3 year old 3DR Y6 kit with APM2.6, two crashes in that time, but cannot seem to get it back to stable. I noticed that in terminal mode, after connect, it displays "ublox" then garbage keeps being displayed. Not sure if the GPS/Compass took the brun
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I have G-3D Gimbal controller from walkera and I want to attach it with pixhawk ( actually its chines pixhawk called pixhack ) but it's similar to pixhawk .
I tried to connect the wires from the gimbal to pixhawk put when I power the gimba
Read more…Hi everyone,
i want to open PX4 firmware and compile by Qt Creator on Windows OS, but the developer link
http://dev.px4.io/starting-building.html show the following message:
Windows has not been tested with Qt creator yet.
now ,i us
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1 hr Endurance, 3-5 amp battery, 400g payload, camera gimbal, FPV, Low vibration, crash survivable,
Helium recovery and storage after each day of use.
Welcome to the LED - Long Endurance Dronehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPtHGWouNQ
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I am trying to set up the Eachine Racer 250 with a FS Th9X transmitter using a FrSky D4R-II 4 channel receiver. This is the setup that I use for my 3DR Iris+ and I would like to be able to use the same transmitter for both.
Is this combination possi
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I have been working on MonoPhan thrust vectoring EDF drones for a while now. I will posting my work on this technology here.
Below is the test video of my new nano unit with a nano FPV cam on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=echU1LLIjkg&
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I'm trying to figure out what made my drone runaway (extremely fast) when in one of the "automatic"-modes (RTL and auto).
Video:
Mission:
Actual flight:
Story:
I had the whole quad working just fine
Read more…I had my taranis to set the flight mode channel to RTL as it's failsafe. I did not set the APM failsafe, I should have tested this, but it does not work and I'm not sure I understand why.
Testing on the bench, If I center all sticks and flip my RTL sw
Read more…Most rx/tx go bidirectional these days. Some even send telemetry in proprietary formats, like frsky. The setup I'd love, though, is a single Rx module for radio and telemetry and on the ground, the laptop connected to the Tx. Via usb or serial or BT.
Read more…I am as beginner as it gets.
I ordered this:
The one I got looks like this:
I attempted to follow this for setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv4
Read more…Some people believe the dangers imposed by UAVs are a little over-exaggerated. For those reasons and more, we've put together a 5-minute survey on sUAS/drone regulations in the U.S.
We're planning to use the results when we (UAV Coach) speak with poli
Read more…I have problems tuning my TECS.
When my plane in AUTO mode and a lower altitude is requested (going over to a new lower waypoint) you see and hear clearly that the trottle is reduced too much, the plane drops fast in altitude, and the is corrected by
Read more…I have been using Mission Planner for 2-3 years without problem. Recently, after downloading data flash log via Mavlink and reviewing the log, I clicked the Auto Analysis button m and got the following error message :--
Th
Read more…I just moved my Pix from a y6 to a tricopter on the latest 3.3 release.
Yaw on the y6 was snappy, and control input was stellar- my throttle response felt instantaneous.
Input is SBUS on RC port on a FrSky x8r from an X9D Plus TX.
Moving to the tricopt
Read more…I'm to figure out if it is possible to make battery charge a condition of a mission.
I'm wanting to build an automated docking / charging station that allows a UAV to repeat a mission indefinitely.
Process would be...
Hey DIYers,
What could you do with a GPS device that is accuracy to the centimeter level? And do you know what is the positioning precision of our L1/L1L2 RTK GPS boards? It depends on solution type. For standard positioning service, its positioning p
Read more…I am about to try to troubleshoot a motor failure on my hex and was wondering if anyone with more experience can give me a possible point as to where to start looking.
It happened twice, first time it failed, it was at least brought down in one piec
Hello guys,
I have a few stuff for sale. Please check out things listed below and let me know if you have any questions.
1). Turnigy Plush - 30A ESCs - 10 pcs - $12/each
2). Turnigy Programming Card - 1 pc - $7
3). XL-MaxSonar - EZ/AE Ultrasonic Range M
Read more…About the release time of ArduPlane 3.5 I noticed that the Preflight Reboot Shutdown started to work. I also noticed that the Preflight Calibration no longer works. It had a nice "command received" message when it calibrated.
I've tried everything I
Read more…I recently connected my A
PM
2.5 to my PC and Mission Planner.However when I tried to connect Mavlink it timed out and gave me the error "no heartbeat packet found"
Any idea what this is about?
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