Hey there everyone. I'm quite new to all this and have built a gimbal controller with a gopro hero3. Ideally the project will eventually be used in a drone.
I have written some code which takes the angles outputted from the IMU's in the simplebgc and
Read more…I was flying my drone as usual, but at one point in RTL mode it just came down (no motors spinning, no noise just falling). I dont know what the cause of the crash is but as it was about 270m high it just got smashed completely....
I have seen on the
A Canadian UAV developer is currently searching for an expert to help us with the development of multirotor AND fixed wing commercial UAV platforms.
What is needed
Hi i have built a drone it has a x666 frame with zippy 5000 3s batterie and a 860kv motor total drone weight is around 1400 i even tried to run my frame on ecalc and results where mostly in the green it did not tell me that the drone would not take o
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Unfortunately I am having trouble linking Pixhawk with my Spektrum radio and can not find any solutions on the net?
First attempt I used the satellite connection via the SPKT/DSM port and all w
Read more…Hi everyone, my name is Andrea, passionate about quadcopters and electronics.
I am about to start my first project with Pixhawk px4, however I was reading on different forums of some compatibility issues of px4 with many esc.
I did not found yet a fina
Hello all, I am interested to know if anyone has experience with this radio? I have one but have not flowen
it yet. I am concerned about the range and its ability to stay connected to its receiver. Any one know anything about it??? Any help will b
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I currently have a client who hired me to do an aerial survey/ Aerial Mapping of a portion of land where they plan to build homes. They asked me about the accuracy of my outputs and if I use a land points on the ground to get accurate
Read more…Dear Everybody.. I am Dom. New to forums & drones. I am, sadly, not a micro electronics person. Recently I got a Parrot Mambo. I hugely want to make a tiny wifi fpv camera setup for it. I think from your sites pictures that I am in the right place. S
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I'm part of a small environmental consultancy looking to expand our current ground survey (RTK GPS) capability with drone based topographic/environmental mapping.
The main application is for accurate (better than +/- 50mm) t
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I am currently using the APM v2.8 as a flight controller for my quadcopter. I am trying to get it to perform autonomously (in auto mode with a set flight plan from mission planner) as soon as the battery is connected, or to get it to
Read more…It seems that Master Airscrew have too much props :)
I'm very satisfied with the MR series and surprised now that they have a FREE giveaway on10x4.5" Multi Rotor props.
The free props you can find here: https://www.masterairscrew.com/collections/mr-ser
Read more…We are the group of enthusiasts who find technology as the ladder to future– for this reason we have created an application with which the world can become a better place.
Our project called Dron-x stipulates 7 stages of the drones’ application than
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I’m currently working on a project trying to create an autonomous flying wing (https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbykingtm-skyray-flying-wing-fpv-model-1213mm-epo-pnp.html).
I currently have an Erle-Brain 3 flashed with the APM autopilot. I h
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I am trying to arm my pixhawk and I keep failing the check for the 3D fix. However, I do not have a GPS module plugged into the pixhawk and I am just trying to use RC control. My question is, how do I edit Prearm checklist to remove the GPS f
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I'm currently sampling data from a Hobbyking digital pitot tube. The sensor on this device is a MS4525 differential pressure sensor.
I've noticed that in a static environment the minimum change between the readings seems to be 5 counts. For
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I'm new in this world so i have a lot of questions, today i hope you guys can answer me just one. The components of my drone (FC, reciever, A/V trans, gps,etc) can generate interference between them? I was wondering how to place all of them on my
Read more…I think I'm almost done with my drone, but I have run into a problem.
So the Pixhawk doesn't supply power to the servo rail, but that is the only thing my receiver is connected to... I'm trying to research how to power the receiver without a separate
Read more…I had an old APM flight controller (3.2.1 fw) that I thought I would put to work on a HEX. When I tried to calibrate the compass using MP 1.3.44, I got a "Compass Calibration FAILED" message. No matter how I tried, I couldn't get the compass to cal
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