We have been having great success with our SkyWalker and the APM. You guys have done an amazing job on this autopilot. We had a few stumbling blocks along the way but all in all it was a fairly painless process to get to the full autonomous stage.
We
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Problem:-
I mostly fly on my own which makes it difficult to use a laptop and change PIDs in flight so I usually land to upload a new value. If I trusted my settings more perhaps I could go ‘heads down’. My flying field is not great so frequent landi
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My APM2.0 with ArduPlane 2.68 does couple of things that I cannot believe is quite right:
Hello,
I'm using the APM 2.5 to register GPS and IMU information but my missions takes me around 1.5 hours.
Is there anyways to extend the capacity of the APM 2.5?
I was thinking about getting arduino UNO Rev. 3 with a SD shield and try to connect it to
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I'm trying to understand the radio channel assignments and what they do (or can do via configuration) in the standard code available, but information a pretty sparse over the two wikis (arducopter and ardupilot), outdated (every version of ArduCop
Read more…I don't know if APM already has this feature. It would be extremely useful for aerial filming and would simplify things.
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I've recently assembled my 3d robotics hexacopter kit, and I'm trying now to calibrate the ESCs, which are 3d robotics brand. When I plug in my Lipo, they make the musical note and beep, and the propellers jerk slightly. And then the beeping
Read more…I am powering my APM with two batteries, one for the outputs and one for the inputs. So I don't require the APM Power Module to power my board, but I would like to add V & I sensing for the the main power.
Question is, has anybody wired an ATTO sensor
Read more…In stab, where do I change the value for Max Angle of the copter...
The default is 45 deg... I want to set it 30 for pitch and roll... The copter not the camera gimble..
I have looked and looked.. The varialble name would be fine...
Thanks
Eddie Weeks
Due to some regulatory issues I am trying to reduce some telemetry stream data rates using the SR3_* parameters. I would even like to disable some steams completely. Unfortunately, there must be some hard-coded minimum limit per parameter in the Ardu
Read more…Would it be possible to build a drone that could scan for wifi hotspots using the Arduino WiFi Shield? If the R/C electronics on the drone are 2.4Ghz will that cause interference and render the WiFi shield unusable?
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I am 18 years old and currently studying first year Electrical Engineering. What I would like to know is how I can help in the development of Ardupilot? How do I get started, what do you recommend?
Just FYI I have been us
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While messing around with my MTK i found a weird initialization string in the AP_GPS_MTK_Common.h for waas.
It is currently:
#define WAAS_ON "$PSRF151,1*3F\r\n"
this string doesn't seem to be a valid command judging from the documentation.
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I am currently messing around with MTK GPS stuff and the binary protocol.
Assuming my APM2.0 GPS has the 1.6 loaded, i want to upgrade the GPS FW. Since the gps is directly mounted to the mainboard i don't know how to do it.
The APM wiki http://c
Read more…I am going to build a rover/car robot with onboard camera that is connected to my network via wifi.
Here is what I have planned;
Onboard PC (running XP on an SD based drive with usb based video capture and wifi) with a servo controller for all actio
I am dumb struck!!
I have a Bixler 1 and have been flying it for three to four months with no problems at all.
Have a bigger motor in and FPV gear on it. Last Thursday went to fly and something very strange happened. The Bixler nose-dived on its own, i
Read more…I have this battery: http://www.hobbypartz.com/98p-65c-5000-2s2p-hardcase.html
The battery cables that go to my PDB on the hexacopter have a male deans connector, but this battery seems to have bullet connectors. Can I just cut them off and solder a
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I have some UAV clients here that don't undestand english and I want to translate the APM "going to waypoint X", "altitude x" etc to my language. How can I do this?
Thanks
Read more…I was just playing with my apm 2.0 and minimOSD and everything was just working fine, then suddenly all out of nothing I stopped to get "heartbeat packet" so the minimOSD could not get messages from APM 2.0, then I tried to connect APM to mission pla
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