Is there a solution to the problem of switching from a mode like LAND or RTL (where you may have set the throttle to zero) to STABILIZE?
My reflexes are not fast enough to recover faster than above 40 feet up. Need some way to keep from colliding wit
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I just finished up assembling a hex. I am having an issue where the back two motors (4 & 6) are starting up far later than the other motors and sometimes not at all.
Even when switching motors/ ESCs, the issue continues with whichever motor/ESC
Read more…I have a dead pixhawk and 3DR says it outside warranty and wont replace it. There's a chance that I can use my credit card companys extended warranty to cover it, but I can't find the warranty information anywhere and 3DR support isn't exactly quick
Read more…With the advent of new multicopter's like the Lily (https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=65&v=4vGcH0Bk3hg) which is designed specifically for completely autonomous flight without a traditional R/C has anyone considered who's responsible for the aircraft,
Read more…I just put together a (gorgeous) Alien 560 quad last night with a Pixhawk.
This morning I decided to fly a mapping mission, and the quad performed very well, but there were a few hiccups in the mission.
Even though the entire mission was at 50m, at se
Read more…As there are a lot of experimenters and DIY people here, I have a small question...
I have been playing around with the MPU-9150 IMU from Invensense, but was a little worried about the amount of processing (and code!) that needs to run on the host CPU
Read more…Small low cost with Helium recovery storage/transport by car/tailer/small van/pickup truck
Payload-
Flight controller
Camera /TX/FPV
GPS waypoint
Videos-
Autonomous Flight LED RC Airship
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Yesterday, I went flying after a rebuild. The quad would fly great for a few minutes, then switch to RTL and attempt to land itself. (I was flying in drift mode) I switched to stabilize and was able to regain control. Once I switched back, the same t
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I am very confused by the earth to body frame conversion code when I compare it with the frame conversion matrix that I found on the pixhawk website. Could someone please help me out... I cannot believe how much time I have wasted on this... M
Read more…Looking for some insights from the group on what may be the issue, and has anyone else had an IMU flatline and the rig end up on the ground in a pile of pieces? Here are two screenshots, with IMU and pitch/roll, and IMU and speed/altitude.
This flight
Read more…Hey so I'm looking into making a mapping/land surveying application for my drones that I can use on a tablet or phone. Similar to the DJI Vision App or Mission Planner where I can connect to the drone and control simple things like waypoint navigatio
Read more…Bizzare one this.
I have triple checked all my motor orders, prop orientations, etc. And I mean triple checked. Motor test completed the clockwise loop ok. All calibrations done - accel, compass, esc end points etc.
I can arm normally, but the moment
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I could not get any answers in the other threads so may be making a new one will draw some attention.
Looking into set of parameters in the MP I see this list.
It makes one presume that it is possible to have up to 3 compasses?
Is it correct?
Can all
Read more…Hi, We were out mapping a storm water channel around an industrial facility. The last mission was the South Eastern boundary witch passed very close to the plant. On approach to the plant the copter started to deviate from the auto path. I activated
Read more…Would really love to see about 1 minute of video from the ground of a Solo hovering in loiter or position hold. Cant seem to find any footage on you tube. Would love to see how solid a Solo holds before I buy one. So one of you new owners please make
Read more…Would it be possible to program a flight controller to limit all the accelerations of a car so that all the cars would have the same ability?
Say car A can turn corners at 1.1 G
Say car B can turn corners at 1.0 G
Can I program a controller to limit bot
Read more…I put the code at https://github.com/diydrones/visual-followme on a rasberrypi which is connected to a APM ,and I start the mavproxy, do"module load droneapi.module.api",and typed "api start drone_script.py" ,and there is some error like be
Read more…Do not understand why but I was able to do 2 missions and suddenly nothing.
APM 2.6 using droidplanner 2 (even tried Tower with the same result).
I create the mission, send it to the quad, got the confirmation, then takeoff, loiter or stabilize, and a
Read more…I noticed a strange failsafe few times, whilst flying with joystick for large distances. It happens in the following way: sometimes instead of real data in log-file there are middle values written on Roll/pitch and minimum value on throttle after tha
Read more…I have a fixed wing platform with APM 2.6 and I want to install a remote shutter trigger for a canon S 100 and airspeed indicator
The directions for each seem vague to me
The airspeed indicator, pitot static I bought is a Eagle Tree
#d Robotics is out
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