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How to DIY a drone by yourself ?

I'm a newbie on DIY drones, I only bought a brand drone from online shop in the past. Now I plan to DIY a drone , but I don't know how to begin, how to choose the motor, the lipo battery, camera... I want to make a drone have long flight time. How to

APM2.8 Problem

What I am trying to do is use channel 8on APM to activate a electronic switch.I have verified it is working by using Channel10 and can see it operating, but when I assignChannel 8 it does not work at all.I have put CH8 Opt to Relay On/off and alsoAss

Of_loiter mode ?

Hi everyone I'm not able to see of loiter mode in mission planner 1.3.41 so anybody can say me how to resolve this issue.Thanks

Battery efficiency - Lipo Multistar 6s 12Ah

Dear all,

I'm facing an issue and wondering why my Battery (6s 12000mAh) supposed to provide a 35mn flight time just gives 20mn (Out of Battery)... Then, Check voltage after landing... 23.24v (50%).

Details:

C Rating is:10

Battery Voltage to failsafe was

Of loiter mode hidden in mission planner

Hi everyone I'm not able to see of loiter mode in mission planner 1.3.41 so anybody can say me how to resolve this issue.Thanks

Dronekit and mission planner

Hi i am wondering if it is possible for dronekit is able to pause mission planner mission in auto mode and switch to guided mode then afterwards resume the auto mission ?

FILT PID parameter in arducopter 3.4.1

Hello internet,

Quick question, would someone be able to explain to me the FILT parameter in the PIDs for arducopter 3.4.1 and above? Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Will F

Hexa fly away in loiter mode

Hi,

Dear Droners :)

Every thing was OK, copter stays in loiter mode without any problem.
After slight modification, added FPV TX, OSD and LC Filters and Gimbal cpter is flaying away in loiter mode. It looks like it change position very aggressively. GPS

Different amount of MAVLink messages received

Hi,

The flight controller I got is Pixhawk px4 bl fmu v2.x.

I also have a imx6 board (linux kernel  ubuntu system) to receive the MAVLink messages from the controller. I do a serial programming in C to get the data from the serial port (ttyACM0) which

My Introduction

Hello

My name is Peter Carlton and I am the drone enthusiast since 2014, and during 2 years I have tried many drones, helicopters and RC cars.

When I first started with this hobby, I wasted tons of money for poor-quality RC models, which I was buying f

Multiple Ph.D. Positions in UAV and Robotics

The survey of Customer satisfaction with Drone's portability

Hi there, I'm currently an engineering student at University of Seoul in South Korea. We have recently launched a project to design smaller drones.

We're planning to develop a technique that can make drone smaller automatically.

( ex. if you want to pu

V frame motor configuration for Hexacopter

Hello everybody,

First I want to thank all participants of this forum who helped me a lot of to build my UAVs.

I have just finished to build my hexacopter with a V-shaped

After the first test flights, I found some instability on the Yaw angle.
Can you he

My first quad: stable descent only, transmitter for emergency

I posted something similar over at the Ardupilot forum, but I don't know that they're really about addressing newbie questions.

I've spent a couple months just researching in preparation for my first quadcopter project. My quadcopter is the payload of

Simulink Code generation for 3dr Solo

Although Mathworks PSP supports code generation in  3dr Iris(with embedded pixhawk), does simulink provide any tools for automatically generating flight code for the 3dr solo (with pixhawk 2)? Or how can we expand the present PSP to generate code in

A poll on how you use your drones. (SCHOOL PROJECT)

Title says it all. This is part 2 of my data collection, my first poll was on r/drones, so if you visit that subreddit often you might've seen this before. The survey

Telemetry from APM2 to mission planner via UDP

Hi,

I'd like to ask your help because I'm so stucked in with APM I cannot figure out what the mission planner needs to receive from it to being properly connected.

What I do is have a raspberry connected to APM2 via telemetry where a py script reads ou

Flight controller

Hello all I am new on here and to the drone community. I am looking for some help in deciding on which flight controller to go with. I am building a quad drone for photography, also ongoing development project. I would like it to have GPS but I am un

JJPro P175 not working?

Hello!

I am new to the confusing world of drones and I was given the JJPro P175 as my first drone!

I cannot get it to work though for reasons which confuse me. I was given the bind and fly version, so I bought the Flysky FSi6 controller to go with the

MinimOSD Extra for Airspace Warning?

I'm working on a project where we are attempting to transmit a warning on 5.8GHz when a drone enters a restricted airspace, and figured there has to be  an easy way to implement MinimOSD or similar. The current through it to just hook up a camera wit