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Can we get a drone at rent?
When it comes to renting a drone, the cost can vary depending on several factors:
- Drone Rental Cost Depends on the Drone Model
- Longer Drone Rental Duration May Get You a Discount
- Depending on Your Location
- Drone Rental Insurance
Drone Motor Maintenance Tips What Every User Needs To Know
As a crucial component of multi-rotor drones, the motor system has strict reuiqrements on horizontal accuracy. Even minor installation errors or loose parts can affect flight stability. Therefore, regular pre-flight calibration is essential to ensur
Read more…Upteko's solution for offshore windmills
Upteko's Drones Revolutionize Windmill Inspections
In an era where renewable energy is paramount, Upteko has positioned itself at the forefront of innovation within the wind energy sector. Through strategic collaborations with leading service technolo
Read more…UAV for photogrammetry / surveys
Hi Everyone
Im putting together a UAV for aerial surveying using stereo photogrammetry.
Id like to get some input for the experts before going ahead.
My plan is to buy a high wing trainer coupled with an APM2.
Electric powered with a gyro camera mount.
Th
Read more…PIXHAWK FW3.5.2 + Canon S100 CHDK Mapping Troubleshooting UPDATED
After a failed attempt to do some mapping which resulted in most of the pictures NOT being taken, and the ones that were taken being very blurry, I went through my 3DR EAI S100 Lua script and found a lot of the settings had been changed. It has proba
Read more…Do any all-in-one drone 3D scanning systems exist on the market?
Hello fellow drone enthausiasts,
I build and work with drones, specifically for photogrammetry applications.
What has got me scratching my head for the longest time, is that is seems that all solutions I can find on the market have the drone (either li
Read more…World's Largest 3D Printer
Greetings,
We would like to inform you that our company recently launched large-scale 3D printing services through Indiegogo, which can be used to order custom designed drone parts. We have developed the large-scale 3D printing platform and correspond
Read more…Building with arduino along with possibly a pi, and communicating with sbus.
Ok, so this will be my first arduino and raspberry pi build of a drone, although I am actually trying to figure out the best way to do this and I'm planning to start with a fixed wing first. I picked upma decent motor and esc and i have all the servo
Read more…can a quadcopter survive a defect motor or motorcontroller ?
Hello,
I have been always active in fixed wing.
One of my friends asked me to look in, the chances a quadcopter can survive a defect engine, or motor controller ?
The Frame should carry a 5kg sensor package, so, we are talking about a pretty heavy machi
Hexacopter keeps rolling over on takeoff. Details in body
We are trying to get a Hexacopter (Tarot X6 frame) with a Pixhawk Cube Orange+, Arducopter v4.5.1, Castle Creations DMR 30/40 ESCs and Tarot 5008 KV:340 motors, 18in CF props, in flight condition.
The only thing that is non-standard, is we have a 2 ½
Read more…Risky drone flying
One of the most important rules before we flying is kp index drone
f you’ve flown drones during a high Kp-index reading and noticed even the slightest difference in GPS accuracy then please be aware.
To calculate their position above the Earth, drones
Read more…Learning Simulation with Pixhawk
Hello,
I have got a Pixhawk Flight controller board. All I am looking further is to use simulation with Pixhawk. I no nothing about Gazebo or any other simulation.
I want to learn simulation with Pixhawk. Can anyone help me out with where to start from
Bad Gyro Health in Pixhawk 2.1
Hi
I am building new copter based on pixhawk 2.1 and here+ gps. It will be quite big octo but for now it’s quad with 15" propellers. I have mission planner 1.3.52 and copter firmware 3.5.5. When I am connected to mission planner from time to time I g
Control surfaces for Pixracer
Hi,
If this is the wrong place to put this please redirect me to the proper board. My issue is trying to configure the control surfaces from the pixracer to the mission planner software (Qgroundcontrol). The servos are being hooked up to channels 1 a
Read more…What company manufactures this winged hybrid VTOL drone?
Does anyone know the manufacturer of this drone?
I'd appreciate weblinks to the company.
Thanks for your help.
madflight v1.1.1 released
A new and improved version of the hands-on Arduino DIY flight controller for ESP32 / RP2040 / STM32 is available.
madflight is now an Arduino library and can be installed directly from the library section in the Arduino IDE.
Read more…uBlox problem
Hello friends Diy Drones,I got a new GPS Kit Ublox and did the installation but the ArduStation stopped working.I made the necessary changes in line 1-7 to uBlox as follows:/ / 1-7# define GPS_PROTOCOL 2 / / 0 = NMEA, SIRF = 1, 2 = uBlox, Choose prot
Read more…Rookie Mistake Upon Landing - Did I Damage My Motors?
I took my Tarot 650 Sport quad out for a test flight today. It seemed to fly okay though yaw control is very quick and I need some practice holding the same altitude. After a minute or so of flying I switched flight modes to RTL. The aircraft flew to
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