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Islander with with autonomous take off and landing.....

Hi all

Just a quick question. I am currently flying my replica of a b2n islander and as wondering if anyone has had any luck with autonomous take off and landings....as my islander is like my test bed I wouldn't mind giving it a try with this airfram

EM-406A output junk

Hey everyone,

GPS library-ish code

They have GPS libraries for Arduino which are fun to play with but not too easy for some one like me to try and make a UGV with. I think it would be a cool idea for diy drones to have code that would just give like distance to your next GPS point and

XYZ Sensors

My high school students are building a drone, but we're waiting for your XYZ sensors to be back in stock.  Any idea when they might be available?  We are scheduled to test fly in April, and our project is due on May 5.  If they aren't coming back, ca

XYZ horizon sensor

Any idea when these sensors will be in stock?  My high school students are building a drone, and they're running out of time.  They need to test fly in April, and the project is due May 5.  Are there alternative sensors we might consider using with o

ardupilot code 2.5 and GPSemulator.exe

hello evrybody, tested GPXemulator.exe and code ardupilot 2.5.I wanted to give the responsability the code ardupilot 2.5 to test a simulation with GPSemulator.exe and in the windows "status" I does not communicate with the program.

when I the version

IMU wing leveler

Currently I am working on my first UAV so I am only a beginner.  I understand the basics of IMUs and some of the challenges but do not yet fully understand the code.  It occurred to me that we all wanted good IMUs in order to get rid of thermopiles a

Quadrocopter and Tricopter Info Mega Link Index!!

I have put togther and am continuously updating an index to help folks get through the mountains of info on Quadrocopters and Tricopters. Quadrocopter and Tricopter Mega Link Index: www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1097355 

Hope that helps!

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Another ArduIMU project (balancing robot)

Hi Guys -

Problem getting and holding GPS lock

I'm having problems with getting and holding GPS lock with 2.5. 

Electronics protection

I was kind of curious about something and Im sure its been asked before. Sense there are all sorts of electronics that end up being exposed on your drones do you, or can you, cover them in some kind of way to protect them? I always picture my plane l

get_bearing understanding

I dont know if this is best place to ask these fairly beginner questions.  I have been spending the last few weeks reading though and understanding the autopilot code as best I can, and also learning lots about micro controller programming as I go al

Price difference between ublox receivers?

I was just looking around at the procerus website and was just wondering why their ublox gps receivers are so much more expensive ($325) then those that we can buy from sparkfun, or the diydrones store? for less than 100$? (when they are in stock :P)

PIC16F690 PBP code for transmitter and receiver using XBEE 900

Transmitter

'pic16f690 and PBP Joystick 38400baud only transmit 900 bytes/sec,30 servo pulses a sec.

'GPS is also transmitted from plane on same xbees 500 bytes/sec 2.5hz of GPS data

'xbee 900 38400baud, transparent mode,broadcast,RO=0,MT=0(broadcast mu

In Flight Programming

I am building a medium sized UAV that I need to be able to reprogram in flight.  I will admit, I really dont know anything about how these auto pilots work and so I will be needing some assistance from all of you.  I will be running on board long ran

QuadPower QuadCopter Project

ayuda en español

hola si alguien me puede ayudar con info en español sobre el ardupilot y como lo puedo conseguir para traerlo al ecuador

XBEE RC control

Hello people!

I want to make an UAV but because of the components i want to use i neead a really low current consumption. So i was thinking, what if i take out the RC receiver and make the control using the XBee Pro 900. Meaning: using the XBee for te

Rate of climb speed and airspeed

Hi there,
I have a question. Looking at Honeywell Micro UAV specification.
http://www.defensereview.com/stories/honeywell/Honeywell%20Micro%20Air%20Vehicle_Data%20Sheet.pdf

I don't understand why is the rate of climb speed slower than the airspeed. isn

Flying with v2.5.01

Had a few flights this morning with v2.5.01, things went pretty well and I had my GPS logger with me so was able to log the flight. RTL worked fine and AUTO sort of OK too after some tweaking, not using autopilot throttle yet and I've changed the fol