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Does anyone have personal experience with KDE motors? I have two sets of four; one set each of two sizes. The larger size seems to work fine, but the smaller size, 2315 have serious vibration issues. Even balancing them the best I can with th
Read more…Hi, I'm doing some research relating to my first drone, which is a Quanum Nova Pro kit (should arrive any day). One vid I watched mentions calibrating via Mission Planner. How necessary would this be? I am with a macbook, and it seem Mission Planner
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Hello everyone,
I begin today to make my own drone and I'm a complete novice .
I am reading several tutorials and my choice edge on the manufacture of a drone FPV Racing with a Pixhawk Flight Controller .
I want to make my own chassis in 3D ( at fir
I'm being shot at by a crazy local guy!
I'm flying my small fast 250 size quad over the field at the back of my (UK) house, between 10-30ft in the air, just back and forth in a line.
I think it has happened three times, the first two times I did not fu
Read more…Modern aircraft using Flight Management Systems (FMS) as well as general aviation aircraft using GPS navigation have wind readouts providing actual wind direction and velocity from the aircraft. We are trying to get this data for flight tracking and
Read more…So when I take off in STB everything is fine at mid throttle. But when I switch to Loiter mode the IRIS+ climbs? Any thoughts on if this is a ESC problem or Param problem?
Read more…My quad has had many flawless flights without any issues (100 or so flights).
Recently during a flight, while in stabilise and alt hold, it suddenly pitched forward (maybe more than 45 degrees) and yawed 360 degrees and then recovered. I'm pretty sure
Read more…This used to be the one very annoying issue in mission planner, that the command column was hiding so text and you could not expand manually. The latest version just came out V 1.3.40 build 1.1.6104.19708 which has this part fixed! Many thanks to th
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I decided to build my own pixhawk version and just made compile environment on my mac mini with OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and followed every instructions described in the ardupilot wiki page.
Now I setup compile environment on Eclipse and successfu
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First post from a complete noob here.I need some advice from you guys regarding an experiment Im planing to conduct.
I need to measure aerodynamic performance of Bixler or some similar aircraft.
The data Im after are, Airspeed, Motor Current, MOTOR
Hi everybody,
I recently finished building a device that can find and point to the center of mass of any object placed on its platform. Here is a video demonstrating how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthfnBEyxW4
(Here, I used an object with
Read more…I've been looking everywhere to try and find out if you have to have a ground control station set up to fly missions. Since the waypoints are sent to the pixhawk through usb and are stored as gps coordinates I didn't think it needed to communicate wi
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To takeoff an arducopter using any MAVLink ground station, I noticed that it was necessary to have a 3D fix for the GPS and the copter must be in GUIDED mode.
However, this is only possible in an outdoor environment to be able to get the 3D fix
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As 3D mapping using cameras which aren't aiming "90 degrees to the ground" (NADIR), say, aiming 45 degrees down, (so the fronts of buildings are better captured) - I did not find any option for flight planning in such way on the mission planner
Read more…Greetings.
We are attempting to program our PixHawks for fixed-wing Powered Gliders. We are only using four channels: Throttle, Aileron, Elevator and Rudder. Main Channels 1-4.
When we program them with Q Control, we can receive T / A / E and R from th
Read more…Hi everyone! I’ve been trying to do HIL to my airplane to check the autopilot because last time it did strange things, so I decided to see what happened.
I’ve seen lot of videos and reed some manual related to the steeps that you have to follow to set
Read more…Hi all I have some question about my project. I have old DIY drone using Arduino Due 32 bit from my senior my aim for this project is about avoidance system for quad copter by using ultrasonic sensor. Now I have Arduino Due and Pixhawk I want to conn
Read more…I am an engineering student who is working on a project to have a drone control another drone autonomously so one person could theoretically fly two drones but only have to directly control one.
I have no experience with quadcopters and am looking fo
Hello everyone, I'm a new member and I'm currently doing my master thesis.
The basic point of my work is to connect a raspberry pi (that will run OpenCV) that, according to camera video will send a signal to a flight controller (like pixhawk) move for
Read more…Hi all.
I just finished my build of skyhunter mini.with APM 2.6. All tuned nicely, 6mode flight enabled, flaperons etc. I'm using latest firmware in conjunction with 3dr power module.
GPS got 9 satelites no warning messages after startup.
Testing on the
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