I have been trying to set up my new wing with an Ardupilot running Arduplane 2.73.
There is this new 'ELEVON_OUTPUT' that actually works fairly well for setup, but I cannot get enough throw out of the servos. I tried to drive the signals furthers with
My company, Overwatch, provides insruance for Unmanned Systems in the USA and Canada and globally. The challenge providing good risk financing (insurance) to any operation is to understand the risks associated and then to reduce these risks into mea
Read more…Running a quad with APM 2.5.... I've always noticed some left/right drift that seems to occur during flight - not consistently though. It is good after an autotune, but I start having to compensate with some left or right stick at times during the
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Every time I run an update on the mission planner it crashes (this only happens on the new version).
I retrieves all the files and when the command prompt window runs it crashes. Please see screen shot below.
And when I load ArduCopter 3.01 on
Read more…The APM dev team is delighted to announce the release of APM:Plane 2.74, a major new release with a lot of new features. This release is recommended for anyone flying fixed wing aircraft with an APM2 or PX4.
There are a lot of changes in this release,
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today in good weather I could see the version 3.0 testen.ist very accuratly.
Create WP/ WP Auto Circle with ROI does not work.
ROI in the center of the circle. the copter is always looking to the next WP. I have checked all the possible settings i
Hi - I have a 3DR quad running 3.0.1 and I have been working on reducing vibration to a reasonable level. My current setup has the APM 2.5 on the top tier of the stack with 2 layers of moon gel under each corner of the APM and I have a rubber band li
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I have been flying my newly scratch build Y6 for the past couple of weeks and everything was going better than planned. I have been playing with props and tuning and also figuring out my new brushless gimbal.
Today I went out for some last te
Read more…What would be a middle of the road antennal upgrade for the 915 mhz 3D robotics telemetry? I ordered a 21 cm [ larger ] pole antenna for the plane. If I got this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ramsey-LPY9-Logi-Log-Periodic-PCB-Antenna-915-MHz-/360283780191?
Read more…Another beginner question from me...
I built a 3D quad 2.5 in the "+" configuration around Xmas time and am just now trying to get it up into the air. I just re-ran my motor test and I am confused about what to do.
The description says that it begins
Hi community.
I have a hexa with a gimbal system running off of the 2.5apm. Got the gimbal from hobby kings. Its pretty good. Have some nifty and fairly quick servos running the gimbal too. Its not perfect though. Can anyone give me some advice or sug
Read more…This is the thread where I document my attempts for this round of T3. Gary mentioned that documentation would be important, so I decided to make this thread to document my entire process. My goal is that anyone who reads through this, once it is fi
Read more…Can any of you look if there are some marking on any of those components (the ones in the red rectangle)?
I had a crash and they are missing:
It would be great to have pre-saved missions that could be assigned/saved to a mission slot with a single button to activate, i.e. the MP Flight Plan tab thus would have maybe 5 nameable mission buttons under which you could pre-save a mission in eac
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This is my first post, i haven't bought anything yet.
i'm a little confused as to what controls the machine. at the moment my understanding is that the software uploads my flight plan to the hardware.. and then it requires no external control to c
Read more…I can't get this to work.
I've set up elevon_output, and verified that the two elevon servos are moving correctly. I've added two more servos for the alternate pair of control surfaces, and attached them to output channels 5 and 6. I've set their rc
Read more…I ordered this system and received it today. Super easy installation, but couldn't get me camera to work. I also have a GoPro adapter cable, so I tried it and the video worked. After some troubleshooting, it seems the cable in the kit had the 5V and
Read more…Looking into getting a Sony NEX5 camera. I would like to have control over the zoom feature. Has anyone played around with a controller that can do this over a link? Maybe even have a 3 axis controller with zoom capabilities.
Read more…I pressed the update button in Mission Planner when it said and update was available. Now MP will not load. I get an box that says FATAL Program, along with a bunch of stuff I don't understand. Any help is appreciated!
Read more…I have come to use my XBEEs for the first time and having an issue connecting to mission planner.
The XBEEs have been set up for 57600 baud and I can see data coming in of the receiver when using X-CTU but it throws up an error in mission planner when
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