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Building a vehicle from scratch. It is a boat. Have it working as an FPV fairly well using a three year old Pi and PCA9685 servo controller and GStreamer for video.
Would like to add a GPS function. Can write my own using C, but people have told
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I have a flash log from Iris+ and it appears that a brownout occurred. Maybe after crash, I'm not sure. I don'y know why it would have crashed. Can someone have a look?
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I use rfd900 modems with good results.
Sometimes need to fly in mountains and hill zones, and frequently loss link due LOS issues.
Is there a relative low cost solution for a Satellite link? i mean for low bandwidth telemetry, no video
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I want to build a THERMIK XXXL with an stretched fuselage for long range surveileance.
Im looking for some experience about power setup (electric) max weight tested and expected endurance
I already done this before but with a Arthobby 3Mete
Read more…A great way to get into aerial surveying and mapping. I bought this brand new and used it to map out a lot of agriculture tiling and golf courses. It is a great drone and remote control airplane. It can be flown by hand, with assistance or completely
Read more…I have a question,how to read the chip MAX7456 character set.I need to do a home works from my school,But I didn't any idea about read character set.Who know how to read the character set from MAX7456 ?? Could telling me the methods? Or any software?
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I am working on collision avoidance system for my drone. I am using a 8 channel R2008SB Futaba radio receiver and a Pixhawk as the flight controller. I thought of having an Arduino to perform similar function as a PPM encoder module, that is,
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I am working on collision avoidance system for my drone. I am using a 8 channel R2008SB Futaba radio receiver and a Pixhawk as the flight controller for the drone. I am thinking of implementing an Arduino that modifies some radio receiver chan
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I am attempting to use an arducopter v2.6 with firmware v3.2.1 and APM Mission planner v2.0.23 running in Ubuntu 16.04. When I arm the device through APM mission planner it waits about 10 seconds before disarming. I believe that I have disabled
Read more…We have several DJI S900's using Pixhawks, and in the past couple of months, we've noticed the copter "pausing", or at least wide swings in speed from the planned speed. This seems coupled with the inability to hold the planned altitude very well. A
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I've already attach an image to my drone. I tried to choose the quad and hexacopter as an airfirm but it didn't work with me. I was thinking of controlling the power of each motor but I couldn't find a way to do that. I tried also with the PID
Read more…I've been trying to find a simple roll compensating gimbal (single axis or compact 2 axis) to mount a camera inside a payload bay. It seems if you want to use anything larger than a GoPro the gimbals are huge 2 and 3 axis things.
I'm trying to keep t
Read more…Here is some drone footage I got from the World's Largest Ice Fishing contest on Gull Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota! An estimated 12,000 people were out on that frozen bay!
World's Largest Ice Fishing Contest
Read more…The GoPro Karma is attempting a comeback!
I have my opinions on this, mostly I'm in the wait and see mode, but I would like to hear what your thoughts about GoPro trying to bring back their most famous drone. One that was a somewhat failure the first
Read more…HI @ everyone i invented a small drone with lots of power that can easy be printed and could be used in many way´s.
i now looking for some guys to prove the construction and possible use in all thinkable ways.
Frame size
min. 320mm max 450mm
the setup
6 m
Read more…Hi everyone. I am running MAVProxy between an Intel Edison and a 3DR drone. I can establish communication between them in this way. I need to run a python program from the Edison. I need to connect to the drone in this python program. It seems I shou
Read more…Copter= 550 mm Hex, FC= Arducopter APM 2.8, TX= Turnigy TGY 9X, RX= Turnigy 9X8C V2, Motors= Turnigy Prop-Drive 28-26 1200 KVa, Props= 9" Slo-Fly (nylon), ESC= Turnigy Plush 30A (BEC 2A/5V ver 3.3), GPS= 3DR GPS with external compass, Li-Po= 5400 MaH
Read more…We recently received our new Pixhawk 2.1, and boy what a bunch of changes they have done to it mainly connectors are different and they click in which is nice. I am trying to get the most current version of PX4 flight stack on it using QGC v3.0.2. I
Read more…Hi. I'm a bit lost here. I'm an absolute beginner, I don't know anything on drones. My objective isn't to create a complex weird drone, I don't even want to create a drone with a remote control! The simpler, the better. I just want to make an X-shape
Read more…I have recently built a quad and having trouble with figuring out what C- rating I need I'm running 15 amp esc's with a25 amp burst my motors are 2204 2300kv any help would be great
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