Amused by the fact copters can fly themselves, occasionally I've found myself putting it into loiter, and manually budging the copter around by hand just to see how responsive it actually is. In general it seems quite good, however I feel yaw is a li
Read more…I have a strange situation with the APM 2.5 logs since a week ago. The log number was 32 and suddenly, after a download and delete, it jumped to 33031. Also, the logs collected after this strange jump, are all 4096 Kb, apparently with the same data b
Read more…I've tried alt_hold on a quad w apm 2.5 w firmware 2.9.1
As I switch to alt_hold the quad shoots upwards
Do I have to change something?
What is the cause?
(there was no sonar on the quad)
(the gps is an UBLOX)
Read more…Had a bad crash today flying in FBWA, with a plane that has logged 100+ flights without any issues. Only change was upgrade to 2.76. Was flying level at full throttle, and the plane just took a nose dive straight down. I have never seen any behavior
Read more…There is a app FPV IN MAC APP store so it asked that it can connect ip camera .So i want to ask that can it connect smart phone camera (samsung or apple)
Read more…Hi Guys,
I have seen my Artificial Horizon start rotating 360 degrees in roll without the aircraft moving. I have also seen the INS level change inflight causing the aircraft to start rolling left and pitching down.
I have included a short Tlog of it s
Read more…Hi,My rc plane components including (modem, tx, rx, camera, batteries, sensors etc) weights about 1kg. I have selected predator 74in rc plane from hobbyking.com, for my new rc plane project.I m not sure, is this airframe good for such weight?? Kindly
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Just got a new installation finished on a 1880 skywallker and for some reason when moving the ailerons the rudder moves in opposite direction so when rolling right i get left rudder and roling left gives right rudder ... it is a Futaba 9CHP with o
Read more…I had been running a serial BT adapter for telemetry to my APM that I had from my Mulitwii days...I had a crash and killed it....bought another 4 pin HC-06 style serial BT module to replace it (exactly like all the other $5-$10 ebay modules)...but c
Read more…Arducopter has disapeared ,anybody having the same problem , all links get server no data sent.
Read more…I've compiled and uploaded firmware versus v1.2.9 on apm2.5 but I've not added #define GPS_PROTOCOL GPS_PROTOCOL_UBLOX in apm_conf.h so in my opinion it uses the default protocol MTK (as defined).
But in terminal it says ublox OK:so it seems to accept
Read more…I just wanted to point it out that we would like to move any Arducopter support discussions to the new forum which has been set up here:
http://ardupilot.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=66&sid=29f301715996f1f025315023275e54e0
I much prefer the way the forum
Read more…I got this for my ORIGINAL Ardupilot, now known as "Legacy", but never got it all together. I have the controller, and two sensors, plus cabling. $35.00 shipped in the lower 48 US. Still have original box and directions
PM me for pics or more detai
Read more…I ordered the 3dr video kit, I am having alot of issues with the video. I can get it to play thru the video kit onto my Mission Planner. I noticed the OSD board gets hot. When I try to connect thru my fat shark googles( as recommended by the instruct
Read more…Hello, a friend of mine strated to understand a try to use ARDUCOPTER for traditional Helicopter.
He explain that it isn't possible to change the MAX value for servo TRAVEL for Collective and Cyclic.
I attach the pictures
first : the start value for MAX
Read more…OK, THIS IS A RANT!!
I am done with Arducopter! I have been trying to get this platform to be reliable for way too long.
I don't even want to add up all the damage, time and money I have wasted trying to get this flight
control system to work as adverti
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After the last update from Missionplaner I can't get it started anymore. Here is the error log:
2014-01-07 13:52:08,753 INFO Program - ******************* Logging Configured ******************* (c:\Users\hog\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Ard
Read more…Hello everyone,
I do not write much posts here. I am just happy to read posts of others here. There is an interesting article about technology and employment relation. We can be all happy that diydrones comunity is technology domain creating jobs when
Read more…Today I was reading about "ABSOLUTE ALTITUDE" in mission planner. This got me thinking.....mission planner is able to get elevation data from google and guide the drone to maintain altitude relative to the real ground altitude. All this is done via t
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