Everything works fine until I get to the compass offsets. It displays scrolling data but everything is zero and never changes as I move the quad. I did run the CLI "a" command and made sure that the mag was activated.
Any Ideas what to check?
This Qu
Read more…So thi may sound like a silly question... but i ordered an adru board + sheild kit+ IMU and I got it all soldered up! but im noticing in the manual there are some cables running from the IMU to the sheild.
My question is where did those conectors come
Read more…DIY Drones Team:
I just wanted to let you know that I love the new CLI! First, I use a Mac, so it's very nice to be able to do what is required from a Mac without having to go into a Windows emulator, etc. Second, I love the simplicity and definitiven
On my quad, I'm replacing my old motors and ESC with the "official" motors and ESCs. On my old ESCs, I cut the red voltage wire on three of the four ESCs so that only one was supplying power to the APM. On those three, I'm wondering if I can cut the
Read more…I have a Futaba T7CAP transmitter w/ a 72Mhz PPM receiver. Calibrating the transmitter via the configurator never succeeds. Here is what I have tried:
1) Verified the receiver works by directly plugging in an esc to the receiver.
2) Verified the receiv
Read more…I am new to Uav and I am interested In knowing how to get started. I have a good flying platform, any help please
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during my first full test flight today i'd noticed a couple of glitches, on arming the motors sometimes the rear or right wasn't spinning up. disarming and re-arming seemed to fix it. So carried on and got the quad up in the air and had a f
Hi guys...
This was not working, was working and now isn't working
I'm using APM v1.0 beta
When I connect the board up I get the usual
Init ArduPilotMega 1.0-BETA
freeRAM: 4051
MSG: <startup_ground> GROUND START
MSG: Demo Servos!
<startup_IMU_ground> Warm
Hello, I'm looking for a little help / guidance with wireless telemetry.
I would like to add the wireless telemetry to my APM to use with the GCS, as I live in the UK I can't use the Xbee 900's as this is the band used by the mobile telephones here.
Read more…I'm finishing up putting together my arducopter. Everything is connected and escs are calibrated. I uploaded the alpha code to the APM and the uploaded went well. I have a steady led green light. The problem is that when I connect the battery and plu
Read more…I'm confuse about Arducopter units USB connection ?
When calibrating ? or setting up could we connect unit to USB ? [ ofcourse yes but after removing lipo connection right ? ]
Could i use Xbee for connecting ? is it work for configuration utility or
Read more…Not sure if this is the proper venue for posing this question but I notice theres more people on here helping out than other forums.
My Project is quite a simple one. I have a Logomatic V2 SD Datalogger, a 5 DOF board, HMC6352 board and Locosys 20031
Read more…when i try to load the ardu_2_7 to me Ardu+ sheild i get this error!
avrdude: stk500_getsync() : not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_disable() : protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51
Dose anyone know what to do, or what this means?
Read more…Hi Folks,
I am working in a university lab, for a PhD student, and we are currently using APM for charactering an non-standard airframe. The airframe we are working on experiences quite a considerable amount of Dutch Roll when exiting a bank.
Here ar
Read more…Apologies if this is a repost...
I'm working with APM v1.0 public beta
I've got the exact setup defined in the ardupilot mega recommendations
even the skyfun
I was missing one of the 8x3 right angled headers so never had it conencted to any outputs...B
Read more…I couldn't find the frame octo which i already seen in fahpah ?
Is arducopter software compatliple with octo without any modification ?
Read more…Yello People!
What you suggest is it possible to make a weight reduce for stroke engine by change engine parts?
I mean parts from another more light material.
What do you think? Any experiences?
For exaple for those engines:
Read more…I have an off the shelf Easy star which comes with a Hi-tech Neon-ss FM 72mhz radio, a three plus possible mode switch ch4. May I use this for my control switch on Ardupilot V2?
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