First of let me say I know not to power up the system with the Tx to the Xbee connected. I have bricked mine several times during testing. I installed a dip switch just for this. I am putting my Ardustation in a nice DIY box and was going to instal a
Read more…I have loaded the latest code 2.5.03 (I did not try the previous 2.5 versions) and made the amendment to get the GPS lock in Manual however I am having trouble getting Arupilot to read the throttle channel correctly. I have soldered the link on the b
Read more…I'm thinking about building a quad or trirotor platform. Therefore I'm interested to see a list of people's configurations regarding airframe weight, motor thrust, propeller sizes, battery type etc...
Still searching for that perfect base platform that is kind of a rare treat...
Stearing away from the over popular easystar
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=555476
Twin boom, pusher prop, all foam, and a carbonfiber wing spar seems to be
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While waiting for my EM-406A to drain it's batteries. (Seems that it's on binary mode...)
Already done with the Xbee connections. I managed to get a remote serial connection via the wireless link so... that's okay...
I was playing around with th
Has anyone done anything with the Ardupilot or simular for autonomous guidance and control of gliders?. To be able to find and use thermal to your advantage and keep the glider aloft as long as possible. Seems like it may be posible but I'll have t
Read more…This is a forum to discuss the creation of a community-designed UAV airframe that can be put into production. Once the basic scope and core participants of the projects have been decided on, we can move the project to a Huddle workspace for the actua
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First of all, I have to say that I'm at the beginner level with these things and thats why I'm asking for some help. I hope you wont criticize me, but I've been always interested in robotics and technology. I have not much experience from flying
Hi all
While doing some reading for my paper on ardupilot for my degree I have noticed something and just want to clear it up.
On the wiki page for the ardupilot it has a link for 'using an IMU instead of thermopiles'. I have read the link and it say
Read more…I am completely new to this whole DIY Drone stuff, never built one, never had an RC plane to be honest. I got to thinking, has anyone ever tried a Cellular Drone (for super long distances)? I've been looking for anyone who has done this, and I
Read more…Hey yall, ive been thinking bout my senior project and i want something unqie, everyone uses the Easy start platform...
I was wondering about Fling wings? are they any harder to program/tune to get flying?
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?
Read more…Greetings!
I am working on a class assignment about community driven innovation and have
chosen the UAV community as my subject. When it comes to UAVs I don't
have any experience, or much knowledge, but would love to learn more. In
the past I have flown
I've been lurking for a while, and I'm getting ready to test fly 2.5.03 next weekend and noticed on my bench that my Easystar with UBLOX and red shield would not achieve GPS lock in manual. If I switched to Auto or Fly By Wire, the GPS would achieve
Read more…AeroSIM RC is a flight simulator with FPV functions (OSD, camera Tilt&Pan, Scenario Generator from satellite image)
And now, it is also a Test Platform for Autopilot / IMU developers
Version 3.3 includes a new feature called "Third Party DLL" that le
Read more…I was asked if that was an option for longe-distance drone controlling...well...is it?If so, how?
Read more…Ardupilot finally seems to be working properly (running 2.5.02), achieved lock, telemetry output looks good. However, the radio (Spektrum DX6i 2.4GHz / AR6200) inputs don't seem to have any effect. I have soldered the leads as specified in the diag
Read more…I wonder if there is already a code for Ardupilot or IMU. Thank you.
Read more…I know this isn't a UAV aircraft or that and other people bar us from the uk probably won't know what it is but today I went to the retirement ceremony for the BAE Nimrod MR2.
This was one of the best ISTAR platforms available and cant be beaten for
Read more…I purchased the recommended xbee pro 900 modules from sparkfun, I am using the sparkfun usb explorer board for the pc side, and then using the adafruit adapter board for the ardupilot side as recommended
Hi All
I have question about the EKF S functions for matlab. There is a call to propogate_covariance in the 25ms routine. This has 4 params but the function only accepts 3, can anyone explain to me
why this is?
Many thanks
Tony
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