Was out at the hobby store to see what i'm sure everyone has heard of before, the gaui 500x and it doesn't look that bad. But I do have a few quick questions before I bite the pricey bullet. A. are there any other almost ready to fly kits that pac
Read more…I had to cut the transparent heat shrink tubing on my ESCs (HobbyKing 30A BlueSeries) to reprogram them with SimonK firmware. Everything went fine, but now I'm looking for a solution to replace the original heat shrink tubing that was over the ESCs.
Read more…The following topic is to discuss how we can use our drones for the good of other people. ideas rang from fighting crime, search and rescue, ect... any ideas or topics can be started here.
Read more…I have been trying to get the autoland feature working for a couple of weeks now to no avail? The first time I made a flight plan with several waypoints and then a final LAND command where the plane would reach and then stall, on the second attempt I
Read more…Need Some Help Here, I Have A Neo-6m And It Is Misbehaving, Everyday I Have To Connect It Directly To My Pc Untill It Gets A Lock, If I Do Not Do This, I Will Not Get a Gps Lock ?
My theory Is The Gps Has No Internal Clock So Come Midnight It Cannot
Read more…Hello! I need to use UART 2 for telemetry on APM 2.5 so that I can use both USB(multiplexed with UART0) and Xbee telemetry(hopefully on UART 2). I have followed the directions given on the google code page, and this is what I have done.
-Cut the two u
Read more…Hello, i have a quadcopter with the arducopter 2.5installed, i have had two crashes so far, both occured because of signal failure.
Has someone made a software tool yet to set the ardumega to RTL on signal failure?
i would greatly appreciate the help a
Read more…Does the APM code include a possibility to add additional temperature sensors to the system? It would be nice to have live temp readings from ESC, motor, battery and so on.
Perhaps LM35 sensor could be used:
The LM35 is a precision temperature sensor,
Read more…I have been trying to get 2.9 to build so I can beta test and I cannot get it to compile. I have followed the Wiki and other instructions, but when I try to build I get a huge list of errors - most of which appear to be around variable declarations.
Read more…Hi,
I'm looking for someone that can make a nice composite airframe, like the penguin-B but not so complex of course. I made a 3D rendering of the Mugin and a nice composite version of this airframe would be enough for me. Its for an UAV in my country
Read more…Hi!
In Mission Planner, one can load do "Tlog > kml or Graph", then if you go to "Graph Log", there will be a bunch of variables to choose from after selecting a particular Tlog. If I chose roll, then the Mavlink Log Graph will update with the relevan
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Read more…Hello
i would like to know if it's possible to assigned channel 7 instead of channel 5 set as default to select flight mode.
my 3positions switch is on channel 7 that's the reason why i asked this
thank a lot
fred
Putting together the new quad using an APM 2.5 and mostly it seems to be working, but the compass consistently reads about 60 degrees off in the Mission Planner display. If I alignit to the north, the readout MP shows Northwest. I have the dec set co
Read more…Hi,I have just recovered an older GPS module from my Bixler prior to an APM2.5 upgrade. The GPS still works and locks so I am thinking - a spare GPS, why not?The GPS is based on a discrete Sirf GPS2e LP-7450 chipset, which I think defaults to 9600 ba
Read more…Hi I'd like to use the APM1 to log the tilting in the x and y axis of a moving vehicle (not the arducopter). I'd like to do this without attaching a receiver to it and not use the transmitter radio as well. However, I will be connecting the GPS, but
Read more…I am interested in buying and Cinestar 2 Axis Gimbal.
Does anybody have experience in using this gimbal with APM2 or APM2.5?
Without using the Radian Stabilization modules?
Greetings,
Hein
Read more…This is more a question to Tridge, but could be interesting to many of us.
How to integrate the APM code tree in the PX4 one and modify it, in order to compile, download and run APM on PX4 board?
I already have the PX4 IDE and tools running. Compile, d
Read more…Hello! I am new to building and flying drones, and I need some help.
I want to be able to fly a plane using the APM 2.5, but get a real-time video feed while i'm doing it (preferably into a pair of goggles). I don't really understand what I need to bu
Hi all,
I have a Skywalker X8 that I've been building for aerial photography (wildlife population management), and I'm having an issue with a way to trigger the cameras. The two cameras I have onboard the plane at a time can be triggered with a servo,
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