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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I need to switch a camera (HackHD) on/off through mavlink. Therefor I thought about using the PCF9574 I2C IO expander like this one:
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I am fairly new to the ArduCopter and RC flying in general. I have about 50 flights behind me and most have gone really well. Today, I crashed twice as a result of my quad ascending very rapidly even though I was using moderate control inputs--i
Read more…I've got me usb cable hooked straight into pixhawk (V3.2.1) and keep getting an "error receiving log list". I'm stuck. I tried downloading over telemerty, no luck either.
Has anyone seen or know what is going on?
Thx,
Wes
Read more…Dear all,
I am very much interested to make composite UAVs. I tried many ways for making it like foam core, wooden patterns, prepreg etc. And I am here to have a discussion on making the plug and material selection for rugged design for deep-stall lan
Read more…I am a newbie to all of this stuff. Can someone please explain to me what a Power Distribution Board is? And also what is the difference between a Power Distribution Board and a Battery Eliminator Circuit?
Read more…I am new to the whole drone thing, however I have been flying a quad for over a year, and RC planes since probably around 2002. I am looking to do a kit build with my son, I have been flying a small quad for a while and want to build something bigger
Read more…When I first power up my control board & connect to Mission Planner, the altitude reading is extremely high - often up around 500 to 600 meters, though the model is sitting right here on my desk. Within about a minute the altitude reading adjusts dow
Read more…I thought my 2nd build would be easier than my first - but it's been nothing but problems. Chipping away at them one at a time.
The latest issue is that my quad just dropped to the ground when I put it in Loiter mode. Here's a log of that flight...201
Read more…I've noticed that as long as MavLink aware apps are pretty terrific in functionality, sometimes there is total absence of ergonomics.
It would be good to collect suggestions in one place.
If I might make suggestion:
Standard and advanced params menu u
Read more…On my Y6 with KDE 2814XF-515 motors and HW X-Rotor 40a ESC, Pixhawk, it seems like I have to re-calibrate the ESC's over time. Recently the motors were shaking pretty badly which was obvious when slow motion showed motor #5 definitely spinning odd an
Read more…Hello everyone,I know that large, heavy lift quadcopter might be a nitch in this community but I see that there are several here building these.From all that I have read and experienced when building them with low kv, large motors there are some prob
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Today I flew my plane twice.
At first, I used the flight mode Auto and end of the mission Loiter I left it in about twenty minutes. Suddenly he turned and left the circle, tangent, direct to crash with mountain. I could retrieve it and land it
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