Hello all,I've been having some troubles recently in switching between manual and automatic control on my ArduPilot board. It is currently controlling a crawler-type RC car, as some others have attempted. When I first power on the board (initially un
Read more…Hi all, Does anyone have a recommended mounting location on the Superstar for the FMA horizon sensor? Regards, TCIII
Read more…After learning in my last thread that the ArduPilot roadmap is going in the direction that I was considering branching it, I tried to think of the best way for me to help accelerate the effort without duplicating existing projects or stepping on anyo
Read more…One of the members posted a new design flying wing today and mentioned it had the Kline-Fogleman airfoil. I did some research on this unique airfoil and came up with this.Here is a short article about the design: http://bfoamy.com/?page_id=664And her
Read more…I was preparing RS-232 plugs for connecting my high wings to the fuse of my Kadet Senior UAV (to get rid of the cable salad when mounting my wings. When I had to wire the DC power for the FMA CoPilot sensor, a question came suddenly: what DC should I
Read more…Here is a little gem I found but I am not too good at i2c communications.It is an smd500 baro pressure module that runs on 3.3 vdc. Anyone had any experience with this part ? I am going to use it for altitude in my autopilot I'm developing.http://www
Read more…Hello everyone - love the site, been lurking for some time now as I prepare to build my first drone.Speaking of which - I have a simple goal in mind - I want to build a drone based on the Multiplex EasyStar Powered Glider, which is highly recommended
Read more…Hey all, I'm new around here, but I've been following the blog for quite some time and I'm excited to see the strength of this community!I am very interested in expanding the capabilities of the ArduPilot platform and I've got some specific modificat
Read more…hello all!My name is Brandon and i am a student in la hoping to put together a simple but reliable quadrotor for a research project this summer. I have been flying rc helis for a couple years now and have gotten intimately familiar with the variable-
Read more…Hi all, I have been looking at the BananaHobby SkyMaster. It can be bought for $25 off the selling price if you leave off the transmitter/receiver. If this is the same SkyMaster (Not the Nitromodels gas SkyMaster) that Chris has talked about, has a
Read more…Hi,I'm interested in setting up an ad hoc wireless network of cameras for an event. Some would be in rc airplanes and some would be on the ground. Ideally, I'd like to have each camera function as an ad hoc node on the network (i.e. propagate signals
Read more…For various personal amusement and search and rescue applications, I am looking for an airframe that has a reasonably long flying time, something on the order of 1-4 hours, with bonus points for higher :)I want something easily portable, fast to set
Read more…I posted a blog post about my pan & tilt system based on Nunchuck game handle, Xbee Pro 868 RF modems, Arduinos, and digital camera shutter here.Your comments or suggestions are welcome in this discussion. I'm interested if anybody is doing similar a
Read more…Hi, I'm new here and I'm amazed with the work already accomplished !I just have a few questions :-About the FMA Attitude controller :How is an input in the FMA translated ? Does it offset the attitude of the plane by the value of this input ?I can't
Read more…Hi every one. i am new to here, i an using the latest 1.0 code, FMA and EM-406GPS,when switching on the AP, it does not go where it should be, when i set it to RTL is fly-away.Same as the way point..Try to set the yaw rev, but still no luck.. doing t
Read more…Hi!I would like to make an autonomous helicopter. I've heard that planes are easier, so I can't decide... I have never flown a heli or a plane before. I have 800 dollars, what's the best uav setup for me? (Note: I'm an absolute beginner and I really
Read more…Hello,People from rcgroups adviced me to post the following questions here.I have some question (s) related to arduino autopilot. These questions are actually related one to the other questioning similar "situations".1.) Let's say that I design a tra
Read more…Hi allSince losing all my kit in an accident last year and being away ive decided to start again and all i can say is its moved on a bit from rcap2:-)Anyway my new aircraft are a 62" dh beaver from kit and a 110" pzl wilga from plans and im going to
Read more…I am a graduate student and I plan on conducting research with the aid of a r/c plane mounted with a live-feed video camera. Pilot would be flying line-of-sight while another individual used the monitor and camera. This would be in military and publi
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