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New UAV / MAV/ ROV brushless controller. Need inputs for Pix4 pro code...

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

What's the difference between ( Absolute , Relative , Terrain ) Alt in MP ?

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

APM 3.1 Not working

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

MAPIR Survey 1 Cameras for Sale - $90

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MAPIR Survey 1 cameras for sale $90

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Mounts $17

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Fully redundant drone with no single-points-of-faliure

Hi,

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

Pixhawk pitch forward misbehaving

Hi everybody

I have a rather odd problem:

I built a dji 450 flame wheel quad-copter with a pixhawk flight controller. I installed the firmware, chose the frame type (x), performed an accelerometer calibration, calibrated the compass and the radio and s

Ardupilot software on custom board

Hi all,

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

Pixhawk auto mode problems

Hello everyone!

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

I cant upload Optical Flow Sensor PDE on APM 1.4

I have DIY hexacopter. I will use optical flow sensor v1.0 but i cant upload firmware in APM 1.4 with mission planner. I tried Arduino IDE but still have same problem. Please help me... (Sorry for my bad English)

sending mavlink by c++

Hi friends im trying to send mavlink codes to my quadcopter by c++ code but Im completly confiused I have read about mavlink and i know what they are but I want to know how to send them to my autopilot with telemetry I found some codes but they didnt

Making my own ground station using MAVLink and MAVProxy

I want to create a ground station similar to Mission Planner and QGround Station. The reason I do not want to use the existing ground stations is because I do not need all the GUI. Can anybody help me in finding all the necessary documentations and l

Aerial Photo Drone

Hi everyone,After learning to fly I want a really good photo./video. 4k gopro drone. I refuse to get a DJI. Every blog, mag., etc recommends them, but they get bad reviews and have horrible cust. serv. I want a hobby store RTF built/factory heavy lif

Hassle to buy/sell drones

Cheeron CX-20 Pathfinder won't lift...Help!!

Hi all! New here and a friend gave me his Cheerson because he couldn't get it to lift, motors would spin but that's it.  Its an open source, I downloaded Mission Planner did all firmware stuff, calibrated the RC and while hooked to the computer doing

Pixracer Ultrasonic sensor

Hello World anyone know how to connect a ultrasonic sensor to Pixracer ?

onboard software flight stack comparison between PX4 and ArduPilot

Hi,

I know there's a lot of confusion out there on the onboard software question and I've been doing a bit of research on my own.  Most of the posts I found are from a few years ago and since things seem to change fast I thought I'd try to get an up-t

Lightware SF02 lidar and Pixhawk

Hi everyone,

Has anyone ever had any issues with interfacing the SF02 Lidar with Pixhawk 3.3V A/D port ?

I got 3 Lightware SF02s, 2 Pixhawks and only one SF02 works has described in http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-rangefinder-sf02.html . The 2

Which FPV Goggles To Buy?

well the title says it all,  I want a nice clear picture under $400.  I will be using the goggles on multiple vehicles.

Can a Rangefinder be used in Auto mode ?

Hi Guys, I plan on setting up a rangefinder to maintain constant low flight missions. I'm unsure however in which flight modes it will actually work in. I'm using the latest plane firmware on a Pixhawk. 

Does anyone have  experience with RangeFinders

Speed reduction in auto at windy day

Hello everyone,
after hundreds of automated flights (auto mode) on Original Pixhawk - Tower and Mission Planner - I noticed my first problem ... in connection with the wind! (North wind, around 30 km/h, 15 mph, 7 m/s)

Situation:

The speed survey of 200