with my octo (X8 frame; APM and MP on latest stable version) i did a survey mission some days ago and had two "instability issues" in the middle of the flight (on a part of the mission when the flight path was just straight on flying).
I plan to build a UAV for environmental monitoring, so came a question. What is currently the best fixed-wing airframe, considering the following aspects: payload of up to 3kg, stability, manual launch.
I am getting a PX4IO board not found error on boot of my newish Pixhack. Looking through various forums, it seems an issue may be the 3.3v regulator has broken (understandable, I did some silly stuff with power supply early on).
I am working on a quadcopter (plus frame). Everything seems to be right - the motors and props direction, connections, calibrations. Shows no error. Motors/props spin. But how much ever throttle I give, the drone wont take off. I dont think weig
I have been building a program to to execute remote commands on the 3dr solo and was thinking it would be simply as easy as understanding mavlink which it turns out I am way off. There is udp traffic coming from UDP 5005,5501,5580, etc ports a
So this is my first time using pixhawk and mavproxy, and I am trying to do an autonomous flight indoors. This requires me to turnoff GPS. So I have removed my GPS from my pixhawk and disabled all checks, and set the GPS use to disabled using Miss
I'm doing a little project where I want to use a Raspberry Pi 2 to run a python script that sends MAVLINK commands to the Pixhawk where it takes off, flies between a couple of waypoints and at the last waypoint it switches to using a down-fac
First - Voltage readout. Am using a 3DR pixhawk (genuine) with the 3DR power module. Testing a 4000mAh 11.1V battery I'm reading 12.61V with a digital multi-meter, and Mission Planner is showing me 12.49V 99% char