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I would be grateful for some advice on the cause of a crash with what was previously a reliable home built quadcopter based around an apm 2.6 board as a flight controller.
The logs show that the fail safe was activated following a low RC signal whi
Read more…i just got my apm2.6 . there was no setup that came with it. so i didnt know what to do . so i got on youtube look easy. so i try it . didnt work . i got APM Planner 2.0 so far so good the next step was to download firmware for quadcopter . witch i
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This is my first quad and I'm very frustrated that I'm unable to fly it.
I configure it with the mission planner wizard.
When I arm the quad the props start to spin, but some of them are slowly. then If I raise the throttle a little, the props spin
Read more…can someone please take a look at my log file and tell me whats going on i am new to this.i have a f450 frame with apm 2.8 all calibrations was done and still wont fly right
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I built a quadcopter that was working very well until I recently started it up for the first time in a while. Suddenly a bunch of Yaw instability appeared. When flying normally or just hovering the quadcopter would randomly Yaw and if it was stabi
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I want to try and add for the HUD display the camera gimbal heading line so I can see what direction the camera is looking at( same Idea like the current heading line).
Is some one has an idea where I can find these configuration on the sourc
Read more…I'm looking to build a monocopter similar to Lockheed Martin's Samarai Flyer, can anyone suggest what flight controller I should use? Also if anyone can advice on what cheap transmitter and receiver I can use.
Read more…i want to know which processor is used to create my one rc plne used for DAS ?
and which type of OSD i should use ?
Read more…Hi guys! New to the forum. Thanks for having me.
I want to buy a DJI thats for sure, but i'm stuck between the 3 or 4. I want to buy the nicest and newest model, but i'm not sure if its worth the money.
http://dronelifestyle.com/drone-buying-guide/
Thi
Read more…Hi! I haven't been able to found any information on this (neither I have seen it on the usual GCS or mavlink common messages).
I have my own ground station, and I wanted to be able to tell the user whether the safety switch was on or not. Just to add
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The above animated gif should serve as a demo video to identify objects and close and distant layers
Hi,
I am looking for step-by-step manual on live obstacle avoidance algorithm based on depth maps live generated from 2 cameras.
There is a number of
Read more…I have been wanting to build a Quad-copter for awhile, but was lost trying to find out on google how a beginner like me can build one. So I was hoping that, everyone here at DIY Drones could help a beginner like me get started in this awesome hobby.
Read more…Hi everybody:-- this is what I’m trying to do.
A few months ago, I bought and successfully rebuilt a Phantom 3 pro drone, that had been crashed. After a dozen or so wonderful flights, it ran into a cluster of tree branches and suffered another mishap,
Read more…HI i have an competition coming up, can anyone tell me how can i program the drone such that it will first search then fly to an object and drop payload?
I am using pixhawk and Rpi(OpenCV and mavproxy)
Cheers
Fabian
Read more…So I've been trying unsuccessfully to interface a secondary GPS NMEA stream to my quad with Pixhawk installed. Finally I just connected my terminal program directly to Pixhawk and started sending a single GGA message.
Here is a sample message I've be
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I use to connect via UDP on my Navio2-Pi board.
Connection was OK with 1.3.39 but latest update broke it.
Something is wrong with the UDP connect dialog, listening port is replaced by continuous <<<<<<
I revert to 1.3.39 to restore UDP connect, if
Read more…My APM has been triggering failsafes around 11.4v for no reason that I know. It isn't losing radio connection (I'm just a few feet away from my drone usually) and the low battery is set to 10.5v. I want to look in the dataflash logs (downloadable via
Read more…I havnt been on here for a fair while. Still using the APM2 in a diy quadcopter UAV I want to do max range in a plane (UAV). Last time I looked the Techpod was the latest and most talked about kit. Are there any other resonably priced plane kits for
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