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Iris+ reduced throttle and crashed despite my full throttle command - no failsafe triggered
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…Powering Pixhawk servo rail from receiver
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…Price Dropped - SunnySky V2216-15 650kv Motors
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
Traditional heli build.
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…Pixhawk longevity?
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
Read more…MAVlink Connection Between Intel Edison and Solo 3DR Drone
Hi everyone,
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
Read more…PX4 Servo gimbal
Hi
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…Announcing QGroundControl 3.0
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
Read more…Please help
Hi guys
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
How does INS_STILL_THRES work?
Does this parameter look for the status of (vibex, vibey, vibez) and return "still" if they are all below the value of INS_STILL_THRES?
Bonus question: does this effect the algorithm when the autopilot determines if it has landed? I know it used to be
Read more…All Aluminum 600-class QuadRotor
After several weeks I finally got my new all-aluminum frame 605mm quad-rotor flying. Ran it thru it's basic flight tests and PID tuning. And ran an endurance flight test with mixed flight modes, and not just in hover. I got 31 minutes 14 seconds f
Read more…pixhawk hardware issue or improvement ?
Hy all,
I have recently noticed something strange about the pixhawk 2.4.5 hardware.
One of the sensor on the pixhawk is called a LSM303D ( a 3D magnetometer and accelerometer)
I was looking at the pixhawk schematics that are to be found on github posted
Read more…RFD 900+ not working in conjunction with 3DR radio
I just received a pair of RFD900+ radios, and was expecting them to work (more or less) out of the box when used in conjunction with my 3DR radios. But they don't
I used a USB <-> TTL adaptor to connect to the RFD.
I downloaded and installed the RFD t
Read more…Strange apm 2.8!!!!
I recently bought a new apm 2.8 with neo 6m gps module and i configured using mission planner 1.3.39.1 build 1.1.6056.17827 and with version APM Copter v 3.3.3 quad. Did all the calibration and the quad fly's so stable in stabilize mode normally. NOW
Read more…brief explanation of the transmitters and receivers in iris+ drone
Hi guys, I'm using an Iris+, anyone here can explain me the roles of the FrSky D4-II, the internal(inside the iris+) 3DR radio, the external 3DR radio (usb plugged in a computer/phone) and there is a transmitter in the radio controller. I wanna know
Read more…HakRC Storm32 Gimbal Problems- Help?
Ok, so this is my second HakRC Storm32 Gimbal I've purchased from Gearbest.com
They both have arrived not working correctly. I don't get it...Below are links to videos of what's going on, basically during the initial boot up the thing malfunctions a
Read more…System identification for Multi-rotors
i have noticed the lack of research in the past 2 years (2014-2016) on system identification on quadcopters (multicopters in general). Back in 2013, i built my 1st APM based Quadcopter, and took advantage of the power that the open source provides. I
Read more…Modifying a Furious 320(g) Main Control Board for APM based waypoint flight
Perhaps this is the wrong board but this is my first post and we all need to start somewhere.
So I purchased a Walkera Furious 320 the other day. It was a really good deal so I could not pass it up, but it does not do what I want a drone to do. IE.
Altitude gap error in 1000m altitude goal mission :: HELP ::
hey guys im having a problem with my ardupilot arduplane on a mugin design airplane
( the plane doesnt make sure that it accomplished the altitude wanted for the waypoint ) the error started with just 15 meter highet error and then reached to more th
