Hey Guys,
I'm working on a new project, I call it the rotowing (still working on the name...).
In essence, it's a wing airframe with a VTOL via quad rotor. The back props rotate to provide lift during take off, and forward thrust during flight.
Anywa
Not too sure this is the correct forum. If not please direct me.
My plane is a Skywalker X8. I'm still in early flight stage. I'm thinking I don't have enough deflection to keep the plane in level flight in say.. FBWA Mode.
My question: Is there a Para
Hey gang,
Looking for a little guidance here. One of our fliers burned out his APM board and I'm attempting a repair. All the info I have right now is that he connected the battery as well as USB at the same time...I'm waiting on confirmation to hea
Read more…Can I just plus Sbus in like PPM and it will work? That’s the way it is on my pixhawk.
If not will future firmware updates have this feature?
I am converting everything to Sbus using Futaba Telemetry Receivers that work with my new 14SG radio.
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Apologies if this has been asked before.
I am trying to setup a new pixhawk via Mission Planner 1.2.97 . I have a FrSky Taranis radio with the 8XR receiver and followed an online video to setup the flight modes.
The radio signal is recognised and cal
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I have to manage the APM (get the telemetry and send commands) through USB. I have a receiver embedded, with my protocol, and I need to translate to the APM.
Is there a description, an API, a documentation I can use to implement the APM protoco
Read more…I have built a thrust stand for my vehicle and to use it the craft is mounted upside down for reasons too complicated to explain here. It seems one of the recent upgrades to mission planner includes a feature to "disarm" in the event of a crash (or
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I decided to build a 450 size quad as a first build while I wait for the snow to melt!. I am an experienced RC (and fixed wing UAV) flyer but have never built a quad before. I nkow APM very well.
Which is the most stable configuration for the Quad?
Read more…Here is another project for Mavlink telemetry support. This time conversion from Mav to DuplexEx
I am going to cooperate on this with author but we are not sure how much pilots uses Duplex & Mavlink capable board. Should we publish this project ?
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I can not solve this: I have a grey screen for video.
Please keep in mind, this setup WAS WORKING. I had video but no OSD, so I started to mess with it, now I have only OSD and grey background (see pic).
I have a minimOSD v1.1 board.
I have tried ALL
Read more…I 'm sorry if this has been posted before, I couldn't find another reference to it on the site.
Is this the most exciting breakthrough in our lifetimes or have I missed something? It looks like the people at ARCAA have cracked the most horrible sensi
Read more…I am building a dynamic full vehicle thrust stand and need to be able to set the throttles to specific levels for calibration purposes. Is there a way using the mission planner and a joystick as my control device to make the engines run at specific
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I'm trying to see if I can make my payloader and my gimballed searchlight work on a phantom. Unfortunately, I've never flown or owned one, so need to buy/borrow the bottom part of the shell so I can see what the mounting options are.
Does an
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I had a small crash this morning while testing some video shoots with my Y6.
APM2.6 ublox GPS with external mag, Rctimer HP4108-380kv top props 13x5,5 bottom 15x6,5 + 40A rctimer ESC.
frame type 10.
4.5 kg with 5 S 5800 and Nex7 with gimbal hover curr
Read more…Hi I'm trying to find out the amp draw for my hexacopter to find out if i can put a 40 amp voltage telemetry monitor in my hexacopter
Here is my setup:
550 frame
3d Robotics 880kv motors
10x4.7 props
3d Robotics 20 amp esc's
5000 mah 3 cell battery with 30
Read more…Hello everyone, I have just tried to flash the simonk firmware onto my esc's and got this error log in the screen shot below.
We have the right firmware, and even tried older versions getting the same code.
we even tried taking the usbasp off the esc
An African inventor has successfully invented an improvement in propellers for airplanes, helicopter, multiple rotor crafts (drones) and marine vessels.
The propeller designs makes less swishing noise than conventional models when in motion. It can al
Read more…HiI was curious if I can use my radio's expo and/or dual rate to fly my quadcopter.I want it to fly a bit more smoothly on the sticks e.g. indoor flight or for video recording. In other words less sensitive on the sticks.I'm not sure if expo and dual
Read more…Is there a solution for me to add autopilot to my blade 350qx?
Most of the components are proprietary so has anyone else brighter or more resourceful than me figured out a fix?
Please help.
This post is not much to find an solution but also to give a solution for those facing the same issue.
When trying to update the firmware of my quadcopter to v3.1.2 I could not get it working with Mission Planner (v1.2.97 build 1.1.5167.24804). It eit
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