I have been working on a quadplane project for the past few months with mixed results. This airframe is a 3 meter wing span custom design flying wing weighing between 12-15kg. I started off with a quad setup for the VTOL capabilities. I had some v
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I'm doing a research about some of the most important inspection drones.
I can't find detailed informations about the Falcon 8/Falcon 8+. I'm looking for details like which motors it uses, kind of props and ESCs.
Is there anyone who knows more?
Th
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I'm having trouble getting a lidar device to connect to the PH2.1 via the "I2C 2" bus. I have read another post suggesting that arducopter is looking at the "GPS1" bus rather than the I2C 2 bus, and that in order to utilize I2C for sensory input y
Read more…Where does one buy these transmitters/receivers? Would like to experiment with them
Read more…People often ask me now does the GDU Byrd Premium 2.0 compare with the DJI Mavic Pro? Both are foldable portable drones and that
is really where the similarity ends. Whilst the Mavic Pro has a fixed gimbal and camera the GDU Byrd Premium 2.0 has been
Read more…I am looking at buying a zenmuse Z-15 to mount my Sony NEX 5N to my Tarot 680Pro frame only problem I'm seeing is that the Z-15 mounts to 155mm spaced rails. Is there some sort of adapter I can purchase? Or is this just not compatible?
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RC Airship way point flight with pixhawk fc and Mission planner auto mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTINlbU6jT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gnus4Pbjl4
Read more…We VTOLized the Raptor E1, at the same time we further optimized the power plant to achieve 50-80 Watt power consumption at cruise speed at 16.5 m/s with 3.5 Kg payload.
All in all very happy with the conversion. If anyone interested we are taking pr
Read more…So I am working on developing a companion computer platform (used for vision based navigation and obstacle avoidance in indoor/outdoor environments) based on the Intel Joule,it's expansion board, R200 camera, and 2 MIPI cameras) for my new drone (aut
Read more…Are there anyone still interested in printed logbooks or is all now electronic?
We have built uavthunder.com and are testing few of those with Estonian Defence League as a practise UAV. We are also using logbooks (in Estonian) with these notebook cove
I started flying my quad copter with a pix falcon.
When i tried to takeoff, it suddenly started gaining height and went up 1 km and then fell down.
Can anyone help me in identifying the cause for the crash ?
I have attached the data flash log from the p
Read more…Hi Gurus, I'm trying to hook up a ds18b20 temperature sensor (in fact a breakout board like this) to a old RPi (ver 1) model B, running DietPi. I am following this guide from Adafruit. The '/sys/bus/w1/devices' directory always seems to be empty.
Here
Read more…Title. The radios I am currently using are not 3DR, although that seems to be the overwhelming preference of this community. The radios themselves are able to connect to one another without issue, as indicated by a solid green light (no red light wha
Read more…I forwarded this part here. Its a very cool LiDAR drone height fixing and terrain following
TF02 is a single-point ranging LiDAR, used by drone for measuring the relative altitude from the ground, ensuring the stable altitude. It is available for the
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I have a quadcopter with APM.
System works without problem, arm and disarm perfectly.
Calibration OK, ENGINES TURN.
Connect and disconnect battery and ESC sounds uncalibrated, not save settings.
What's problem with that?
Can not save the ESC
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I am trying to develop a custom control board together with its software. The project is still in a very early phase of development but I hope to make it fully functional. Source code is hosted on https://github.com/michprev/flyhero.
Hello guys!
I need an advise from the drone fans and experts 
. My boyfriend is fond of drones, he's got a drone and I plan to present him some nice accessory .
Heard about landing pads, there are many on Amazon. Is that a really useful thing or a kind
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