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Read more…Hi! I'm working on a DIY drone start-up, and would greatly appreciate any feedback to help us better the product! Please consider taking the following survey: https://forms.gle/3G5ytrWsQ4vFrGrx9
Read more…Hello!
I have been studying how exactly a tricopter works and I came across a problem that is not quite clear to me...
I understand that the tail rotor has to be slightly tilted for a specific angle alpha in order for the horizontal component Fx to cou
Step 1: Choosing your quadcopter frame sizes:
There are many different size frame, the most popular is 180mm-250mm(180mm frame means the diagonal axis distance is 180mm), they are also used for FPV racing quadcopter; more bigger one is from 280 mm to
Read more…I recently suggested in this thread:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/need-uav-built-for-under-10k
that Ardupilot would be a low cost way to make a commercial/military UAV.
I haven't used ardupilot in autonomous mode yet, but I've been very impressed w
Hello all.
I’m in the simultaneously enviable and unenviable position of suddenly having an unexpected $6000 to spend on drone-related equipment in the next month in order to start a drone program at the school where I teach. I’m an almost complete no
Read more…I am a high school student interested in drones and autopilots. I hope to be able to write some code and learn about the design of drones and autopilots. I would like to know how important math, and more specifically calculus, is in this field? Could
Read more…Hi all,
I have recently started writing a series of blog posts that detail how I have chosen to program my own IMU complimentary filter. I have done this for my own entertainment and as a learning opportunity. Hopefully others will find this inter
Read more…So I bought a crashed Solo because it came with lots of extras I can use as spares for my Solo. I have an old 3DR y6 kit, I'd like to use the Solo controller with the Y6. What can I swap over from the crashed solo and retain use of the Solo controlle
Read more…Hi there everyone. Referring to the last column (load type) of the table below, showing a specifications table of a DYS Samguk series WEI 2207 (2300kV) brushless motor, I am confused with the letters X3 and X4 written alongside battery/prop. What do
Read more…Hello everyone.
My name is Alex, I'm from Austria and I hope to get my outcast 6s BLX tomorrow.
Now I read everywhere that it is better not to bring batteries 2 x 3S.
Instead of the golden bat and company on Amazon...
Either I'm too stupid or I just don'
Read more…Hi,My name is Elisa Serafinelli. I work as a Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK). I am currently working on a research project titled Drones in Visual Culture: Developing a New Theory of Visual Mobile Communication funded by AHRC rese
Read more…Dear community,
I have a very heavy single-rotor heli (MTOW ~ 25 kg / 55 lb) with a PixHawk currently loaded with ArduCopter 3.2.1, but that I tentatively plan on updating to the latest stable 3.3.x release.
It currently flies well in Stabilize, but di
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