I have been doing mapping missions with APM and Pixhawk for a while. I often want to map areas that are too large to cover in one flight (as I am sure do many people). I end up planning multiple missions and eyeballing the overlap between each missio
Read more…3DR charged me Sales Tax even though I order from Canada. As distributor and UAV integrator, I have been ordering from 3DR for years now, and I started to get charged HST on the last three orders. Since the goods ship from US, I also paid duties and
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I am curious to know how RTH works in the APM Rover system? Specifically, if RTH is engaged does the rover try to drive directly back to 'Home'? Or does it return by reversing its original course up to that point in time?
It seems that
Read more…In an attempt to troubleshoot why I can't get my motors to spool-up, I first confirmed that on my good flying quad platform with Pixhawk, connected to Mission Planner, and with the radio receiver physically disconnected from the Pixhawk, I can run th
Read more…I need a simple user interface for our Pixhawk based fixed wing UAV.
We need to allow farmers and non UAV oriented people to safely fly our NVDI payload and hope the Raven GCS will do just that.
Is this the case if so when will it be rolled out?
In an attempt to troubleshoot why I can't get my motors to spool-up, I first confirmed that on my good flying quad platform with Pixhawk, connected to Mission Planner, and with the radio receiver physically disconnected from the Pixhawk, I can run th
Read more…Has anyone flown live power transmission wires? I have a potential job doing just that. The wires are energized at 138k volts. I was told that there is risk of interference from these lines affecting the control of the drone, does anyone know the "ru
Read more…Hello! I am a developer and interested in Obstacle avoidance. Could someone direct me to a group or individual working in this field? Is anyone working with LIDAR, optical sensors, and the like for obstacle avoidance and path planning? I’d like t
Read more…Winter Barnburner Drone Racing Series presented by ReadyMadeRC Registration Opens!
The weather has been stellar, and many pilots have been able to make use of the extended fall to get some stick-time in... meanwhile the FPV Racing Events Team has been
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I have successfully used Pixhawk on my plane with auto mode in missions(via MP).
Now I decided to try it on nitro or gas helicopters but I still cant figure out how to use it with external governor (for example futaba 701 or another one
Hi,
I would like to make some changes of the flight mode altitude control (ALTCTL). My software is Qgroundcontrol and I use a Pixhawk. In the Qgroundcontrol library under QT Creator, what the names of the files relative to the flight modes?
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I am new to ardupilot and have written a payload drop code for my UAV but i m unable to integrate it with the existing firmware. Can someone tell me the procedure for the same....
AG
Read more…I am new to ardupilot and have written a payload drop code for my UAV but i m unable to integrate it with the existing firmware. Can someone tell me the procedure for the same....
AG
Read more…I'm using this on a cinetank quad and normally fly in stable mode with FPV. Never have a problem or reason to use RTL but thought I would give it a try today. What I found out is it doesn't hold it's altitude. So I switched to stable to gain control
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I'm looking to add other sensors on my futur Arduplane, I tried to find anything about this in the documentation , but without success.
My idea is to add an air temperature sensor on my plane, do you have any docs about that ? or maybe someone
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This is a discussion for the 1MB flash limit issue so that we can consolidate any discussions and concerns about it in one place.
To give some background, all Pixhawk (and compatible) boards use STMicroelectronics's STM32F427 as their main CPU. This
Read more…Hello, Drone Brain Trust
A good friend of mine (Vern), that works for "Servo", and "Nuts and Volts" mags, just got back from a business trip to China, where he won a DJI knock off as a door prize at a dinner event.
He didn't even bother to open it ther
Read more…Hi there. I'm from a community of people who have started an opensource project to capture the artwork of an abandoned warehouse. However, we're not sure what to do with the data now that we have it as we were hoping to view it within the unity engin
Read more…I know this sounds like a ridiculous question to ask but we really need to know how to turn off ALL the failsafes for 3DR drones. I understand the need for them when they are outside with people but we have a cage built for them and we need the fails
Read more…I have
THR_MAX 80
TRIM_THROTTLE 30 (don't need to waste power to loiter or just cruise around)
ARSPD_FBW_MIN 14
STICK_MIXING 1
My problem is if I'm downwind, I want RTL to apply more power to come back when ground speed is very low.
Right now, I believe R
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