My rcexplorer style tricopter with all motors on top flew perfectly with the KK2 board, but the Arducopter tricopter firmware doesn't seem to take into account that the mass of the yaw motor+prop causes the tail to initially move in opposite directio
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I'm an academic sociologist and am starting a new project exploring social and ethical aspects of non-military UAVs. I am particularly interested to find out about any interesting cases where UAVs have been or are being used by citizens to imp
Read more…Hi, today i went into a field test, and i went with a canonSX260 hacked with the CHDK script from conservations drones, and i encounter a couple o problems. First of all, my setup regarding the script parameter where the following:
-Interval (sec)= 2s
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I'm installing APM 2.0 in my plane and have the board oriented as in the picture. Which orientation should I select for AHRS_ORIENTATION? I think it should be roll 270 yaw 180, but I cannot find that option. This is my right half fuselage, I
Read more…Trying to decide which way to go w8 or android,I would like to know if somebody has an experience of running mp on a w8 tablet and compared it with the droid planner app running on an android tab.Is mp on a tablet practical ?, can I replace the netbo
Read more…Does anyone have descriptions of all the TLOG graphs? Is there a wiki page for this?
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Anyone else seen this? It's not a great pic, but I think you can see the white bars corrosponding to the same location as the minimOSD text on the screen. (though this picture makes them look much worse than they are).
No matter what I do, I c
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I was hoping someone might be able to advise on how to overcome this problem. Issue unable to connect to APM after trying to set up OSD.
I was trying to set-up comms to an OSD on the Telem port. I encountered trouble and the APM reset. After th
I can't find it, can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
Read more…I am tidying up my hex, making room for my video transmitter. I am going to put the video transmitter on the top layer of my stack. My telemetry board and antenna are on the top layer as well. To avoid crowding, I was going to mount my GPS module on
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This is about a few questions that now or later people will ask. About me, I am interested in APM series like most. I think it has done a great job so far. I myself already own a few and have worked in projects with it over the past years.
As m
Read more…Most of us are familiar with the "American style" artificial horizon - the sort where the little aeroplane picture stays still and the horizon moves around. But who's seen the "Russian style" AH, which has a stationary horizon and moveable aircraft?
B
Read more…Just got another APM 2.5 in the mail today. This one appears to have a piece of pink foam inside the case. My original APM 2.5 did not have this foam. Is this something new? Does it need to come out? If not, do I need a piece in my older APM 2.5?
Than
Read more…Many apologies if this has already been asked and remedied, I wasn't able to find anything on a search..
Just got a new Surface Pro 128 the other day and have loaded MP on it. I haven't yet connected to an APM, but wanted to review logs while on a ve
Read more…I did fly my copter on top of water (fountains in a park) and at some moment copter felt down in water (my mistake).
It was a Hero2 installed and running on the copter.
I did not have the water case for hero2, just the lens protection from LayerLens (l
Read more…Went to try out 3.0 today to see if it might help my GPS Fix issue (no satallites, no fix) but unable to load firmware through MP either manually or automatically. What is this error message telling me? Is this an issue with something I am doing or
Having completed the compassmot calibration and got my readings down to <30%, I'm still having issues with GPS hold.
I tried a couple of tests today and when switching to LOITER, the throttle on the hex just decreased to such an amount that the hex st
Read more…So, a few weeks ago, I had my quad flying beautifully, all up until I pushed the limits on the battery which ended up in an all motors off fall from the sky from about 200 ft. Needless to say the damage required an all new frame and motors and such,
Read more…I am connecting the battery as usual and the APM 2.5 is not lighting up. I got home and started disconnecting everything from it and finally it worked. I checked the DF13 6 position connector (voltage regulator) and it seems to be ok. Has anybody had
Read more…I have a little quad setup for doing tests on various flight controllers, FPV etc. Went out to try out a new FPV camera using APM 2.5+ with Ublox GPS (both from 3DR). Had been working fine (about a month old) but today when I went to fly from same
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