Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question or if what I am asking seems a little silly.
I have a firefly6 tiltrotor airframe which came with modified MP software. I would like to switch to standard mission planner as I have been using
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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
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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
Read more…I have done a mapping mission, and I had to stop halfway to swap batteries.
This has caused me errors in the pic set when trying to geo reference them as I have two logs to run one batch of photos.
Is there a way to determine how many pics were taken i
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I am having trouble with my copter a few days ago, when I tried to test the failsafe feature of the copter.
I am using 4S 5200mah batter for my copter and my failsafe setting is battery voltage at 14V and RTL should be triggered when it
Read more…I'm running 30a Simonk firmware ESCs on a quad with genuine 3DR Pixhawk.
When I run ESC calibration (all at once) I run through the process in the ardupilot documentation.
When the throttle is up, I wait, but hear no tones at all. I'll wait for a good
Read more…Hello guys,
We newly released a 18x gimbal camera for multicopter task,like inspection,surveillance and mornitoring.
Features:
1)Only 1100 grams.
2)3 Axis gyro-stabilization
3)18X optical zoom
4)AV Signal,720p/60 video output
5)1080p/30 video streaming
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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
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I am building an FPV plane at the moment and want to do crop scouting with it. So I want to use telemtry to upload waypoints and edit the mission etc.
I installed the recent ArduPlane fw (V3.5.2) and calibrated the mandatory hardware. I bou
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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
Read more…These are accuracy questions really.
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
Anyhelp? It is a mapping mission and I need to find how many pictures were taken.
Cheers,
Sandy
We have been developing a small, easy to install device to provide cellular telemetry to any Pixhawk based drone.
http://zcopters.com/airstring/
We will be launching the kickstarter campaign this week.
What do you think?
Read more…I have acquired a lawmate PV-800 Dvr . It's great but! yes there has to be a but!.I would love to build it into a ground station but! The IR remote control will while giving full control does not seem to turn it ON only OFF. I have noticed a control
Read more…We have been developing a small, easy to install device to provide cellular telemetry to any Pixhawk based drone.
http://zcopters.com/airstring/
We will be launching the kickstarter campaign this week.
I personally think cellular telemetry is way better
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Can someone please tell me if snapdragon flight controller has PWM outputs for the ESC's. If not, how can I connect ESC's to the snapdragon flight controller.
Thanks in advance.
Read more…How do range finders handle trees? I have processed a lot of data from manned aircraft with laser altimeters and these often record first and last returns (reflections). The first reflection is of course the tree canopy, and the last is the ground.
Ha
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the quad copter fall down with high speed perpendicularly on pix-hawk autopilot controller, and when i revised the log i saw that the throttle (RCOUT) increased to maximum on channel number 2 as you see in figure attached and bin file, please can
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Thanks!
Nelson
Read more…I have split the GPS signal wire from the GPS to the pixhawk to feed the pixhawk GPS port and an external custom sensor.
I am about to split it again to support the arkbird antenna tracker air module that requires the GPS signal also.
Does anyone antic
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