Building a ground station and was thinking of using windows 8 as the operating system .
Are there many using windows 8 with mission planner? any issues I am aware of the unsigned driver issue ,are there any other problems using windows 8 or am i bette
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ACRO bug (fixed in 2.9.1b): while doing flips in ACRO mode, if you switch to Stabilize while inverted your throttle will go to minimum. To regain throttle control you need to switch back to ACRO then back to Stabilize again (i.e. switch to stabilize
Read more…Hi guys, im having some problems with the fox tech 3 way switch
The link for the switch is the following: http://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-3-...her-p-175.html
I connected to cameras through the foxtech switch and the video fee gets clean to the video
Long story short, I'm in the field trying to gather imagery with my hexacopter and I broke one of my motors. I can't ship a new motor out before the field season ends, do you think the hexacopter will compensate and still fly with only 5 motors? Or
Read more…Hi All,
My apologies for being a bit slack in keeping up with the ArduPlane forum questions lately. If you have a look at my blog post from today you'll see what I've been up to.Now that we've got the AP_HAL code in place, the move to github done and
Read more…Is it possible to geotag images from a ip camera,as ip camera's that I know dont have exif data is it possible to use the geotagging function in mission planner to ad gps data to the ip camera images?
images are in mjpg format,Would also need to add t
Read more…Hi All,
Just about to get myself a quad setup for my APM2.5.
After browsing the forums I see a PX4 for sale.
Having never heard of it before. Is the PX4 the new best thing? Benefits of it over the APM2.5?
Any advice would be great
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I've finally got my hexacopter up and running, and I'm having trouble flying it straight up and down. When I give the copter a little throttle, it lists in one direction without me touching any of the other controls. Any suggestions?
Also, h
Read more…Hi Guys,
I need to have wireless connection to Arducopter to receive and transmit commands and video with WI-Fi router. I have an OpenWRT compatible router and need to run OSLR (Optimized Link state routing protocol) on arducopter.
1) Is this possible
Read more…I recently was reading a thread about someone wanting 60 minutes flight time on a large octocopter and other saying they wanted to power their quad with a combustion engine.
Neither of them knew how to get what they wanted then i had a great idea (i t
Read more…I have almost exclusive access to a laser cutter and so designed my own frames and tested them out
here is one of them.
If you are interested in your own fram , i can make one for £5-£10 plus material depending on its design.
Just message me
I can post w
Read more…I was hoping that someone might be able to provide me with a UBlox Binary file from a flight. I want to try to run differential processing on it using PPP to see what kind of accuracies I can get in the forward and reverse solution using GrafNav. An
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2 days ago I upgraded my APM 2.0 onboard PPM enconder with the version 2.3.15 (it seems all working ok).
It was in downloads section (ardupilot mega or arducopter repository, I'm not sure) but now it only shows version 2.3.13
Does anyone knows wh
Read more…The title says it all, this gps in in brand new condition, i was sent two by mistake an was allowed to keep it, i tested it on my multiwii pro flight controller with RTL and it worked great.
I can also flash it with any fimware you like just send me t
Read more…I have a strange issue at the moment, my quad will be set onto RTL and on the way back it will randomly spin on one axis eg: the quad rotates once around front rite and back left prop, by rotate i mean it literally rotates 360 degress, first 180 deg
Read more…Suddenly I can't connect to APM2 with the Mission Planner (v1.2.29).
It starts getting params fine but then halts with this:
I have erased and reset to no avail, what's going on??
This is the error from the MP:
Any ideas?
Hi guys, I have a couple of spare GY-80 lying around here (this is a chinese board with gyro, accel, magn and barometric sensors) and a Arduino Mega. With those I want to make my own ArduPilotMega :)
I have a computer science degree, so coding isn't a
Read more…APM is an amazing piece of hardware and software. i was very impressed to see the prcise naviagation the aircraft does. To get precise navigation and stabilization the aircraft should be very well trimmed in manual mode by making long duration flight
Read more…Hi, I am wanting to run the ARDUPLANE Board in RC plane, and use the data from that via Mavlink to show the realtime flight on X-Plane.
I can get the RC TX to control the X-Plane, but what I want is for the X-Plane to just look at the Raw data, GPS,
Read more…Hi I was wondering if it would be possible to have the forward and aft copter blades at different heights to the sides. My chasis at the front (top) blade is lower than that of the rear (bottom), think copter blade at the nose and wing of an osprey.
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