I am working on a build using a HK retractable landing gear that is rubbish. It is giving me headaches from day one actually. It rattles and is flimsy. Therefore i would like to set the landing speed to 15cm/s. If i try this i get the message that th
Read more…Hi guys, we are doing a drone which has 12 motors, 6 on top and 6 below acting as a coaxial configuration. I would like to seek assistance for configuring such drone in mission planner.
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I am trying to use a RPi 2 and a Pixhawk to run a computer vision algorithm which then inputs flight commands to ArduCopter 3.3. I was wondering if there was a way to do this without having to go through mavproxy as the flight commands will nee
Read more…I have ppm configured on 3 quads using a eachine racer 250....apm 2.6 f450....and Pixhawk s500.....problem is i cannot get anything else to work...besides the quad controls and flight modes..i don't want to use pwm....could someone please help me? I
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I've met a crazy and dangerous issue again, my copter flied to the sky and out of control.
Firmware: RC3.3 ArduCopter
Copter: octa, Agricultural Copter with 10kg water.
Issue:
first time,:
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I have developed a Windows GUI for 3-axis magnetometer calibration (see screenshot below), and it is available for download at https://github.com/paynterf/MagCalTool. The tool accepts comma, tab, or space-delimited magnetometer data via a select
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I have a pixhawk PX4 and am developing a control program for fixed wing plane and wanna to test it with simulator XPlain 10. I found manual for connecting QGroundControl with XPlain (in attachment). But in that manual QGroundControl v. 2.0.0
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I just built my first copter with the following configuration
Hexa copter
APM 2.6
GPS with on board compass
firmware version is 3.2.1
I have setup and calibrated everything but it keeps on flipping front to bottom
Here is a video
Read more…Hi guys, we are building a 12 rotor copter but mission planner does not have the frame type for the 12 rotor. I would like to seek assistance for configuring this 12 rotor motor. Thank you.
Read more…Hi. Had a flyaway today. My heavy hexa (11kg) with Pixhawk ArduCopter 3.3.3 crashed into a tree after something failed in RTL sequence.
After analyzing all info in both dataflash and tlogs, I can not find anything wrong. RC Connection was lost and the
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I am trying to find a drone similar to the 3DR Solo that uses mavlink and WiFi similar as Solo but I am hoping the manufacturer is not 3DR. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
Read more…Just over 3 years ago, we had a challenge finding an affordable portable digital video recorder (DVR) to pair with a monitor for FPV. We end up with a Angel Eye DVR made for security cameras to pair with a Sharp portable analog TV (that quickly beca
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this is Liffish Hou from Shenzhen, China. i love rc products very much. hope you can add me to your contact list.
thank you so much for your time. look forward for your response.
Read more…If it were possible to safely jettison one or more depleted batteries from a drone during flight, the range or flight duration could be increased. Similar "staging" techniques are used during multi-stage rocket flight, dropping tip tanks from an airc
Read more… I built my F- 450 and the truth is not occurring , the battery only lasts about 5 or 4 minutes if not less , the configuration is as follows :
APM 2.8
Vareadores 30A
Chasis F-450
Controladora y Motores del Cheerson CX-20
GPS M8N
Baterías del Cheerson CX-2
Hi all,
I'm a noob to FPV and have recently put together my first kit of hardware. The setup operates well enough in most ways, but the useful range is only about 50m. This is not what I would expect with a 600mW transmitter.
Here's my setup:
500mm quad
Read more…If it were possible to safely jettison one or more depleted batteries from a drone during flight, the range or flight duration could be increased. Similar "staging" techniques are used during multi-stage rocket flight, dropping tip tanks from an airc
Read more…Hi well had my iris in the air at weekend and could not get it down controls not responding now it fell out of the sky and it started to rain smoke started pouring out of it and what ever was behind air vent on bottom of iris has melted the air vent
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Arduplane 3.4
Definition Stabilize Roll & Yaw:
1. In Stabilize Mode when I Roll the Yaw also Increments to improve the turn.
Definition Inverted:
1. Switch Inverted Reverses the Arduplane Attributes for Roll, Pitch & Yaw allowing normal sti
Read more…HelloI've built a drone (quadcopter) with Pixhawk as its flight controller. I want to navigate this drone indoors where GPS signals are absent. I came across a few methods but I couldn't find out how to do it.1. Camera, laser scanner, IMU (simultaneo
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