalcon help

LM1117 3.3 outputs 0.65 V

HELP! Flip32

Computing the Attitude Percentage Error

Bad gps module? bad apm board? GPS led not blinking

Quad becomes unstable but only after a land waypoint then takeoff waypoint

Attitude Unpredictability on Gusty Days

My Ranger 757-3 build with Navio2

EKF logs

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