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Is there anyone out there who can recommend the appropriate drone & camera/surveying set-up to enable me to survey the bottom of lakes, ponds, rivers & marinas from the air rather than using sonar dragged by a boat?
Much as 3D mapping works above g
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I'm asking your help to integrate my equipment. I bought one hexcopter with pixhawk to make photos and mapping.
I read a lot about the Samsung NX500, they said that it an amazing cam and it is true but don't know how can I integrate this camera in
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I have a hexacopter using a Pixhawk flight controller and Mission Planner. Ultimately this copter will be controlled autonomously using an onboard computer running ROS. Right now, I need to run a quick test just to make sure everything works a
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I changed the controller to a Fly Sky X9 (Turnigy 9X) and set it up using Mission Planner.
I am looking for any open source Linux and C program-based Drone/UAV for my experiment. I need to run some basic linux tools (i.e., strace) both on the drone and ground controller.
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I have a drone with Pixhawk as its autopilot. I am trying to make it navigate indoors without colliding into objects. I am planning to use this Lidar camera. I want to know if there is a way to connect it to the Pixhawk. If someone could give me
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I am new in the community and I hope I will be part of it for a long time;)
What I am doing right now:
I have just made my first flight last week using a Phantom 2 vision +, I am able to process the data to obtain DSM+DEM using pix4Dmapper and th
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I have been working on a consumer transforming drone. Looking for Flight control experts, software programmers, engineers, or anyone who truly interested in this project.
There has been so many technology advancements over the past couple years. Wanted to drop a line to see if you guys can point me to some websites for companies that provides UAVs or UAV packages to support Search and Rescue. I build my own stuff -
Read more…Selling 4 very lightly-used SunnySky Motors.
X4108s-14 480kv
Maybe a total of 10 flights on these motors.
Very well balanced, have never been crashed or exposed to water just clearing out the workbench again.
Price Dropped to $115 for all 4 motors shippe
Read more…Hey everybody I thought our sign in information for this site (DIYdrones) was supposed to work in the new Ardupilot forums. Is that not correct?
Read more…The subject says it all. I was camping with my Iris, and my first flight was doing well, I started climbing to get a higher perspective and noticed the copter drifting so I switched to loiter. Right when I hit the switch it lost a ton of altitude s
Read more…Hi Gents,I am writing this to get your feedback. Like many of you I am using OPTO Esc's in my build. I am powering the Pixhawk from the 3dr power module and in the past I powered the servo rail by a bec attached to my PDB. With this new build I am tr
Read more…Selling 4 very lightly-used SunnySky Motors.
V2216-15 650kv
Maybe a total of 15 flights on these motors.
Very well balanced, have never been crashed or exposed to water just clearing out the workbench again.
Price dropped to $70 for all 4 motors
The traditional heli wiki has a page on how to setup traditional heli. However it is very old and it talks of APM 2.X rather than the current PixHawk. I build a traditional heli and it fly’s pretty good. For other people who might want to build th
Read more…So I have been flying with a 3DR Pixhawk for 2 years or so now without a single hardware issue but how long can this continue to be considered as reliable?
I guess that's an almost impossible question to answer as it will be the subject of many extern
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I have a Solo 3DR drone and an Intel Edison. I would like to send commands from the Edison to the drone via MAVlink. I need to keep the Edison in host mode, as I need it for vision processing; this processing will determine the commands s
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Does anyone any experience with gimbal Px4, I am trying to setup it opens the AUX channels but servos doesnt rotate,
I appreciate for your help in advance
Read more…We are happy to announce the release of QGroundControl 3.0. QGroundControl provides full flight control, mission planning and configuration for ArduPilot or PX4 Pro powered vehicles. It is available for Windows, Linux, OS X, as well as Android device
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I am wondering if there is someone can have in idea why mission planner doesn't want to connect with Xplane while I am trying to run a simulation in the loop for a plane .
The error showed up is that Mavlink can not receive heartbeat packets k
