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A.M.A. meeting 2016

We want to invite this community to owr annual Rc meeting at A.M.A. (Asociacion Marplatense de Aeromodelismo),  If you are traveling for Argentine during 2-3 April visit Us. in Laguna de los Padres, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentine, you are wel

Parameter file from tuning of slow KV large spinning prop Quad

Had some trouble with a Quad setup as follows:

4x U8 135 KV

4x 29x9,5 ( 3 blade props)

4x Flame 80 ESC

With help from Leonard the new tuning produced some interesting PIDs (way off the scale) but it seems to work.

 I have attached the parameter file for a

BAD COMPASS HEALTH

im just getting my ublox neo-m8n gps and done the installation, jumper remove and recalibrate the the compass.

everything work nicely, and it also can perform alt-hold,loiter, and i also able to autotune it..

but on the mission planner, it keep showing

Fully Autonomous Quadrotor for indoor flight

I have an interest in developing a fully autonomous quadrotor robot specifically for indoor flight.

I am an engineer (what I do in my day job) with experience in robotics, computer vision, navigation/localization, and overall AI.

I was wondering what p

Programming for loiter around point; also multiple plane "cooperation"

Conect SONY RX100MII to APM2.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I connect a camera SONY DSCRX100MII to a 2.5 APM with a single cable, from the position RELAY OF APM? IS THERE ANY WAY? I tried one cable, but nothing more than I connect, dont stop to take pictures.

Does anyone know how to connect this camera to

Looking for a good motor for a GoPro gimbal

Hi everyone,

I am building an own gimbal and searching for a siutable motor.

There are a lot of options over the internet, but almost no reviews.

Could you advice a reliable motor for a 200-300g camera?

Thank you! 

SimpleBGC (alexmos) and APM

Hi all,

Aleksey has mentioned that he has an alexmos firmware update that supports MAVlink as a means of avoiding/eliminating sensor drift by leveraging flight controller attitude and GPS. 

Randy had mentioned "alexmos serial" support during the APM 3.

The FAA Registration website is hosted on Amazon

I went to the FAA website from here in Chile to register my quadcopters, because I'm coming back into the USA with some quadcopters the day after the deadline. I don't mind registering my aircraft, but it would be nice if the FAA could make a website

Logging and data values

Hello all!

Im trying to study quadrotor dynamics, control and etc. I have quadrotor with ArduCopter 3.3 and Mission Planner 1.3.33. Getting dataflash logs via MP and making MATLAB files makes me possible to study for example roll angle. So I can see n

Problem Receiving Attitude Data Over MAVLink

Hey.

First thing, I apologize for bringing up the MAVLink communication problem issue again. I am a newbie, but I have done A LOT of searching for days, and read a lot of threads on this issue. But unfortunately I'm still stuck.

I am trying to receive

How to directly interface with 3DR drones?

Hi guys,

I am part a small research group for my school and we own a few 3DR iris+'s. We would like to be able to directly talk to the drones while having complete control over all of it's hardware. We are working on some autonomous drone projects but

Visualization and delivering drone data in 3D

Hi, My name is Adam from 4DMapper, I'd like to introduce 4dmapper as an open self service platform for drone operators. It enables processed data from your drone to be shared and accessed in 3D without any software with anyone you choose. It offers o

Police lights on px4v2

when arming,

i get coupple of yellow led,short police lights and after that normal heartbeat.

Police lights

• Amber and Blue alternating at the same frequency indicates a memory allocation error to developers. Normal users should never see this pattern in

Pixhawk and neo-7M "NO GPS"

I bought a second hand Pixhawk controller and ordered a NEO-7M from RCTimer.

I had to change the 5 pin to the 6 pin plug with the ground at pin 6. When I power on the unit it gives a quick flash of he green LED on the gps and MP shows "NO GPS".

I check

What is this kind of wire called?

I am somewhat new to this hobby, and I am finishing up my first quad. I got a FY Mini 3D gimbal, and while I was installing it I pulled out one end of this connector wire. I have absolutely no clue how or where I could replace this. Anyone have sugge

pixhawk'B/E not lighted(incl beeping sound)

hi!

i have used pixhawk well with mission planner by last month.

recenlty i am trying to use Qgroundcontrol but it happened some error in pixhawk.

as you see in the attached video, when i connect the battery with pixhawk, the blue light is blinking

slowl

Topographic Survey Drone

I am looking at putting together a drone for topographic surveys, and before I buy everything I want to know if I'm heading down the right path, what mistakes I may be making, etc. This is my first build, so I'm know I'm going to make a few errors.

Re

Building a processing sketch controlled Arducopter

Hello!

Afro 20amp HV OPTO ESC not calibrating

Hello, so I just got four of these ESC's to run 3508-268 elite multistar motors. One of them will not calibrate automatically/manually or even connect to the BLHeli software program to view or reflash. It just continues to beep away waiting for input