Today I flew at a different site which had stronger wind than I have experienced before.
I had been flying 2.9.1 release for the last few days with out any problems. The flight today was going well I selected RTL the quad climbed to 15 meters and tu
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my problem is that minimosd works fine by itsself but when the 3dr radio fitted ,3dr radio works as it should and osd shows all characters. BUT the characters dont change all stay at zero as if the apm inform isnt going into the
Read more…Just so I could have the actual binary that gets downloaded by Mission Planner, I would like to have the Arduplane 2.6.8 Firmware - not the source. Any place to get it?
Read more…I took my antenna tracker hardware out to the field today with the goal of flying around and confirming that it would follow the airplane around.
The tracker is Maestro-based and is responding correctly to both the Pololu config program and to the tri
Read more…Lets all stick together please sign this petition..
Lets nip this in the bud before it spreads...
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I am not sure if someone has asked already this question on forum before. The APM 2.5 has accelerometer, gyros, magnetometer, barometric pressure sensors.
Apart from this I wanted to use 4 IR sensors, 1 sonar and optimal flow sensors (which
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Runs on android and there are already few GCS for android...
Read more…Having finished the camera Gimball I'm very happy with it apart from the control I've got over the servos from the APM2.0
The movements seem very coarse and slow. If I tilt the machine quickly the gimball lags behind but does go level. I've tried diff
Read more…I am trying to make airborne my quad X, but it flips always. APM2.0, quad X, 1000kv, 30A ESC.
I did re-calibrate Radio, ESC, balanced motors and props, check the CLI motors order and rotation. All those steps looks fine, but quad still flip.
I decide
Anyone who uses ArduIMU and tried to upgrade Arduino from 0022 to the current version (anything past 1.0) discovered that good old firmware that was compiling just fine in the previous versions now throws all kinds of errors. After doing a quick se
Read more…Hey all, I've been having some issues filming with my Sony CX-760 from my DJI S800. There appears to be some black bars running through the frame. I'm guessing this is electromagnetic interference. I am not powering the camera from the copter battery
Read more…I had previously purchased a current sensor from Sparkfun that was described in the Wiki for use with APM 2.0 boards. My question is, can I still use this with the APM 2.5 board and wire it up the same as the 2.0 in the Wiki?
Read more…Sadly when connecting the Video IN connector it went on the wrong pins and killed the camera's composite video out and the video input on the board.
The board still outputs video with characters, powers ok, etc, it is just video in that is not working
Read more…My APM 2.5+ won't connect on the 3DR radios or USB. For the past few days, I've noticed the HUD starting to twitch (+/-3 degrees) when the plane is sitting still. Today at the field, I had trouble getting a GPS lock (which has never happened- I have
Read more…I posted a blog on a Ball turret Gimbal design and build
It appeared in DIYDrones with only 2 of the nine photos, and the text all garbled in between!! The preview before posting it was fine .
Was this an Administrator attack??
Whats the point of posti
Read more…I am new to ArduCopter APM 2.5 and I am struggling to get it stable enough to fly. I have issues with spontaneous flipping and losing ESC calibration. What I discuss below may (or may NOT) be an issue, but at least I can reproduce the issue and meas
Read more…I'm trying to control an APM using Mavlink and a joystick.
I understand that the Mavlink message I need to send for this is RC_CHANNELS_OVERRIDE. Some of the fields in this message are obscure to me.
I notice that Mission Planner sets SystemID=255 and
Read more…Got a brand new, factory built, (and tested?) Arducopter.
I'm a seasoned RC flyer, I've set up the drone in the Mission planner, Uploaded 2.9.1 Quad firmware, Radio calibration is correct.
Couldn't get the Automatic ESC Calibration, ESC's would beep c
Read more…I'm hoping to go for a test flight tomorrow with the new 2.9.1 firmware. Before I do however, I would like to confirm a couple of things.
Having upgraded from 2.8.1 to 2.9.1, I notice that some of the PIDs are significantly different (higher) in 2.9
Read more…I think it's time for a Documentation Tab on the main menu. Do we have a Documentation team?
I'm an electronics Tech and RC hobbyist and I'm a little embarrassed to say it took me two years to build my 3D-Quad. I maid-ed it last weekend. Blogs are go
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