Been trying to implement ackerman steering with a pixhawk but using two motors one on each wheel instead of a linkage. Not having much luck so considering other ways to accomplish this. Problem is my rover weighs about 40lbs has big tires and will re
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Thrilled to announce that Skysense will soon launch Skysense Planner - an Open-source Web Mission Planner for MAVLink Drones, including ADS-B aircraft tracking and Geofence management:
Get early access to demos, code and samples at http://www.s
Read more…I'm trying to use the aux pins in the pixhwak to control servo or leds. I am able to use the RC9 / RC10 / RC 11 for the same. But i want to extend it to RC12 / RC13 / RC 14 .i.e. Aux out 53/54/55 in pixhawk. But there are no servo buttons in mission
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So I have a working quad with an Frsky D4R-II receiver talking to an Frsky DJT transmitter. I'm using the receiver in the RC port on a pixracer running PX4.
I've been flying for a year or so now but I inherited the setup from a quad enthusias
Read more…I was going through the new designs around flying wings and recently noticed that Lehman Aviation came out with a new wing. Also saw the new parrot wing (Disco) and noticed and intresting design around both.
Both wings seem to have a central module th
Read more…I would think stability, but the downside of more parts that might break.
I had this idea of a multi-rotor with 16 motors, it's actually four identical quad-copters that stack together, 8 motors face up, the other eight face down, but they can fly ind
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I need to setup 2 small cameras with different lens in the nose with pan tilt servo gimbal, I found I can only fit the nano cameras to get 220 degree pan and 100 degree tilt. Here is the camera, have anyone tried it: http://hobbywireless.com/mini-
Read more…Is there anyone here try to modify the source code of Kalman Filter inside Pixhawk. I would like to ask is it possible and how difficult it is to modify and the source code of Kalman Filter. As I am using the Rover so 22 states of Kalman Filter are n
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Here at Airborne Projects we have been hard at work with new ways to bring MAVLink telemetry to the ground without extra parts. Specifically we are working on an Antenna Tracker that needs information about the whereabouts of the Drone, but
I'm guessing this will be an easy one, but something I've obviously missed in a software update..
While say hovering a Copter in Guided mode a number of red line boxes appear on the Mission Planner Satellite Image which border the Copter's position. T
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i have been away for a long time for health reasons, but i'm back and work continued during the last 3 years as it could.. One of them beeing more important than others...
I have been working since a while with a french company, CamGau
Read more…I'm building a small plane (Skywalker X-5) and I'm wondering where to put the following on the fuselage/wing, or more precisely their respective antennas:
- GPS/compass cell (I've got a pedestal mount)
- radio RX (TGY-iA6B 2.4GHz)
- telemetry RX (915
Read more…Good afternoon,
i have been away for a long time for health reasons, but i'm back and work continued during the last 3 years as it could.. One of them beeing more important than others...
I have been working since a while with a french company, CamGau
Read more…Can anyone tell me how can I fly my copter keeping costant distance between it and the ground, I want to use google earth data to achieve this, I think it is possible but I have some problem to figure it out...
regards
Read more…i bought this APM 3.1 from banggood.com http://www.banggood.com/MiniAPM-V3_1-Flight-Controller-With-Neo-6M-GPS-For-Multicopters-p-951861.html
When i plug it in my computer the lights go on, but my computer doesn't recognize the APM : (
please help m
Read more…The full listing is at dronechest.com
MAPIR Survey 1 cameras for sale $90
Red Light
IR Light
RGB (Visible) light
Mounts $17
Go to dronechest.com where I listed them to see more. If you don't know about Drone Chest, it is a new peer to peer online marketpla
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I'm new to this so this might be completely stupid but bear with me.
I'm thinking about creating a drone with no single-points-of-failure.
Could this work in real life?
Relay 1,2,.. are a bit abstract but the point is that they can select signal from
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Long time lurker but new member... So first off thanks for everything so far :)
So a new project I am working on is a new sensor platform based on an rather small autonomous rover. For this at the moment I have a pixhawk and a raspberry pi conn
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I have a problem with my Pixhawk, after turning the auto mode the plane is going down, but it takes right direction to the waypoint.
In RTL mode aircraft works perfectly, but after "homecoming" it goes down really fast.
Sorry about my en
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