I'm fabricating a new quad frame, and I want to mount an APM 2.5 on the bottom, upside down, facing forward, of course. Can this be done? Is there a setting in MP, or will it think it is upside down and FLIP-OUT? I can save some weight and less parts
Read more…This is an old issue but hoping to see if I can get an explantion or some help.
I have a Hitec Optima 7 Rx using something called the SPC port, basically the receiver has 2 power sources, 12.6V for the radio side straight from the flight battery and
Hi!
Judging from these posts:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1686498&page=27#post23859577 (Scroll to #401)
and
http://fpv-community.de/showthread.php?20672-Hobbywing-Skywalker-20A-Regler-mit-Atmel-MC (German)
The hardware has changed with
Read more…Hi guys I have just finished building a Tri for a change (custom) and have put my APM 2 on it. I connected to mission planner and updated firmware with the correct Tri firmware.I also installed the props as per the wiki so I shouldn't need to change
Read more…EDIT: I uninstalled the driver and re-installed it again. Now my APM 2.0 is connected to the Mission Planner. I'm back in business!
Hey All,
After a long hiatus with the APM 2.0 in my drawer, I decided to reflash it to Arducopter FW from Arduplane. The
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I have seen a picture in the Wiki for the 2.0 APM board showing ouputs A9 to A4 being named "Motor LEDs".
Is there any explanation what that is and how is it used ?
For example can those outputs be used to power 12Volts LED strips ? (or is it max
Read more…Can anybody tell me where to start looking if my propeller spins up when I engage Stabilize mode?
I have THR_MIN set to 0. TRIM_THROTTLE is 35, but that's not applicable to stabilize?
My radio is definitely not outputting throttle - it remains at ppm 9
Read more…So I've been building a hexacopter. Today, after 4 semi-successful flights (only small crashes) my APM2.5 suddenly can't connect to the software anymore. I've done all the normal troubleshooting (restart, trying different USB ports, disconnecting a
Read more…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
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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
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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
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