I feel a bit of a noob asking this but having had my mini quad flying quite nicely I did an autotune that appears to have unlocked the roll and pitch so I locked them again and averaged out the PIDs. I then loaded 3.1.5 after reading that perhaps thi
Read more…At what k level, if any, would you consider it inadvisable to rely on gps modes? Have you ever had uhf problems during an event?
Read more…I recently purchased an Iris with the GoPro camera setup but need to ask if any others have found a comparable IR/thermal imaging) camera that can be incorporated onto the Iris instead of the GoPro?
Please respond to brhodd1@yahoo.com at your earliest
Read more…Not sure why, but my flight appears to be full of EKF errors.
Any suggestions? Appeared to fly ok...APM 2.6, Arducopter 3.2.1, 3DR quad.
Hello Folks,
So I recently purchased a Hardcase for my Iris+ and Y6, but unfortunately the case did not come with any foam included, and I have absolutely no luck finding any retailer that sells foam!
Does anyone have any idea what so ever on where a p
Read more…Hi
I am in the process of building a rover with a 6WD Dagu platform and Pixhawk.
I put it together and noticed the following:
In manual mode - driving forward or backwards is fine
In manual mode - while driving forward the steering is fine
In manual mode
Read more…I'm having trouble with one of my motors losing power, but still spinning and delivering enough thrust to fly. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
I'm using a Pixhawk on a 3DR DIY 2014 quad frame to control four 30A Red Brick ESCs from HobbyKing
Read more…Nothing against Bearospace Industries, but I am trying to figure out if I should buy the kit or not and modify where I see fit as they say on the website.
So I used Ecalc and it gives an error for max motor due to current being too high and 10 minute
Read more…I had a few emails from some people in the past who had tried my yaw vane idea and were not having too much success with it. Here is the reason why it may not have worked for you.
The yaw vane should be considered as a motor torque amplifier rather t
Read more…We're beginning a project that will require offboard software control of a Pixhawk-equipped quad (we're using an Iris+). We'll have to send pitch, roll, thrust and yaw values rather than waypoints. We plan to use pymavlink and Dronekit. In pymavli
Read more…Has anyone tried doing the pass through with a M8N gps?
I have tried but u-center is not picking up my GPS. It works with my neo-6m.
Read more…Hey all,
Seems I've fried a battery :(
I have the charger and parallel board shown below. Was planning on charging 3 batteries. Plugged in the first 2 just fine, but plugging in the 3rd got a 'poof!' One of the connectors came off the board, and the
Read more…Hi,
is it a good or a bad idea to use Autotune when EKF is enabled? Or does this not have anything to do with each other?
Thanks,
Pcace
Read more…I just noticed this at the Chinese on-line retailer, ThanksBuyer.com
They are pricing the bundled versions attractively. Obviously made to compete against the APM micro 3.1
If anyo
Read more…Hi everybody,
I don't know, if this should better be published at the github page, but as I don't have an account there at the moment and do want to share my idea now, I'll publish it here ;)
For in flight tuning it is often essential to change two par
Read more…Hi Michael,
1) could you please correct in the 'Heli Setup' screen:
'Mode 1 Setpoint' should read 'Setpoint' or 'Mode 2 Setpoint'
The input for the 'Swash Travel Bottom' is limited to values smaller than the minimum. It should be allowed to enter values
Read more…Hello everybody
I'm new to aerial photography and I'm planning an aquisition system for the agency I work for.
We are aiming at environmental monitoring (asbestos) with hyperspectral image aquisition.
The system I found is a OCI TM-UAV-1000 and it's a P
Hello Community,
Since I'm new to all this stuff, probably got a dummy question.
Does one single antenna can act for data link and tracking? Or I should buy two separate antenna, was looking for long ranges antennas can somebody advise.
Thanks for the i
Read more…Here's a quick mission planning question.
So I have a fixed wing aircraft and I'd like to plan a mission in which the aircraft climbs to a target altitude and then performs a servo action. From testing, I found that if I set one waypoint at 30m and t
