Hello all,
I am new in this area. I am looking to make a motion capture system for a bike computer.
I am a bit confused with all the different IMU systems out there.
Can the ArduIMU+ or ArduPilot Mega IMU Shield/Oilpan be used on their own. ie Stand al
Well I just picked up my Arducopter from Jani. He is slaving away getting them boxed up and is really doing some amazing work getting them ready. He was kind enough to give me a tour of his offices and personally boxed up my order! Thanks Jani. N
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I'm a pretty decent programmer and good with electronics, but I don't know much about R/C airplanes or aviation. I want to work on a VTOL similar to The SCORPID-500 UAV. Does anyone know of some good reads on choosing motors and props? I downloaded t
Read more…Hi,Ive been tuning my ardupilot 2.7.1 and imuv2 in for a few weeks now and the following work great:Manual mode,Stabilise,Fly by wire ARTLHavent tried auto yet.PID tuning has been good and fly by wire A flies like it on rails.Today ive tried FLY BY W
Read more…hey guys just got the ardupilot and hooked it up to my brushless motors. i have it in a quadcopter frame but when i throttle up only one motor turns on and the rest just beep. so i guess my question is how do i config the ardupilot mega code to run l
Read more…Ok so my lil Easystar is getting a little bigger.
I ordered an APM on SparkFun a few weeks back... and was wondering if anyone would be interested in selling & overnighting a unit for a project. I've tried the standard ArduPilot and have had a number of problems, so I'm hoping the APM will be an imp
Read more…I am not quite shure if this topic was already discussed.
I had problems reading inputs with APM, see here. I reloaded the PPM multiplexer firmware as indicated here but after that I got same problems.
I remembered then that some time ago I had to send a PowerBox back to factory due problems reading Futaba
Read more…What voltage can the ArduIMU take in? I would like to use this battery http://hobbyking.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=7303&Product_Name=Rhino_460mAh_2S_7.4v_20C_Lipoly_Pack. The battery is actually outputting more like ~8.5 V. Would t
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Im lil sick in these days, bored to lying down to the bed. So i want to test my new stuff but i had a problem with XBees.
Here is the part list;
When i try to connect XBee with digi's X
Read more…Feasibility of such an airframe design?
I know the next generation of fighters are called for to be quicker and more maneuverable than anything we have ever seen but how long until the hobby world can keep up? I honestly know that we are years from su
I am just testing a DIYDrones MT3329 GPS module
for static performance and found some interesting things:
Hey everyone,
Great stuff that you guys are doing at DIY!!!
I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a localization problem. I'm building an indoor UAV and am exploring options for localization, one option is of course SLAM but that demands a s
In the configurator do you have to have the magno in order for the artificial horizon to work? The reason that I ask is that it seems to go off to one side or the other depending on which computer I plug it into, but the accelerometers seem to work.
Hi
I need to convert my plane to a UAV for a competition.
I need to take off manually, switch to UAV mode so the plane can fly a programmed route, then have it come back so I can take control and land it.
My plane is a nitro trainer with a 40 engine
I have a MT3329 GPS with the DIY Drones new firmware....( AXN1.30_2243_3329_384.1151100.1 )
I was to flash it with the old default NMEA firmware....
Where can I download the default firmware from....??
The main reason why I want to load the default firm
