Well I had my first NASTY crash, I figured there should be a thread on drone crashes to help ease the pain.
I tried the Follow Me mode on my 3DR Iris+ and it didn't go so well.
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Hey I remember reading some news about 3DR and Intel partnership which involves the Intel Edison processor to do some object tracking with the Pixhawk.
I'm wondering when will the Pixhawks start selling with Edison boards?
I have been flying my IRIS+ for about a month. I have become pretty comfortable with the controls, and very happy with it, when it obeys me.
Saturday morning I started up my IRIS+ on a football field near my house. I gave it some throttle, and it was
Read more…Hello I was a way from the Arducopter scene for a lengthty period. I still kept the Arducopter 1 with its brittle plastic landing gear and original hardware that I would want to see in the air again.
I took it out of service in 2011 after I bent one
Hi,
I've just followed the below article to show telemetry on Taranis but it doesn't work
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-frsky-telemetry/
D4R-II : firm upgraded for 8 channel cppm
Pixhawk : AP 3.2.3 , AC 3.2 ( Both tried )
Is there anyone who has
Read more…Hi, since my Mission Planner has updated to 1.3.24 the "Extended Tuning" page is showing strange and wrong values:
Rate IMAX is now 100 instead of 1000. Throttle Accel IMAX is 80 instead of 8. And my tuning range for Acro Yaw P goes now from 4500 to 9
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This weekend I flew my first Auto Mission, Yay!@@
It was a simple one and I just hovered in Stabilize and then flipped into Auto. After that worked well I attempted Auto-Tune, but it never finished as my GCS voice said "Loading RTL", and then
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Could MP's waypoint grid be made to use the full width available and not auto-size?
I have plenty of screen left over but it MP is truncating the drop-down options.
Many thanks
Crispin
Dear all,
I have a question about the polarization of the standard 3DR Radio 433 MHz antenna.
I thought that the antenna was a metal straight wire but when I removed the plastic coating I found that the antenna is a small helical. In the far field a s
Read more…So I have this Canon ELPH 300HS, I am using an arduino pro mini at 5v to trigger using the E38_APM script but with no luck. The camera sounds like it triggers and takes a shot but no picture is saved.
The pulse is 50ms high from arduino so I am not su
Read more…AutoTake Off and Land LAND_PITCH_CD no effekt.bin
After the flare point my delta wing plane goes to pitch close to stall. For that case we have the LAND_PITCH_CD which gives us the possibility to reduce the Pitch during the flare. I have tried so m
Read more…I'm sure this is something daft that I'm not doing but having written new params and refreshed the screen in extended tuning, my channel 7 & 8 options aren't showing in the extended tuning screen, please see attached? This is on an APM Mini.. I had t
Read more…I'm still very new to flying a Tarot PRO Hexacopter and APM 3.2.1 and its been fine up to now, I have about 4 hours of flying experience with out incident. I added my FPV components and was about 11 minutes into a perfect flight in Loiter mode and lo
Read more…I'm running a Pixhawk on a DJI S900 and its flight characteristics are very good in calm winds. The video coming out of the gimbal is vibration free. Anytime the wind picks up the Pixhawk holds its position well but is correcting to aggressively and
Read more…I've been digging through the posts here and some research on my own to see what's available to a radar sensor experimenter. Most of these would still need a backend baseband processor to work. However, they all also would have similar functionalit
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I use APM Planner 2.0.15 for OSX. I have this annoying issue where the menus open about 6 inches above where they should be. If I have the window positioned near the top of the screen, you do not see the options at all. For example, see the ser
Read more…I have plugged all of my servos for my ailerons, rudder, elevator, and motor into the Pixhawk's servo rails. I am trying to set up my Pixhawk system within a rather large UAV airplane, and for some reason I am not getting power to the servos when I t
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Could anyone explain about curve line below?
I Use Mission Planner 1.3.6 and ArduPlane 3.2.2 on Pixhawk. It make the flight track zig-zag in auto mission.
Thanks
Hi Gang,
I'm fairly new to UAVs but I have been doing a fair bit of research and I think I am going to go with a 3DR X8+ (I need the payload capacity it offers).
I have a few noob-ish questions related to cameras and gimbals:
Camera
I'm looking at the fo
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I got trouble with my MinimOSD.
Hope someone can help, please.
Home Distance and Home Direction are not shown on my monitor when I use the OSD. I did select them and saved them to the OSD.
Also the warning "NO GPS FIX" is showing even if the
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