Hi All,
I have a situation where after upgrading to some high-end ESCs, I have one at random go into calibration mode. This happens on about 1 in 4 flight attempts. The only way to restore proper operation is to repeat ESC calibration with Mission Pla
Read more…Hello people, my first post on DiyDrones.
Very glad to be here!
Just got myself a brand new Fx-61 + Pixhawk Lite
This will be me first experience with the Ardu firmware
My goal is to run the plane, as light as possible.
Had a very good success with the Z-
Read more…We are company providing Drone Data Services and have experience of mapping large areas using drones. We have been building High Performance Composite UAVs for mapping Application. We have built drones that flies for two hours and carries about 1kg p
Read more…Flying in Auto mode my plane made nearly crashed in the ground making a right turn and decent.
After waypoint 4 a right turn and decent from 20m to 5 m was requested, however the plane fall to 40cm (above ground), then plane corrected to the requeste
Read more…This custom designed hexacopter is a double deck unit that allows all six arms to fold back for transport. I have it listed on eBay here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=322254886402&roken=cUgayN&soutkn=yQKGpO
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My initial problem was my copter falling out of the sky when it loosened 4 of it's 6 props due to the motor nuts thread direction vs it's spin direction (i got CCW motors before i knew better).
I have a Y6B set-up, that is;
6 Prop, Coaxial Y frame w
Read more…I want to modify some value in log file and test.
In mission planner the form is too complex.
And I want to create IMU , ATT and GPS by simulating with RCOU data.
Please help.
Thanks.
Read more…I am selling my Connex HD which I have had for a year or so. It is boxed with all accessories and in excellent condition. I have it on an auction site for £875 but will sell it here for £850 as I wont have to pay the fees. SRP is between £1300 and £
Read more…I would like to get 6 flight modes on my APM 2.6 with my FS-i6 transmitter. With one mix setting, I have managed to get four flight modes onto Ch5. The setting I have is:
Mix #1
Mix is On
Master Ch6
Slave Ch5
Pos. mix 50%
Neg. mix 75%
Offset 0%
That gets my
I just purchased a Pixhawk with a Neo-n8m GPS, but for some reason I can't get the GCS to recognize that there is a GPS lock. I haven't gone through the RC Calibration and whatnot first, as I figured I would get the GPS working first. I am getting a
Read more…I have used Mission Planner many, many times on my APM boards.
Now, I'm trying to move up to PixHawks.
I have two units. One is a "genuine" PixHawk, the other is a mini PixHawk clone from ReadyToFly Quads.
On the PixHawk:
It connects to Mission Planner
Read more…So the pixhawk is out of stock at 3DR for god knows how long, where do you get your hardware? looking for a high quality source for both the controller and GPS.
thanks
Read more…Hello Diydrones!
Last time I have ordered the cheap china 3dr telemetry radios. The inscription on them says that they're ,,mini'' and version 1.6. I've never seen them before. They works pretty good with Mission Planner and on the android device. So
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I made engine tester based on arduino. I would like to ask you, if someone/something does exists ? I found only too expensive commercial project: https://www.rcbenchmark.com/.
My cost only few $$ and I dont know if Im missing something. Here is wh
Read more…Is there a reciprocal for MAV_CMD_DO_SET_SERVO ? I'm basically trying to make sure, programmatically, that a servo has a PWM value successfully set after I send a DO_SET_SERVO command.
I tried to listen for RC_CHANNELS_RAW and SERVO_OUTPUT_RAW messag
Read more…Hi guys I am using arducopter 3.3.3 and I am pretty happy with it, but I would like to understand something which is still not clear to me,
From reading on the arducopter forums, if I understood correctly, the FC tries to recognize the flying and the
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I am very new to ardupilot, and a new user on this forum. Hope someone can help me, with my problem. I am running arducopter 3.3.3 on my DJI F550 hexacopter.
When i try to calibrate my compasses, my compas#1 looks okay. But my compas#2 doen't
Read more…I would like to set up a drone for a 20 to 30 kg payload, but I really don't now wich engines can work for me. Thanks to anybody that can help me!
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I've been browsing the forums for awhile now, learning and lurking as they say. I purchased a quad copter kit from Amazon using a DJI 450 Flamewheel design. It came with some simonK 30A esc's, and some ReadyToFly 2212 motors. I managed
Read more…Hello!I am quiet new to ArduPilot, I started to work with it on code-level two month ago. Right now I am trying to send data through a serial port. It said, that UART 2 is free to use for own purposes. But when an other device was connected to UART 2
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