I could averaging the values I measure and that would get rid of most of the noise, no need for a kalman filter! I would still have the thermal noise but I am assuming here it would be rather small.
Read more…HiJust got my easystar flying on its own and I am very impressed with its abilities with very little tweaking. The main problem is where I live it is very windy and as Chris has mentioned in a blog, when travelling up wind the easy slows to a crawl (
Read more…I was able to finally get around to implementing 2-way communication with the Ardupilot HW without using a separate Arduino. It's a really simple and straight forward solution. When I'm in autopilot mode I read the GPS as normal, when I'm in manual m
Read more…helpin trying to load my ardupilot white software 1.0 , the program frees up nothing is happening .it only say loading i/o then noting . can i wipe the ardupilot memory and start over or is the board scraped ? please helpi have the 168 board the prog
Read more…Ive always had the dream of making a stealth UAV to do low flyby's silently. The plan was to use them during paintball games in order to gain an advantage.My idea is the microcontroller gets the co-ordinates of the target, then flies 100ft higher fro
Read more…here is the error i get all of sudden when compileing ardupilot 2.3.1 and 2.4. very strange.dont know how to post images here so the screen shot of the error is attached.Error is as follows.In function 'void navigation()':error: 'The' was not declare
Read more…Hi,Ok im looking for some help here...I hope this is useful to others also as this wasnt obvious to me until this evening, stange things are afoot!...Ok the scenario..UAV1 - Running 2.4UAV2 - Running 2.3.1After a full day of testing ( well at least m
Read more…Just curious. How much voltage can the battery monitor handle on the shield? Can it also handle up to 15 volts? Thanks.
Read more…Hello guys! Really long time I didnt see this forum!Study and work is really stresseful and tired...But, I was talking with my friends in my work and some guy talk about Microsoft Robotics.I was looking and looks interesting. BUT Im not sure.My quest
Read more…Hi everyone,I am a new student to this area, and there are so many questions.First of all, what is the purpose of AT45 on the board while ATmega328 is used as main controller here. Also what if i want to control more servos?? can i use D6- D13 which
Read more…I have been having a few problems with stability in my ardupilot setup and so i have been investigating the xy sensor setup. I was surprised to read that in recent code releases it is ok to setup the xy sensor in a diagonal configuration because ther
Read more…Hi,which is the best (simple) tool to convert NMEA files from a GPS tracker to Kml files?I'm searching for something which permit to select start and end wp etc.Thanks,Ric
Read more…I'm working with a group that is equipping an RC airplane to fly autonomously. It is our first attempt, so there are a few things we do not have a good concept of yet.At the moment, we are focusing on integrating our GPS component and enabling commun
Read more…Hi thereI am quite new to this activity and i was wondering if anyone knows of a good beginner sailplane that I can also mount an autopilot on.thanks in advance
Read more…Hello,I need your help!Some weeks ago, I installed successfully Labview runtime.But now I cannot launch it anymore !!!I don't now how to launch it again.In "C:\Program Files\National Instruments" folder I don't see any executable file. How can I run
Read more…I've been trying to contact Dean at attopilot for over a month now but to no avail. Are attopilot units still on sale? I've seen here at DIY that an IMU based attopilot may be coming out in the future. Does anyone know any resolution on that release?
Read more…For the motor contorller (quad half-h driver) I notice in the shipping kit and in the published schematic, you use the L293D, but in the parts list you mention the SN754410NE. Why did you switch? Was there a problem with the SN754410NE?Thanks,-- Mitc
Read more…Hey guys, I've been wanting to make a UAV heli for a while now, finally taking the plunge with a plane first. I am going to start off with either an easy star or easy glider. I noticed some of the easy star kits come bundled with a very basic transmi
Read more…Im completly new to all of this. Ive been googling and reading for days. Im trying to find information on a Ducted Fan UAV like the militarys MAV drone. I would like to build one from hobby parts but i have no clue on where to start what hardware i w
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