Hi all,
I have been working with WWZ over at CHDK forum to improve KAP_UAV.lua.
We got down to .5s interval shooting on a Canon S110 in a controlled manner... so far so good, but CHDK with Gentwire + Pixhawk has less precision than needed.
Can anybod
Read more…I designed some shirts and made them available for everyone Multirotor Pride
If you dont know about teespring, you place an order during a time frame and when it expires, they make the shirts and ship them out to you. Teespring will only make and ship
Read more…Is there any issue with putting the airspeed sensor inside the body of the plane and extended only the front portion of the tube to the outside of the plane?
It would help protect the expensive sensor from damage, but, I am not sure if the static port
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After a good short test fight, I wanted to test land / takeoff sequence. I noticed a motor (front right on my X quad) did not spin regularly. Any idea of the reason ? bad contact could be a cause ? See log below for Rcout.
Unfortunately, I crashed my decked out Multiplex Cularis:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/rc/2015-04.html#FPV-with-Multiplex-Cularis_-v2
So, I liked it because (with work) you could put a lot of stuff inside and still have a clean airframe that could hop
Read more…APM 2.5 is new, never used. Got it from a Kickstarter Project that was a POS. $50 shipped CONUS.
The Pixhawk was purchased from someone on the list. Purchased for use on a 250 build and it is just too big so I ended up going with a mini 3.1. $100
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We are flying a X8 plane with Pixhawk and are installing a parachute on it.
Instead of only having manual deployment we would like to have some fail-safe features but we could not find any information in the plane wiki.
It's already implemented but
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I'm developing a precision agriculture system to fight a maize (corn) parasite, we have done a distributor of small capsules with larvae inside. Our distributor shot one capsule each 100 sq mteres. so using survey planning, with do digicam control
Read more…Hi, Failsafes are a life saver, allows me to push my luck with distance.
However recently, actually a few months back..I had a problem.
I was low on battery heading home when I started to worry that I wasn't going to make it.
I found a clear spot to lan
Read more…I have an APM 2.6 flight controller and a 3DR GPS/Compass. I have a constant problem, not an isolated incident related to space weather. The HDOP drifts up and down between roughly 1.2 and 4. As a result, the GPS position drifts all over the place
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Having some trouble triggering my a6000 in missions, seem to be able to triiger it manually when connected through mission planner Flight Data screen by right clicking and selecting "Trigger Camera Now"
Is this fundamentally the same as the trig
Read more…I have some logs from 2 vehicles testing the battery fail safe (6s packs, set to 21.5v) with no fail safe event when going down to 21.3v I can post them if they are useful.
Read more…Hi, I had a strange flight today, I tried the logs but was not able to diagnose...
I did a first successful flight and run auto tune no problems at all, then I attached a gimbal, and moved the battery to a new position to re-balance, the flight starte
Read more…I am getting Bad Lidar Health warnings, but good sonarrange data when I attempt to test a LIDAR-Lite on my Pixhawk running MP 1.3.30 and ArduPlane V3.3.0 .
Is anyone else experiencing this problem and is there a solution?
Read more…Just carried out my first autotune on my Extended F550 (680mm motor-motor) hexacopter. Completed in just over 10mins and I must say the copter feels a lot more dialiled in now. Just got home to hook it upto MP, and to my surprise, the Stab P values a
Read more…I've been troubleshooting Altitude loss in primarily forward flight. Left or Right roll into a wind results in the same altitude loss as well as being more pronounced when flying into the wind in forward flight. Backwards flight seems to not suffer a
Read more…Since my previous thread dried up, I thought I'd do some more testing, and see if the symptoms triggers any memories and possible solutions.
Got a hex running 3.2.1, with spektrum PPM receiver. APM 2.7.2 from HK but with 3DR GPS. All calibrations done
Read more…I want to know from the experts out there would it be possible to create a WiFi data logger using Raspberry Pi (or other inexpensive embedded computer) to monitor and record charging information from an inexpensive battery charger like the X120 from
Read more…Anybody have any resources for rules/laws/regs on operating drones commercially in China?
Thanks!
Read more…Hi folks,
I have a Pixhawk connected to a 3DR telemetry radio and a Minum OSD, using the Telem 1 and 2 ports, and I now want to hook up the FrSky/Taranis telem adapter board.
Do I need a telem y cable to make this work?
What is the best way to hook up t
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