hello, my query is how the remotely located drones will communicate with base station?
which module can be used for reliable communication between drone over long distance and remote station?
Read more…Hey guys. Thanks in advance for the help. I wanted to verify something. I had my quad working great and wanted to add an OFS. I hooked it up correctly and did the solder bridge where I cut the 5v bridge and bridged the 3.3v on the back of my APM 2.8.
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I'm pretty new to drones. I did participate in the FIRST Robotics competition (if anyone knows what that is), so I'm not entirely new to building autonomous robots.
Anyways, I've always wanted to build my own quad-copter. I recently got severa
Read more…Hello, as the title says, I've built an XQUAD drone based on readytoflyquad's MultiWii Pro 2.0 Flight Controller. My setup is the following:
Does Mission Planner still support Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulations?
Today's latest update of Mission Planner changed the simulation tab such that connecting with X-Plane is no longer an option.
Furthermore, links to images of Ardupilot for HIL w
Read more…Puchased a JD Drones IO Board as i would like to fire up some LED's from the APM2.8 Controller
Has anyone any code or can give any assistance with this as their is not much out
there for setting this up correctly.
I can read and write to it from the jD-
I just opened my birthday present. Arturo per 2.6 with Gps, and all the extras needed to add to my f450 flamewheel clone I built a while ago. I just started an rc club in the middle school I teach in and have a bunch of kids ready to learn. My goal i
Read more…Hi everyone, I would like some suggestion on choosing the right drone for a project that I'm going to start at university. The project is about a distributed robotic system. We have a general idea (and a matlab code) of the main logic of the system a
Read more…I want to practice some of my drone flying, etc. on my computer. I have found good software for a PC, but not for a MAC. Do you have any recommendations of MAC software?
scott
Read more…I have fitted a pixhawk that was provious on a plane and loaded it with the latest copter firmware. i am finding that the pixhawk is rebooting itself everytime it gets to 50% throttle. is there anyone who can assist
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I think this is a very basic question, but still couldn't get a solid guide line from google or the forum till thus far. From what I can gather, Pixhawk auto-pilots use extended kalman filters to accurately determine its position & orientati
Read more…This morning I got the idea of using a 3-axis gyro module lsuch as the 10-DOF IMU along with a Raspberry Pi to control a continuous rotation microservo mounted the bottom of the quad. Attached to the servo would be a small LED headlamp flashlight. Th
Read more…hi I seen model airplanes with a homing button on your radio so if you loose sight of it
you hit a button and it comes back to me and then circles around way points or so I forget the model I seen that comes with it.. it has a holding pattern wh
Read more…Hi all,
I setup a pixhawk drone equipped with a servo controlled sprayer to automatically open nozzle during auto mission.
For the survey mission, I included arbitrary waypoints before and after each survey line and set the output pwm for closing and
Read more…This is my first quadcopter build and it is for an engineering project. We need a quadcopter that is atleast on the mid-size level, possibly large-size scale. How would experienced drone makers go about deciding on the frame? If our frame limits are
Read more…Dear,
Recently, I am doing my thesis project relate to computer vision on Drone
I choose to use Raspberry pi 3 to do image processing and communicate with Pixhawk via Dronekit api
I am following this instruction to make a connection of 2 boards: http://
Read more…Hi guys i am given a project whereby the drone have to locate and fly towards an object on the ground. We will be given a waypoint T and the object will be within the radius of for say 100 meters around point T.
My team is using openCV for detection.
Read more…Hello everyone, i own a assault reaper 500 and for some reason the controller went dead on me and i know you can buy a replacement but before i do i was just wondering if there are any other flight controller that have variable pitch ability?
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I have connected the motors on my F450 quad but if i run them in stabilise or loiter they only run at half speed. If i switch to RTL they then run at full speed.
Regards
Pete
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