Hey everyone I'm new to building drones and I got the arducopter 3dr with full electronics and I got the Taranis X8R + Pixhawk with GPS+compass , and I'm stuck on what to do next. I want to test the motors (without the propellers on). Then I'm going
Read more…Seems like the majority of gimbal mounts come standard in GoPro Hero 3 size. I'm rather risk averse in plunking down that much money for the camera, since as a rather new flyer I'm likely to lose it to crash or other disaster. Anyone know of a GoPro
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I'm having a major problem with my 3DR APM 2.5 unit. It has been working fine for the last year+ until the last weeks where the unit keeps resetting itself completely wiping out any calibration or other params I may have already done.
This is ext
I hate to create another of these threads, but I've plowed through the collected wisdom and am stumped.
I have a new pair of model 1 915mhz radios -- I haven't worked with these before. The ground side plugged into USB fine, green light flashes once a
Read more…I transferred my APM 2.5.2 from one of my quads to a foam wing I built. Want to do some waypoint guided photography stuff. Flashed the APM with ArduPlane 3.0.3 and everything went fine. I had initially set the wing up without the APM to get it dialed
Read more…I've been test flying my multiplex cularis with a lot of weight, so it tends to stall around 25kph in level flight (I only have GPS speed for now, but I had this happen in multiple directions, compensating for wind. Arduplane does display airspeed, b
Read more…I maiden my skywalker, trimmed out and flew in stabilize mode last weekend. Everything was fine. No crash, perfect landing.
Now today I powered up my plane and i am getting a RED LED SOLID and a weird tone.
I have looked through documentations. No info
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It there a way to dump/export the following data into a csv format from the dataflash log?
Lat, Long, Alt, Date, Time(HH:MM:SS:SS)
It seems there is a way to plot a flight on the map after the fact, and looking for access to that data.
TIA
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I have two Mission Planner with two ground station transmitter for two UAV in one PC running.
During flight it is sometimes not easy to differentiate between both aircraft when switching the Mission Planners.
Is ist possible to give eac
Read more…I was doing an autotune after an upgrade from apm 2.6 to pixhawk running 3.1.5.
I think it might be power related (battery).
I have attached the log if it is possible to get some feedback.
Thanks
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I pose the question to anyone willing to chip in..what is the biggest factor in extending flight times for a quad? Best/largest battery, decent motors/props, cheap escs? Good battery and Best motors? Best of all?
One of the places I fly I see occ
Read more…hi guys i have made a tbs discovery clone but with the f330 scale. all carbon fiber looks great.
the problem is when i move forward in stabilize mode end stop it gain altitude.
other problem it wobbles a little sometimes.
setup. tbs f330 scale frame, 12
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I have recently installed MAVProxy and played with it a little. Upon running I get the following:
Failed to load module: No module named wp
... (and some other modules, rally,fence and terrain) but read in a post here that its because I did not insta
Read more…I have been trying to connect with the pixhawk using MAVproxy in order to control quadrotor through CLI.
But I am facing problems in connecting to the pixhawk using MAVproxy.
As son as I try to connect, the pixhawk doesnt revert any details (appears as
Read more…I have tried the WINRC 450 TB frame and its nice. But I need a really nice way to mount APM on a 450 heli. Can't seem to find the kits that let you mount APM under the heli. Cheers.
Read more…I spun up my new 700L Dominator the other day and found out i cannot Arm the copter with my Tx. I was able to arm it via the computer. I double checked all my controls and all are moving in the correct direction. I am sure I am missing something. (U
Read more…Hey everyone. In the past I've built a couple quads and hexes from 3DR using APM2.5. I recently bought the RTF X8. I didn't choose to include radio and receiver but instead to use the DX8 I already have. The X8 came in, I did the minimal assembly req
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After looking at the code for 3.2RC4 its still quite unclear what the proper prop direction is to use the V-tail config for the V-tail style multirotors.
The code specifies,
// front right: 70 degrees right of roll axis, 20 degrees up of pitch ax
Read more…Hi to the developers.
I want to share some experience of using the APM Plane system. There are some things I don't like.
Incorrect End Point working of the elevons in the STAB mode and I presume in the other modes too
Video №2 shows.
I have setted up the
Hi everyone,
I am working on a few projects that use the APM 2.6 and am in need of any schematics and components list if available. If anyone has links to what im looking for it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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