A very reliable Hex fell 300 feet today... good thing I was at 400 feet because it recovered...
But I had to fight to get it back...
I am not very good at looking at these logs..
It looks like the throttle input, to the APM, went to zero for a few sec..
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Looking to have a space on DIYDrones where folks can talk about humanitarian applications of personal drones, like Euan Ramsay's recent blog post on using a quad to deliver Search & Rescue payloads:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/payloader
Read more…I am ALMOST excited further to my very first APM 2.5 + Bixler 1 mission...
My waypoints are low,but the plane keeps on climbing while going through all the waypoints... 50 meters and above... I become scared, goes back to stabilize and glide nicely, b
Read more…My Initial Factory settings:
I recently finished and assembling a QAV540G Quad with low KV high wattage motors with a 6S 5100 Battery pack. It is using TMotors 12" props. The beast weighs about 5.5 lbs.
After assembling, calibrating and setting up
Read more…Has anyone experiencing fast altitude losses (around 10-20FT) when loitering close to ground, followed by an overshoot after if it tries to go back to the original altitude?
It also sometimes just hovers very close to ground after the altitude loss ha
Read more…OK, so I finally got sick of testing my motors/esc/props on make-shift test stands. I decided to make something that will be as close to finished product as possible and hopefully, if there is any interest I could make it into an official product.
Wi
I have a RTF Hexa from 3DRobotics and I am having some problems with the display of my OSD, (see picture), there are artifacts that look like characters on the screen. Has anyone had this problem or know how to correct it?
Hi
Does anyone have a link for the build instructions for a new Skywalker X6 flying wing? I tried all the usual places Th position of the CG would be really useful, the rest of it I can work out.
Thanks
Read more…Flight mode 6 is manual , greyed out, and cannot be modified.
How can I modified it to STABILIZE or FBWA please ?
Thank you
Read more…Since upgrading to 3.1, I've had the following issue:
If my throttle trim is zero, then channel 3 is 1050 when transmitter is on with throttle stick all the way down. When my transmitter is off, then channel 3 goes to 1150.
In order to make throttle z
Read more…In flight planner, the actual number are gone in the first column of the command interface. Anyone know what this is about? I can post a screen shot later if need be.
Read more…I want to use minimOSD and the new telemetry module together but I can't figure out which cable is what (espacially Tx). Can someone help?
Thanks
Read more…Sometimes there is so much info a person can get lost, confused or just forgot where to look. It maybe "early alzheimer's". Anyway, I trying to retrieve the total distance of a flight. I tried extracting from the t-logs and looking at graphs, etc...b
Read more…How can I modify drift mode to use Alt Hold? I love this mode, but I would rather it hold altitude automatically.
Read more…I’m new to ArduPilot but have a lot of prior experience collecting, georeferencing and mosaicking UAV aerial photos using other autopilots (chiefly MicroPilot).
I note that ArduPilot has a very handy dataflash logging option (“CAMERA”) that will recor
Hi,
I have a flying wing with PixHawk "mostly" working. Sometimes it seems to have a problem with altitude when in auto mode and flying a waypoint mission. Here's what it does:
Fly RTL mode OK
Fly manual mode OK
Switch to Auto with preprogramed waypoint
Read more…Hi everybody,
I am new to pixhawk and arducopter and I have been looking for something:
I would like to control servos from my RC remote directly.
The setup is a pixhawk, spektrum satellite receiver and dx8 on a quad frame.
I have found "RC11" but seem t
Read more…I have all 4 ESC's plugged into the APM using the ESC's factory installed 3 wire connectors. Which I've come to learn means the APM is getting power and ground fed to it from each ESC. But I'm using the 3DR power module to power the APM. Should I
Read more…I have a scratch-built quad that has worked well for a while, but now I'm having a problem with vibration. Here's a video with the best illustration around 1:03:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn9CU-h9d40
I can think of at least four possibilities fo
Read more…Hello,
I'm new to Agisoft Photoscan and am trying to use it for the first time. I'm using Pixhawk on a hexacopter with a nex5 camera to get aerial images. I am able to georeference the pictures using mission planner. The camera is triggered by pixhaw
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