Just upgraded my F450 from APM 2.6 to Pixhawk (lite). Installed 3.4.4.
Amazing software except one thing:
The yaw rate now is very slow: It needs almost 3-4 seconds to turn 360° with full rudder ! (1900 or 1100 pwm) (tested in Stabilize and AltHold). P
Read more…Trying to get some opinions on the best way to test performance of my Multistar 14.8v 10c 16,000 mAp battery.When I fly my drone (designed for a 24 pound max lift) with 10 pounds, the red-blinking warning light on the drone's DJI controller starts af
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Read more…I am looking to have 3+ (ideally quite a few more) pixhawks send their live telemetry data to ideally one laptop that records this data as it comes in. Is this possible?
At the moment I am thinking either mission planner or Qgroundcontrol and using on
Flying well in manual mode
Flying strange in stabilized mode
Recently I tried to use HIL(Hardware In Loop) simulation function in the QGroundControl and I use PX4.
At first, I use QGroundControl 1.3.0v and tries to have connection with Xplane9 it seems
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I'm currently setting up my first scratch built quad with a Pixhawk mini and a Spektrum DSMX 6 channel receiver/transmitter. I have five of those channels in use - four for flight control and one flight mode switch. When I calibrate the radi
Everyone, and I do mean everyone told me about Lady Gaga's performance of the Superbowl and how it was unusual due to the incorporation of drones. It was boasted at that time that 500 drones were incorporated in that performance. Of course, what was
Read more…Has anyone attempted to build a copter with a quadracopter like setup but a center blade too and pivoting blades everywhere else. I believe this would allow for greater control and possibly even better speed if you could angle them to push backwards
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I have a DJI F450 with Naza-m and it work well, but at a time it flash quickly 4 time in red and I cannot turn on motors.
I fixed it (as following) and I can fly, but some hours later after power off, the bug coma back.
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Hi, I am mounting my Copter with an APM 2.8, Turnigy 9x and a GPS NEO 6M. I'm trying to set it up but I get 2 errors when I try to calibrate it.
--> The first one is when I try to calibrate my GPS. Last month it worked but I had to reinstall MP on my
Read more…I am currently looking into upgrading to the use of UAV's in my profession. As I am new to UAV's I'm looking for pointers and suggestions as to which types, models and manufactures to go with.
The purpose of the UAV's is to upgrade my ability to prote
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I'm new to the forum and new to building my own drone. I have an Autel X-STAR and a couple of small quads that I absolutely love and had the urge to build my own fixed wing when I started reading about Ardupilot.
I purchased 2 mini APM 3.1 boards a
Read more…Hi all need help i try to fly my cx20 drone whils hovering seems to skake so therefor very difficult to operate i have yried recalibration is there anything that i can do to sort problem thanks ben
Read more…Hello all, im a newbie looking to get into the drone business of mapping and surveying. I have a few quad copters that can take care of small jobs and stills but Im now looking to increase my reach by having a fix wing drone in my arsenal. The cost o
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I am having a lot of trouble with these ESC's. For some reason I cannot get them to react to a signal from Pixhawk. I tested them using a servo tester and they work fine but not when hooked up to Pixhawk. I also removed one ESC and repl
I am new at this and i got a eachine wizard and i bent a motor bell so i got new motors but other than that the rest is i guess what you would call stock but i messed with the siwches in clean fight and i could find out how to arm it and i didnt mean
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I'm a student at UCLA and we are working on outfitting a DJI S1000+ with a research grade fluxgate magnetometer, and need to get GPS/tilt/altitude to calibrate and correlate the mag measurements of earthquake faults and other subterranean featu
Read more…Buenas estimados.
Soy de Paraguay, me dedico a la topografía.
Aeromodelista de hace años y hace poco piloto de drones.
Intento construir un UAV para fotogrametría, ya me dedico a este rubro pero es la primera vez que quiero fusionar trabajo y hobby.
Al
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Over the last several months I've been writing a Windows application I call the Waypoint Path Generator to be able to programmatically generate paths for a uav to fly. Currently the program can generate paths for importing into the Mission Hub app
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This is my first time on this forum and building a quadcopter. I've spent a lot of time researching the science behind flying and building one. I believe I got most of the concepts down and I'm ready to begin work on co
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