Hi all,
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
Read more…Hey guys hope everybody is doing well in their Hobby life I'm in the middle of a project and I'm kind of giving up in have installed a pixhawk on a Hirobo shuttle plus helicopter, it's a 30 class nitro heli with a flybar system (it's a mechanical pit
Read more…please can you help me .
i have a quad copter . i want to connect this drone with external power supply by using a wire .
the power supply provide 12V , 5 amps .
this drone has 4 motor 700KV , maximum current for each motor 23 amps
i wanna know if i
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Read more…Hey Guys, This is my first time on this forum.
I have spent the last week or two reading up on drones and how to build them. I have purchased a few cheaper drones and can confidently fly without crashing. I now want to get into DIY drone building. I h
Read more…Hi I have the CX-20 Opensource quad, updated to the latest available firmware version for this hardware. I keep trying to do the Accelerometer calibration but it is always off center after completing, attached is an image, no matter how many times I
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From 2011 I have an old Arducopter based in the old Ardupilot 1.0 or 1.x... At that time, there were a nice wiki at google code:
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/ArduCopter?tm=6
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/ArduCopter2
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
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