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Is there a "popular" flight controller like how the Ender 3 is to 3D printing?

I'm looking to get back into ardupilot and I'm a little overwhelmed at the flight controller options. My last board was the original ArduPilot Mega from 10 years ago. I'm wondering if there is a reasonably priced, popular/standard flight controller o

Need Motor Suggestions: Heavy (18+ kg) quadcopter for school project

I was wondering if anyone had any motor/prop combo suggestions for a multi-disciplinary school project involving an airframe of about 18 kg.  We're looking at every option we can find, but it's a little hard to look motors up by thrust capabilities,

[Big Talk] - To school or not to school in UAS

Greetings!

Some info about me before I go on, I am a watchmaker for about 5 years now and I've been looking to having a career change. What got me fascinated about mechanical timepiece is that I can literally see how it works and how well it made sens

Complete Kit for Education

I belong to a robotics club which has recently become facinated with these drones. We can get funding to purchase one from the local school district, but we need to get everything from one website/supplier to make the billing easy. if we bought this 

FS-x6b not communicating with F4 V3s Plus

F4 V3s Plus does not have IBUS port. Tried ti use, as advised a free UART. Inmy case RX 6 and set:

serialrx_halfduplex=OFF

serialrx_inverted =OFF

I did set the receiver to IBUS as well as on my FS-i6 RC.

That did not solve the problem.

I tried another app

Innovative Interesting UAVs

The next “big thing” is always in the spotlight in today’s society.  Many companies now prioritize how their devices will stand out among the standard items in the market, so there is an abundance of innovative UAVs for consumers.

We will explore some

Vision-based navigation

I am looking for vision-based navigation systems.  Imagine an environment where no GPS or RF connection to the drone is available.  Can a drone navigate by (for example) looking straight down and following a road network? 

This project is crucial, and

How to connect a 0-190Ω gas tank sensor to the APM 2.8 controller?

Hello,  I have a project which requires a gas tank sensor to talk to the APM 2.8   The gas tank sensor is the typical 0-190Ω variety like this:

one: https://www.amazon.com/Sending-Waterproof-Adjustable-0-190ohm-240-33ohm/dp/B09CYNP7KW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=

Help! ESC config or Motor slider issue

Balancing propellors and motors

Hi All,

I'm not sure if this is the forum to place this, but it just might be interesting to some of us..

A while ago I was waiting for having my car-tires balanced when I thought that must be possible with my motor-prop combination as well.
So what I d

I’m in desperate need of help with my 2 year lasting chinese-knockoff-nightmare-quad build!

Hi everyone,

First of all, let me say that I think this is a fantastic forum / platform. I've been following it for a while without the use of an account and decided it was about time to sign up. The reason I signed up is because I am in desperate n

Heavy Lift (20-60Kg) Frames ... who has one?

Over the last three years I have been monitoring the web for evidence of large, heavy lift, commercially capable systems, for loads in excess of 10Kg


As many of you may know, there are a lack of larger frames on the market, that can handle more than 1