Hi i am building a dorne for the first time, my drone is a x666 frame with
4 860 Kv engines from turnigy
4x 40c ESC
ardupilot 2.6
zippy 5000 3s 30c batterie
Distribution board
and 11x4.7 blades
total weight around 1400g
my problem is that it wont take off
Read more…Im looking for some motors to buy for my new hexacopter which will weigh about 3-4 kg.
I just recently bought the S550 frame which seems to have an awesome quality and durability.
The only problem is that this frame only allows props till 10" (or with
i need a little help/ i have in my supply of gear a arducopter 2.5 flight controller. along with other hardware / i have on the building board a 6 foot long tandem rotor heli basically a 1/4 scale big bird/ well i can go with the sk720
Read more…Hi! I'm new to DIYDRONES, sorry if this is not the right place to ask this.
I have quadcopter with a pixhawk and PX4. I use it with QGroundControl. Sometimes the message "Vehicle did not respond to command: calibration" appears. Does anybody know why?
Read more…Dear all,
I am using MPU6050 Accelerometer-Gyroscope module to fetch the motion along the axis of the direction. When i am moving the accelerometer in X direction, i am getting the values like 5K along the X axis but simultaneously, around 1.5K along
Hi everyone,
I'm new here and I'm planning to start a new project with Ardupilot (Copter). For this project I'm planning to use an APM 2.6 (the Arduino mega based in). I would need to plan a mission (waypoints) through Mavlink protocol (I've read a lo
Read more…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
Read more…Hi and thank you for accepting me to join your community.
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
Read more…Hello Everyone,
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
Read more…Hi, this is my first post.
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
Read more…Hello everybody.
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
Read more…Hi DIY Drones
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
Read more…