i want to set up an airborne telemetry relay to allow me to maintain control a vehicle that is out of line of sight while doing search and rescue operations in rugged terrain. when doing a grid pattern in mountainous terrain often the searching vehi
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I've just finally finished building my heli, everything seems well set, all servo's in right position, swash moves in right direction, pre-arm safe check passed. But when I arm my heli, my esc starts to beep, which means that the "throttle stick s
Read more…Toying with a foray into hexland, and figured this was the cheapest route. I have some "used" tmotor 2216-11's and 10" props and some big 3S Lipos' lying around which I figure will do.
But I like the clean look, and would prefer to house the APM inte
Read more…Been looking around for a solid answer to a question and I can't seem to find it. I have ordered the X8 from 3D robotics and I am wondering if the 3DR OSD/FPV kit that they offer can be transmitted to a set of goggles like say a Fatshark?
Would be ni
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I had a crash, I flew my quad and tried going in to RTL, the quad flipped and crashed, when I replayed the flight in MP I saw a "GPS health" warning, just before going into RTL.
When I came home I connected the APM to the MP (using a 3DR radio), I
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I've got:
APM 2.5
3dr airspeed sensor
3.x firmware
Can't get the airspeed to zero even when pitot is covered. Tried the preflight calibration button but that had no affect. It fluctuates between 4 and 6. Any ideas how to get AS to show 0 on the fligh
Read more…I was having trouble with a QUAD i upgraded ESCs and Motors on, I figured i would erase all the old settings and start fresh. In the CLI, I hit Reset, rebooted, then erase, everything worked properly. I rebooted once more, opened the latest version o
Read more…Today i was flying my hexa just fine and after my first succesfull flight with a demostration of an auto mission i thought i give drift mode a try.
So i started a second flight to finish up my batteries.
I admint i loved the way i flied on drift mode b
Read more…I am trying to get the Ardustation3 software to compile but am getting errors in a couple of the functions. Not being a strong programmer could anyone help me please?
If I try and compile the software in the Arduino IDE it reports a lot of errors but
Read more…Normally I'm fairly OK with log analysis but I'm not sure what I'm seeing here.
Had a crash this morning where I appeared to lose radio contact with the model while in Loiter and it crashed a few seconds later.
My failsafe is setup correctly and works
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Can you please tell me, if it is normal, that in acro mode with "flybar" the swash plate is moving when I tilt the helicopter.
As far as I know, i have to use flybar if i have a helicopter with paddles - am i right?
I use AC 3.1
thanks
Read more…I am considering trying to use Arduplane to control a rudder/elevator only powered glider....I cant seem to find anyone on this forum or RCG that has done this with APM....its been done with many other autostabilizing controllers by simply using the
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(not too sure if this post is in the right category. If not, I hope a moderator can point me in the right direction).
I am building an octa V with 8 motors (turnigy 2836/8) and 30Amps ESC.
I will power this with a 3cell battery 5000mAh (I think).
T
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I'm ending my shoping (i have the F450 ARF and APM2.6 and GPS + comapss from 3DR) and wondering what mounting You use for the GPS? Is this will be good?
http://www.goodluckbuy.com/apm-ublox-neo-6m-ublox-lea-6h-high-precision-gps-protective-case-sh
Read more…First I would like to say. THANK YOU! for making this for mac. It is soooo much nicer then on a PC. But I have one big problem. See every time I fly it crashes the first time the whole computer crashed. And the second time, the computer stopped armin
Read more…Hello everyone!
Well I hope that everyone out there is as happy as I am. I am working on the team in Alaska to manage the Test site here. I am happy that the FAA is trying to get UAV's in the commercial airspace. I just think that 2015 is too far off!
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I've just upgraded to APM 3.1 on my PX4. But just like the rc4 and rc5 version I tried a month ago, the sbus signal is not reconized. I tried sbus and sbus2 receivers(R2008SB, R6208SB and R7008SB), but none of them are reconized. If I roll back to
Read more…Have just bitten the bullet and ordered a pixhawk.
I notice in the instructions is says 'APM power module-REQUIRED' and it appears to ship with one.
However I will be using it on my big octa and the 90A rated current of the power module will not be eno
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I am setting up my bixler with APM2.5 2.74 and Open LRS 1w .
I notice when looking at the HUD when I turn on TX the ground speed indicator went to
70 (this is when plane is sitting still on my living room table) whe
Read more…Hello all, I'm Leonardo from argentina. I'm implementing dcm algorithm on an lpc1769 and can't make it work.
I follow this order:
I test my gyro, obtain raw data, calculate standar deviation on each axis and note that l3g4200 is a litle noise gyro.
I in
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