One area of concern in building your own drone is inevitablie going to be magnetic field. Most people mount their compass on a mast, limiting the effect of the magnetic field on your drones performance. My question is about another way to minimize th
Read more…I have a Iris+ and I just had to replace my Pixhawk board and I am trying to get all of my settings working again.
I installed the board and updated the quad firmware to 3.3.2. I am also using Mission Planner 1.3.32 and Tower3.2.0.
Now I have a issue w
Read more…hi, does anyone know if Ardupilot supports flysky ibus protocol? I know Ardupilot supports PPM & PWM, but i'm just curious about ibus support. Thanks in advance.
Read more…I have a 600 quad with pixhawk, PX4Optical Flow and Lidar-Light and everything seems to be working in mission planner, but when i switch to alt hold, loiter, position hold the copter just spins down and basically drops out of the sky. I get no errora
Read more…I'm troubleshooting some Altitude Hold Problems that are resulting in a about 5 feet of Altitude drop while transitioning from hover to directional flight.
My vibrations are acceptable but I've noticed a high variations in the barometer and IPD EKF va
Read more…hi,
I am using mission planner 1.3.32 in windows 64bit OS, and on side of it, i want to run my application which demands mavlink messages as input.
In mission planner, on pressing Ctrl-F, we have the option of :
'mirrors the mavlink stream recieved by
Read more…I have the following problem. I'm trying to implement a filter Mahony / Madgwick used to estimate the orientation of the object.
STM32F401 processor which the accelerometer / magnetometer LIS303DLHC and gyroscope L3GD20.
My evaluation board
Read more…Our new SAR rig "failed" one of the flight tests - the "extreme double dip" terrain-follow test, as the video diary entry shows. Admittedly, it's not the normal mission profile, but it's still performing less efficiently than expected.
Is there any wa
Read more…Hi everybody,
I have bought the DJI E300 kit and the ESC comes with a coaxial cable for the power. In the kit there is already a distribution board, but the power cable are soldered, so it is not comfortable in case I want to remove something. I would
Read more…Hi,
I've experienced FailSafe of "No GCS heartbeatmany" times but what I don't understand is that Hud is still saying 93% RSSI(?) at the FS moment.
It'll be very appreciated if someone would tell me why the FS occured even with 93% RSSI?
Fyi, my plane w
Read more…We are busy posting all the STL files (more formats/docs to follow) to our new GitHub Repo
AND
We are live on Kickstarter!
I am working on a post that will chronicle all of the other open source hardware and software projects that made BoxBotix possible
Read more…Hi all,
I recently ordered some parts from 3drobotics and have a suggestion for them. Why don't you give your customers any option for standard business shipping? It is extremely painful to pay $19 in shipping on a $63 order, nearly a third of the pri
Read more…Hi all,
I recently ordered some parts from 3drobotics and have a suggestion for them. Why don't you give your customers any option for standard business shipping? It is extremely painful to pay $19 in shipping on a $63 order, nearly a third of the pri
Read more…Anyone know if this Tx radio "Hobby King 2.4Ghz 6Ch" works with this flight controller "HKPilot32 Autonomous Vehicle 32Bit" or the "Pixhawk" ?
Thank you.
LINKS:
Hobby King 2.4Ghz Tx URL (HK-T6A-M2):
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__9042__Hobby_
Read more…Just saw this drone protector on the site. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anti-collision-for-drones--2#/
It's similar to protection covers of many mini indoor quadcopters but also provide protection from hitting the ceiling, and appears to be stro
Read more…I had a PIXHAWK flyaway few months back , crashed into a tree ,no damage , However , we had no control at all. RTH and geofence and all other fail. to respond . I have the sd card ready to upload files to the site here if any one wants to figure wha
Read more…I am new to this, but despite my searching, I can't find a good description of System ID and Component ID and how these are used with MAVLINK.
How can I know what these values should be? Is there a way to figure out the appropriate sysid / compid f
Read more…I've joined this forum to gain a little more information on the choices of coverage for my Phantom 3. I live in Vancouver BC and I have been told by many other owners that getting insurance is pretty necessary. So far, these guys seem pretty decent:
Read more…I'm just installing an Arducopter v2.8 with Plane 3.4 loaded in my V-tailed Talon. Radio with standard outputs and mixing in the FC.Everything does as it's supposed to, BUT the rudder and elevator throws are huge. When I check the Mixing_Gain it says
Read more…log file attached.....running AC3.3.1 on Pix, was in loiter then guided mode just hovering at 5m for a while, all good, then sent the land command thru GCS and it just accelerated wildly to the right eventually ramming into my car and then into the g
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