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
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
Read more…Hi All,
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
Read more…Hi folks,
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
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