Can anyone tell me acceptable values for Gyro Roll when my craft is sitting on the table?
Can you explain the following Artificial Horizon?
http://tinypic.com/r/2edr3pt/7
I assume between this and my Turnigy motors that go "clunk clunk clunk" every o
Read more…I have finished building my pre-soldered ArduCopter. I loaded RC2 as 1.4 (which was pre-installed) seems to be out of date now.
Could someone please help me with the following issues?
1. I set everything up before plugging in my Mtek GPS 3329. Once I
Read more…Anyone know why my magnetometer headings are negative? I made sure my MAGORIENTATION is set.
Read more…I see that Sparkfun and Robotshop are both backordered for Ardupilot Mega boards.
Couple of dumb questions about that:
a) is there another supplier anyone is aware of that has them in stock?
b) what is the hardware roadmap for ardupilot? Will there be s
Read more…Hi there everyone. It's my first post in the Ardupilot Mega part of this forum so please... be gentle.I am currently building a massive (by my standards) UAV. It is based around the "Payload Master 100" by AMR research. I hadn't decided on an autopil
Read more…Hi everybody,
In the first weeks of January I plan to submit an order to invensense.com. They sells great chips like the ITG-3200 (3 axis gyro) and IMU-3000 (3 axis gyro + 3 axis accelerometer interface).
For a full list and details see: http://inven
Read more…I was having problem on my quadrotor project.
Before I had connected the receiver, when I connected the battery with my 4 esc, i can observe that the motor was moving little bit...
After I have connect my receiver, when I use the configurator for calib
Read more…I am using a 10A 5V BEC to run my receiver and APM. It connects to the 11v line on the PDB and the 5V connects to the battery port on the JR921 receiver. I power the APM via one of the receiver channels.What I want to add is a laser I know operates o
Read more…My arducopter has fallen out of the sky a couple of times today. I tought it was bad connections, so i replaced them.
But when i started testing again i found that if i move the trottle stick fast it disarms. The arm-led stops blinking and the engine
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I try to set everything up before the first flight but I have problems with the GPS location.
I get a GPS lock (solid blue LED on the GPS module and solid red LED on the IMU shield), but the position I get on the GCS is wrong, I get one position w
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Until recently, when I used the Configurator to calibrate the transmitter, everything seemed to be ok, but when I tried to save the values to the EEPROM, I had an error like: "Could not save values ... Try again / Abort ? " I didn't mind because t
Hi! Tried looking for information on the artificial horizon (AH) feature of the configurator 1.22 but can't seem to find one. If you happen to come across one, providing a link would be much appreciated.
My arducopter when laid on a flat surface have
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Important safety issue with Aurdupilot 2.7. I speak from experience. No damage done,
but it was a completely unexpected jump to full throttle while I was attempting to program my
Castle Phoenix 25 in a skyfun sitting on my workbench. To enter
Hey how do i progam APM to control a heli?
quad copters are all nice, but helis are cheaper.. and I already have a few lol
Read more…After I do all the calibrations and make sure my apm and shield are level and I start hovering, my arducopter always seems to want to drift backwards. If I move the battery forward some I can counter act the drift, but is anyone else having this prob
Read more…I purchased a new MediaTek GPS from the store and am curious about the specifications on it. The GPS unit itself can run at up to 5.0V but there is no documentation showing that the adapter board can run at 5.0V. Looking around on other threads, I'm
Read more…I saw Gumstix has a Robostix extension board based on Atmel processor which is similar to ArduPilot.
http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Robostix
Did anybody tried to connect a ArduPilot with a Gumstix Overo for example?
Read more…I can use the X-CTU app to read the modem's parameters but when I open the configurator it just keeps trying to connect but never does. As long as it's trying to connect, the red light comes on the xbee plane side. What is the red light indicating? A
Read more…Sorry if this is the wrong category.
Is it reasonably possible for a drone to go back to a specified point and recharge itself? If so, any threads or information on the topic would be much appreciated.
GT
Read more…Hi, i'm not very good in compiling and programming and all that, could someone compile the last version for me? Would be soooooo appreciated :)Thanks!-Francis
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