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Can someone help me identify this gimbal controller

Hi, I bought a quanum 2axis gimbal for a Samsung nx1100 but I can't identify the board. The one they show on the website shows a simplebgc but that's definitely not what this is. I tried flashing new firmware and seemed to brick it. I suspect it is a

Problem with Survey Grid

Hello, guys

I'm having some kind of bug while trying to create a Survey Grid mission.

I'll add a sequence off photos showing the procedure:

Flight Plan, Draw Polygon and AutoWP Survey Grid

And then the window that pops-up has no information at all.

Need help with PixHawk using Futaba R7008SB receiver with 14SG radio

Guys,

I read and read and tried everything I can think of but I can't get this setup to work in mission planner when it comes to the part of Tx radio calibration step inside mission planner.

1. latest version of mission planner installed and working.
2.

TGM100 RTK GPS

Hello, I have designed a new RTK GPS unit I call TGM100 (100 x 100 mm ground plane), based on a uBlox NEO-M8P receiver.  As the image shows, the ground plane is equipped with 24 LEDs, which will show the relative position of received satellites.  I'm

Severe yaw problems with multiple Pixhawks

Hello everyone!  I have a real tricky problem I desperately need help on.  I've spent almost 40 hours trying to diagnose the issue myself with no luck and am hoping someone on here can point out a stupid mistake I've made (if I could be so lucky).

The

3DR Solo w/ Sony UMC-R10C for sale

Problems flashing hobbypower esc with tgy.hex

Hello All

When I try to flash tgy.hex on esc using KK flashing tool I get this message:

Device signature= 0x1e950F

Expected signature= 1E 93 07 use -F to override this check

How do I actually do that ? I have no programming or coding experience.

Thanks.

New Drone design/Invention

Reaching out for help with the utility aspects of a new drone design. This is not the usual drone we're all use to. It's in the "selfie" drone realm but far beyond what's already out there. Struggling with the engineering of this project. The design

MAVLink Basic Implimentation via serial port

I am trying to create a ground station for my self made drone, i want to send some waypoint parameters to it, how can i send it via mavlink?

i need to understand basic mavlink message packing and receiving. i generated the header files, but dont know

Newbie Drone Pilot

Hi all,

I am a new drone pilot.  After purchasing my first drone (x13 Storm), I have become hooked on drones.  So far, I have advanced my manual piloting skills using a controller where the left stick controls altitude and turning and the right stick

Professional UAV for sale

Not sure if anyone is interested but there is a senseFly eBee drone listed on Craigslist that is a good deal. 

https://desmoines.craigslist.org/ele/6072957389.html

Connecting two things to a BEC

I need to connect my fpv camera and transmitter to 5v, can I just connect a BEC to my power supply and connect both the camera and transmitter to the BEC?

DJI After Sales Service and Tech Support Issues

Hi Everyone:

I am glad to be a part of this group and look forward to connecting. However, at the moment I want to get any feedback on your personal experience with DJI and  based on my open letter I sent to the owner Frank Wang.

Thanks.

April 22, 2017

Microquadcopters with LEDs (drawing messages in the sky)

My goal is to take microquadcopters with LEDs, and assign each a specific pre-set flying pattern so they each spell out a letter of a word in the night sky on continuous loop.

How would you go about this?

(It seems like this could be possible based on

breaking into copter autopilot programming

Dear All,

I am new to UAV design and autopilot programming, but with some experience in quadcopter piloting. I am interested in breaking-into some autopilot programming. I am looking for suggestions for a quadcopter platform with multi-modality sensor

ZMR 250- CC3D EVO HELP

Hello everyone. This is not my first quadcopter build, but it is my first experience with the cc3d evo board. I have a couple friends using Cleanflight so figured I would give it a shot. My other build was as an APM mini 3.1 using mission planner so

Waterproof Zoom Camera

Hi

May I ask the highly experienced people here if they are perhaps aware of a waterproof camera with a zoom greater than x5 that can be fitted to a waterproof drone to take pics both under water and in the air?

I can’t seem to find any and the worse s

Pixhawk Plane during a mission

I am in the process of build an X8 plane using Pixhawk and am wondering what happens if flying a pre planned mission and the model transitions out of RC range on the extreme boundary of the mission space. 

Will the model continue to fly the mission or

Is APM 2.0 still usable?

Hi all,

I was one of the early users of jDrones and APM, but I had some personal problems and didn't do anything for years.

Now I'm back but I've seen that everything changed.

ArduCopter doesn't run anymore on APM, the only thing I've seen still running

Help - Diagnose a strange crash

Hi,

In the last 3 weeks my Skywalker flew about 600km's splitted in 40 different missions.  In the last mission when the plane finished the last waypoint and entered in RTL, the plane did a very tight turn with nose down until crash on ground.

Initiall