Greetings,
I am preparing to take advantage of the MP's antenna tracking ability and I am interested in what peoples experiences are with the two common controllers, Maestro and the Ardupilot legacy board. What are the Pros and Cons for each and why d
Read more…As more RC flyers and aerial photographers are getting started in Multicopters, and some are converting to CarbonCore, I’m doing this photographic build thread to talk through how I would personnel build a Hexacopter.
Setup:
CarbonCore Hexa 950
Zenmsue
Read more…Is it possible to send assembled board with sideway connector?
And also why diydrones dont use USPS priority mail,There is lots of registered and trackable USPS mail service to send international.
Priority Mail® International Small Flat Rate Box**
Prior
Read more…I have an odd problem that just baffles me to no end.... I know this is not in the exact correct place, but I have a slight bit of pressure to get the quadcopter to tune-able conditions. I'm in a group working with autonomous vehicles as a project in
Read more…I've been working with the Auto Takeoff macro and have experienced the problem where the throttle goes to "max" as soon as AUTO mode is selected.
The documentation and other posts tell me that I should close the throttle and put the APM in AUTO mode.
Read more…How much Voltage Sag is normal?
I'm going round and round with various batteries trying to find one that doesn't sag so bad.
What I'm talking about is; in flight, it seems most batteries will get down to 10v or so, but once I land it's right back up t
Read more…Hi All,I have been looking at this site for about a year with great interest before finally pushing the button on a APM 2.5 last week. Now it's here I have a few questions before leaping in....I work in life science automation so I have a good ground
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did anyone changed the DGPS function to EGNOS instead of WAAS to get a higher GPS accuracy in Europe?
I thougt I should only change line 45 in AP_GPS_MTK16.cpp
"_port->print(WAAS_ON);"
to
"_port->print(EGNOS_ON);"
Did anyone tried it
Cheers Gregor
Read more…Hi,
today i tried to fly in the altitude hold mode resp. loiter mode.
When I activate it the Hexacopter ascends about 6-8 meters and descends to the ground.
I just installed the MB1260 XL-MaxSonar-EZL0.
When deactivating the sonar everything works fine.
I
Read more…Just my view but I feel in the Configuration page in Mission Planner for the PID config selection now in this latest version to get the the PIDs is to many click and all the drop down menus are unnecessary.
When we are doing the the PID tweaking and
Read more…Hi All,
I finally got the solution to the 'frustrating' gimbal lock that I was facing for quite some time with the use of APM board while building my camera mount for a closed loop stabilization. The problem happened on the 2-axis camera mount using P
Read more…This is my first time dealing with everbody's favorite Hong Kong battery supplier so I didn't quite end up with what I thought I would.
I bought a 4S battery and a Turnigy ACCUCELL 6 to charge it. Then I noticed you need a 12V supply so I bough a Tur
Read more…Greetings,
I've been reading through all the parameter explanations in the wiki and I have a question about the RC inputs. On the APM 2.5 board there are 8 input channels, but there are 11 RC parameters corresponding to 11 possible RC inputs. Is it po
Read more…Tried the latest (1.2.25) Mission Planner on XP 32 -bit, made sure the atmega2560.inf driver was installed (Device Manager says it is there), fired up MP and tried to connect. It shows "(COM5) Atmega2560" in the MP connect area - had the baud rate a
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I switch my battery today from 4S 3700 mAh to 3S 5000 mAh and my Hex flies poorly. I was hoping the new battery would work better. I thought my configuration file was the default with a little tuning. I had lowered the Stabilize roll and pit
Read more…I have just updated to APM 1.2.24 and at the same time changed my RATE_RLL and RATE_PIT IMAX Values.
They should always be both the same as the lock is ticked and it seems to write the parameter OK.
However if I refresh params, the one I changed to 3
Read more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWE3PVE0E9o
Turnigy 9x, with ersky9x board and voice mod.
Read more…Hi All, I just upgraded (not intentionally,.....hit enter without fully reading the text...!! just a thought here....can we have a check box under a menu for check for updates on startup?? PLEASE??!!!!) to 1.2.21, I had major connection issues wi
Read more…I did assign channel 8 from APM2 to change the tilt servo on the camera gimbal (for quad).
I want the tilt to be change using the slider (throttle) control from joystick.It works partially...
When I move the slider, I do have only 2 position changed fo
Read more…Arducopter v2.8.1 on an X8 and also a quad
Mission Planner 1.2.23 mav 1.0
I have noticed that my unused channels on the Radio Configuration screen in the Mission Planner fluctuate a lot. While channels 1-5 may fluctuate maybe 3-5 points, the unused c
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