Hello Everyone,
I would like to share a project that I started as my Final Year Project in the year 2012/13.
The "Folding Wings" design solution was developed keeping following things in mind:
1. VTOL Capability
2. Standard operation of a multi copter (
Read more…I have just finished a TBS Style Frame with APM 2.6 and arducopter 3.0.1. Which is flying well but has a strange problem when a rotate clockwise a few times and stop quickly it will lift the back right then level out. If i rotate counter clockwise a
Read more…When will it be available and how much will it cost. I am going to be building an airplane over the holidays with a PixHawk and want to install a digital airspeed sensor in the wing.
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Decided to finally switch over from 2.9.1 to 3.0.1. I have been doing some testing on a lazy susan before taking it airborn and have 2 questions.
1. wp yaw behavior. 5 was the default and that appears to make the heli not care which way it faces. I
Read more…This discussion is a proposal towards an approach that allows an autonomous aircraft to detect sensor anomalies without duplicating sensors. I'm going to discuss this topic from the perspective of multirotors only, since it's a bit simpler, but it wo
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I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how the battery voltage and current is supposed to work. Sure, the installation is straight forward and I get numbers that change. The problem is that they are not the right numbers:
- the first probl
Read more…Does anyone know the guage of the wires for the external UBlox GPS and magnotometer? Also, what type of connectors are used?
Read more…I have several questions and issues I ran in to while tuning my plane this weekend. I'm flying a Finwing Penguin and with the stock PID's, it seemed to fly just fine but I wanted it tuned the best I could get. I had a friend fly the plane while I adj
Read more…Does anyone want to share there pids for their tbs discovery? I am having fun tuning mine and just interested to see what everyone has. I realise that every setup will be slightly different. My tbs is very backend heavy with a 4s 4000 so tends to pit
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I accidentally connected APM 2.5 USB and Power at the same time with the wrong JP1 position, now everything works, I can fly with the board but I can't connect it, via USB or 3DR Radio. It doesn't recognize the board when I connect it via USB.
Is
Read more…Thought I would put up a couple more links to some of the flights I have been doing with this excellent new version.
Ov3rquad frame
35mm sk3 motors
dji 10x3.8 props
gopro gimbal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCuqBk2KEoY&feature=share&list=UUF4xm-HaX97hmK
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What I am trying to accomplish: HWIL of a Bixler model with APM 2.6 board and Xplane on a single computer.
Issue: XPlane and APM don't communicate with each other. I can send signals through the transmitter. It is received by APM. However, XPlan
Read more…As far as I can tell, most tilt-rotors and other VTOLs with non-hover ability seem to convert fully to forward flight with little to no hover thrust. Which of course means all the caprices of transition.
It occurred to me that one might instead make
Hello All, I had an issue with my Hexa that I thought I would share with everyone in the hopes that it can benefit others.
I have all 3D Robitics and jDrones Hardware.
This is built on ArduCopter v3.0.1 Hexa with:
6x Motors AC2836-358,
Read more…Here's a strange one.
Got my TBS Disco back in the air after a couple of crashes due to a faulty ESC.
But there seems to be some strange vibes that weren't there before.
Noticable in the GoPro footage at hover, but mainly when cranking it up a bit. As y
Read more…Please post your photos and thoughts on motor test stands and ship test stands.
Read more…I've just released APM:Plane 2.76 with an important bug fix.
Please see the release announcement for details.
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Been through the documentation and can't find any info on it. Does anyone know if it's possible to control a pan/tilt system through APM 2.5 with or without stabilization while in autonomous mode?
Thanks for your help,
Jimmy
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just received a brand new APM 2.6 from Lipoly.de with a sticker which says 2.6 and the 3 DR GPS/compass.
This APM 2.6 has a working compass on the board?? How comes?
When I connect the external GPS/compass, it makes somewhat a mix out of both hea
Read more…Help! Trying to understand and update the custom code draft wiki.
Somewhere I remember something about that we use a modified Arduino. So what is the proper response every time I open Arduino and get:
"A new version of Arduino is available, would you
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