Hi guys,I'm building my 1st drone and getting a bit lost when it comes to Motors. My drone currently weighs 900g, it's a 4 motor vtail setup using a 11.1v 3500mAh 25c lipo battery. I made a guess at the battery as I'm totally new to battery powered r
Read more…I am building a Qyadcopter from scratch. But my all motors doesn't start at the same time even when I am giving the signal from One potentiometer. So it should be run at the same time and same speed isn't.
Thanks In advance
Read more…Power problem – APM 2.x will not power up
07/14/16
Problem – APM 2.8 will not power up via power module but will power up normally with USB cable from PC in Mision Planner.
After I tried to add a buzzer to my APM (ordinary HobbyKing buzzer) via the grou
Read more…Hi everyone I have to build a drop mechanism which will be operated by 4 different servos individually. I would like to operate these servos alternately by using one aux switch on my turnigy 9x. Is there a possible way to operate 4 servos one by one
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this is my first time working with and attempting to run arducopter on an apm 2.8 board. I have everything set up and ready to go, and can arm my motors, but once they start spinning at their idle rpm's (min throttle) any throttle inpu
Read more…Hello,
As i mentioned on the title .. i'm totally new with pixhawk
I need to ask some question that i did not found any answer when i google it.
1. The I2C extender - why i need this ?
2. I saw on some places on the web that there is some GPS ( 3rd
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Im having difficuly setting up the FPV camera on my pixhawk and having it respond to the RC input. It wont move around and I cant get the GCS to read the channel 6 input.
Im using the RC805 transmitter system with 14db antennas
Im using the Q
Read more…Before Solo there were many hobbyists using APM and Pixhawk. It was our frustration that the Gopro was not something we could control, not even the trigger ( without risking a dead Gopro). So 3DR did a deal with Gopro and the Solo got the feature of
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I really need your support in order to finish my UAV for survey purposes.
The setup is:
I need to
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After some bad experiences with my Revo clone I decided to jump on a Pixhawk 3dr but this product is now out of sold in 3dr and others vendors.
Do you know what it happens and what could be the recovery date ? Does it mean the pixhawk is n
Read more…Does anyone know how to plan a single flight line that can stay at a constant elevation above ground while taking autonomous overlapping imagery. Is this possible in mission planner? thanks!!!
Read more…Just a quick question, I did search but couldn't find anything except that 3.2 was updated with stall prevention and I was wondering if 3.1.1 actually has stall prevention?
I know... I could just install 3.2 right? But I had some problems with newer v
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Just wondering if there's any info out there for how to Autotune with Quadplane.
Haven't found anything on Ardupilot or DIYdrones just yet.
Do you just us the flight mode AUTOTUNE in both Qhover. Disarm. and then FBWA?
Also a bit of info about
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I know a lot of people watch these groups and was hoping someone might help me out.
Does anyone know a company who makes custom sensors for UAV Survey/Mapping Applications? Or who wants to start making custom sensors for UAV Survey/Mappin
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I've been using and building drones for a few years now, and general shortcomings, I find are: noise, flight time, payload capacity, waterproof space for sensor and computing additions. These shortcomings of cour
Hi guys, I need some help regarding inrunner and outrunner motors.
We are building a drone similar to the germany E-Volocopter which can carry a human. But right now we are just building a prototype first which is about 40 Kg for the whole prototype.
Hi guys, I need some help regarding inrunner and outrunner motors.
We are building a drone similar to the germany E-Volocopter which can carry a human. But right now we are just building a prototype first which is about 40 Kg for the whole prototype.
Hi folks!
I not very experienced with this but like to test out new stuff. I tested to load a flightplan and run it in SITL. Anyway i always get alarms from EKF like velocity variance and the it wont run. Quad was located outside and about 10 sat on g
Read more…Hi. I am trying to get RTL reason via telemetry. Is it possible? Are there ways to get this information out of Pixhawk? There is a mode_reason_t in defines.h, so I assume this information is available, but how to get it?
Thanks
Roman
Read more…Hi i am relatively new to this so please don't bash me with my question, i am curious what gps format does the arducopter read or save ? My project requires the UAV to look for a target and fly there, we are hoping that we can maybe find the rough di
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