My hex copter just upgrade to 3.2 -dev from v3.12 rc2,I use sbus receiver, but failsafe don’t work, then I use PPM encoder instead of Sbus, work great( same receiver with same failsafe setup), is there anyone has same problem?
Read more…When using the power module with the APM, what is the minimum recommended C rating of a Lipo battery?
Read more…I found this accidentally while messing around with the Mission Planner.
I thought that my baro was well covered but it appears it's not.
Open MP, connect to your APM via telemetry or USB and then navigate to the Config/Tuning tab and click on Planner,
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I'm writing to report a very likely bug affecting at least firmwares 3.1 rc8 to 3.1.2 (), at least for hex X frames. The bug manifests when RTL is the last step of an AUTO mission and RTL return altitude is different from the current altitud
Read more…I decided I need to put longer wires on the 3DR power module. So I figure no big deal, I'll just unsolder the wires it has on it, and solder my new ones on to whatever length I want. Easy, this will take about 10 minutes total including heat shrink.
Read more…I notice the APM is (I think) estimating wind speed and direction. I can display wind speed and direction on Mission Planner and in minimOSD. I can't find anything documenting this. How is it coming to this conclusion?
Read more…Maybe I'm blind and don't have enough caffeine yet. Nowhere on the 3DR site, the ardupilot manual pages, or DIYdrones wiki pages, does it say how to connect the minimOSD to a PC. All it says is "connect to the computer and use the configuration tool
Read more…I have a Turnigy 9xr with Frsky DR8-ii plus receiver. I have tested all flight modes and they are all workng great. When I did the final radio failsafe test. My hexa copter and crashed landed. Two arms broken. Can somebody check my logs and give me i
Read more…UK multi rotor pilots needed the week of April 9-13, 2014. This is a general call for a project in the London area and we are looking for 5-10 pilots to fly multi rotors. A couple of requirements include:
* Ability to 3D fly a quadcopter in a safe an
Read more…Hi All,
I am struggling to find any concise information on ArduStation, but bits and pieces I can find suggest it is a pretty handy bit of kit that I might consider exploring...
My main intent it to create a SIMPLE antenna tracker. Simple because it in
Read more…Wonder if Ali Express are really selling what they're advertising? I've bought other uav products from them before without issue, but this seems too good to be true. I guess they could be knocking off the FLIR core, but at a 1/10 the price?
Read more…Hello,
I'm trying to choose a motor to build a long(ish)-endurance quadcopter. I will be using the RCTimer x650 frame to lift a go-pro and small brushless gimbal. I want to use 2x 4000mah 4s packs for a total of 8000mah 4s
I want to use ~16 inch propel
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Recently I started working with APM and mavlink. I'm trying to get attitude and acceleration data from APM via USB. So far I was able to receive RPY data correctly but I can't seem to be able to get correct readings from accelerometer. Rele
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Read more…I've set up my APM 2.6 with the receiver that comes with the Flysky TH-9x. To make things simple I'm doing everything using the wizard found under "initial setup" tab of Mission Planner. I've gotten to the point where I'm supposed to set up the radio
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I just implemented an idea I had a while back to improve the Arducopter stability control. It's basically using the stabilized acro idea and comes from noticing that my acro leveling code was faster at returning the copter to level than the
Read more…I will shortly be ordering the 3dr video kit. It includes a 3s Lipo fo the air and the ground. Obviously the ground one requires it, but I will probably wire it into my Turnigy 9xr directly. However, for the air I'm wondering why I need a separate
Read more…Here's a bit of a brain teaser. How would you go about calibrating a 3-axis magnetometer in a vehicle that's too big and heavy to be manipulated by hand? The brute force method would be to build a big rig to lift the vehicle off the ground with thr
Read more…Hi, I am using two camera (Day and Night) payload in my plane but I have only one video transmitter which can communicate to video RX connected to Ground station (GCS). Now I want to send one of the video signal to video tx one at a time. To do that
Read more…Hello All,Does anyone know of a way to have the APM measure motor rpm and report it back via telemetry to mission planner?Thanks,Ted
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