my drone is toppling to one side and crashing instead of hovering. i have a feeling that one motor is rotating at a lesser RPM compared to the others. How do I check the RPM of each motor? I know a laser tachometer can be used but i don't have one. C
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Hi everyboady can you help me please?.. I got a APM Pro clone and a BN880GPS but I got a bad compass health and i cant calibrate it.. When I disable MAG, bad compass health disapears but I still got a Compass1 99 error and no calibtration and weirdly
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I need your Help.
What I want to do is I want to adapt a gimbal (servo) which only steers the yaw heading of the kamera to a completely manual steered fixed wing. The gimbal is autonomous from the plane and controlled by a PixHawk on which a
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So I'm trying to make a drone use the precision landing feature to land on a target by using a camera and sending vehicle.message_factory.landing_target_encode() MAVLINK messages using the dronekit API based on where the target is in the came
Read more…I am operating the 433 MHz radios at a narrower range ~2MHz.
I was wondering what was the right way to choose the number of channels based on frequency width of transmission
Thanks
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I recently bought a custom hexacopter, made of carbon and size 800mm. It flied well 6 or 7 times.
Today I was flying in Loiter (with Pixhawk) and suddenly saw some smoke and the hexa began to go down. When I reached the place I saw one motor b
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I'm working on an CoaxCopter copter and we want to provide it of an autonomous flight mode without GPS, but using 3 sonars to detect objects in front-right-left of the copter.. We'd like to follow the following pattern:
1.- Altitude hold. (Already
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I'm trying to catch up with this HUGE learn curve for drones and ardupilot complexity.
My hexacopter is flying very well in LOITER and ALT HOLD, but so far, checking the logs it looks like it is overpowered.
I think it is good that the hexa
Read more…This is probably a very stupid question, but here it goes:
How do I start a mission in mission planner? Do I need to arm the copter myself? Do I need to set the drone to auto mode for the mission to start?
All the guides explain how to plan the mission
Read more…The original Wire Sizing worksheet was for ships with a short life span (world record setters, FPV racers, prototypes, etc). Now the worksheets has been updated to also account for Ampacity.
Ampacity takes into account the long-term life of the wire a
Read more…Hi , Id like to ask about anyone elses experience with the iflight g40 gimbal. Have any of you had it working well before without vibration issues? did you experience problems with vibrations making it unusable for video? I bought one and since get
Read more…Hi all, hopefully there will be someone who can shed light on the strange behaviour I experienced during an recent auto mission. I had carried out 2 auto mission during the course on Thursday morning and I was planning the third mission of the day, j
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Gemini IR-HD is a professional 3-axis gimbal for aereial inspection and survey with onboard FullHD 10x zoom camera able to support Flir thermal cameras Gemini IR-HD is compatible with any drones that that can sup
Read more…I would like to know more about PID. The math behind it, the calculations, the parameters, everything in detail. We know we can change the PID values on Mission Planner by observing the flight. That is what a customer does. But from a developer point
Read more…Hello, I am designing an extremely high gain system, it will be using a parabolic antenna.
The question I wanted to ask is what is the narrowest beam width that the antenna tracker can support? Lets say the sUAS is about 1 km out before it needs to u
Read more…Does anyone know of any recent Arduino MAVLink tutorials?
I would like to use an Arduino connected to the PixHawk to update waypoints, check current positions, etc. All the tutorials I could find (most rooting back to http://qgroundcontrol.org/dev/mav
Read more…Hello everyone!
I'm a multirotor enthusiast like most of you and I am also a mechanical engineering student!
I got a summer internship at a petroleum company for the Process and Occupational Safety department. My job consist to help department' teams o
Read more…Hi All,
I'm selling my 330mm Tricopter Build (GoPro not included).
I just don't have time to mess with it anymore and need to clear up some space.
I'd like to get $300 but I'm open to reasonable offers.
Pictures are attached. Let me know if they're n
