It took me 3 months to finally make it, so I would like to share all my experience and hope that would be helpful. My words are not very efficient but I'll try to write down all the important things and issues/solutions I have.
A little background. Th
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Yesterday i was out at the field checking new modem setup to send mavlink from my arduplane to my ground station after seeing it all worked great i want to add an antenna tracking capability and i have an Arduino 2560 board laying around, so i want
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I have accidentally dropped Li-Po battery of my Quad on asphalt. It fell from about half a meter height. Now I opened up a protective plastic sheet and there is a sign of a damage on one of the corners, see pics.
I am not sure if it is still safe t
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Me and a friend of mine are trying to figure out how to build a small multirotor aircraft that we can use for the robocup at our uni. We want to be the first to bring a flying robot.
The plan is to use the APM, we have used it in some projects, bot
Read more…Hello, i'm using APM 2.5 with ArduPlane 2.76 & i want to trigger a camera shutter at a certain waypoint by using DO_Digicam_Control or maybe DO_Set_Servo, but the condition is I must have one switch on my Futaba remote set to high, only then the serv
Read more…I have the 3DR hexacopter PDB. Recently my hex went down when one of my motors stopped in flight. I thought it was a failure of the ESC. Turns out, the PDB must have shorted out because I am not getting any voltage to that ESC. Power to the other ESC
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Can anyone recommend a decent hyperspectral sensor that wouldn't weight more than 2-3kg including the data capture/storage unit.
Pre sales Customer service from a couple of manufacturers is rather appalling, they must be making a fortune.
Currentl
Read more…I am about to start building a hex copter of my design it will be about 36"wLooking for advice about if the parts I am about to buy would workAll alum. ArmsMotors I am thinking will be the E-Flite 25 outrunner 870KV with 60 amp ESC15"bladesNASA with
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Today I was flying my quadcopter with arducopter 3.1.2 and APM 2.6 with Ublox GPS, vibration levels where excellent between 0.4 and -0.4 on X and Y and 0.4 -0.4 around 9.8 on Z axis, alt hold and loitter where working perfectly, so I decided to
Read more…I recently set up my bixler 1.1 and found some unusual behavior on channel 1 in LOITER Mode. Here are my details.
APM 2.5 with plane:2.78
Power Monitor
Airspeed Sensor
external compass
J1 removed / SBEC 5V/5A on the servo rail
Problem
I was doing some groun
Read more…I have been flying the x8 for about a month now. I am almost to the point of selling it on ebay and then take the money and get a different copter altogether.
But I really want this thing to work and behave like it should. So I have come here once aga
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specs:
APM 2.6 + external compass & GPS
3DR power module
Mission Planner 1.2.95 build 1.1.5150.11972
Plane 2.78b
I'm having a strange issue with my current sensor, hoping someone can help. When the plane is sitting idle, it is reporting 88 amps; her
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Before the plane came back into the Fence , dose the mode switch still working ?
If I have many field ,and i trigger the Geo-Fence channel careless on a field without Geo-Fence,what will happen? do i lose full control before the plane fly into
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Did the original 900mhz telemtetry kits that have the built in usb adapter on the ground radio get the interference or was it just the 433mhz ones that had limited range because of usb interference?
Also, do you think i can get away with 1.2
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I bought this NEO-6M based GPS module with compass but was not able to get it fixing yet.
With an FTDI adapter I could upload the confi
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I have just a simple question that's been on my mind. Or rather..I just need confirmation of my thinking.
Normal airplane servos have speeds from 0.08 seconds to 0.15 seconds per 60° of travel. So the fastest meaningful servo update rate with 0.15s
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Is there a trick getting the pixhawk to connect over USB/mavlink.
I got a new board arduplane firmware is complete but just can't get it to connect at all.
Thanks
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APM 2.5+
APM Case
uBlox LEA-6H GPS
APM Power Module
Minim OSD for APM
APM Telemetry Radio Set (UK Freq)
Assorted Cables to connect all parts
I may have a Maxbotics Sonar that I will throw in if I can find it.
Looking for £140
UK delivery payment by p
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I have a Small FPV Gimbal, if it even qualifies to that term, http://www.ebay.com/itm/270980186249?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
that is run by 2 HXT 500 servos. All Control is thru the Turnigy 9XR transmitter to the AP
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