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ARDUINO + 2.4GHZ RECEIVER

hi folks, i have a problem..
i have a common 2.4ghz RC kit (transmitter and receiver) i wanna manage brushless dc and servos from arduino, getting signals from the receiver connected to arduino.

about the hardware everything is ready, but i have proble

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Ardupilot Mega IMU Shield problems

Hi all,


Today I was testing out my new Ardupilot Mega + IMU Shield.. when I was testing the IMU sensors with the software, using DEBUG SUBSYSTEM = 6, I saw that my Yaw values are very strange. Example data while moving the board:

 roll:0  pitch:-11  ya

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Help on 2_7 program!

Hi all.. I have been trying out the new program and i found a few questions to ask.

  • First, for the debug of sensors input, what does it mean by airpressure_raw? does it mean by pitot pressure? I always receive a value of 400+, never exceed 500.
  • For th

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testing an ardupilot shield

Is there any way to check the functionality of a shield board without having it connected to a pilot board?

I manged to short something on one of these two tonight and I now can't get any lights on either board unless there is a FTDI cable connected.

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servo jitter

hi all again :)

i am getting a lot of servo jitter on my middle switch. i have them setup as

#define POSITION_1 MANUAL
#define POSITION_2 STABILIZE
#define POSITION_3 FLY_BY_WIRE_A

manual is fine, rock solid
i get a lot of constant jitter and twitch on s

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Building an quadcopter

Hi all,
this is my first post on this forum: I just registered after having seen some cool videos around.
I'm a web developer by day, the maintainer of a pretty popular (at least in the .NET world) opensource project. But lately I'm starting to play ar

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EM406 serial speed question

I am trying to connect my EM406 to the Ardupilot and am having some trouble understanding the proper speed.

I read in the Ardupilot setup manual that the EM406 has a serial speed of 57600 and that the Xbee modules must be programmed to the same speed

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EasyStar Hardware Setup Location

I have an EasyStar with ArduPilot and ArduIMU.  I've tried multiple configurations of the hardware in the EasyStar and cannot find a suitable location for everything.  How does everybody have their equipment setup in the EasyStar including the batter

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Platform Selection etc.

Hello All,

     Ok so I’m new here and I have been researching through the forums and other sources the past few days for a project I am involved in.  I have already learned quite a bit. I still have some questions and I will do my best to phrase them

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Experimental Aircraft

I have an experimental aircraft that I have flown for many years. I know that the autopilots discussed here are for model aircraft but.... The idea is to have the auto pilot drive small trim tabs on alerons to gently level the wings in flight. It wou

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Entrence into ardupilot

Lately I got into talk with several people at the airfield, both glider pilots, fullsize glider pilots, beginners and advanced pilots.It was just one off all these people that had taken the step to buy an autopilot set(Papparazzi), the other ones wer

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Informative Flight Today

Hello All,


I was actually able to capture a good amount of data on my flight today.

Also a miraculous landing on video!

I had 4 waypoints set to repeat twice, with an AUTO takeoff.  Here is my WP file.

#define WP_RADIUS 30 // What is the minimum distance

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