Hi,
Any ideas how I managed to plan a mission with 5 WP & 1 RTL commands which resulted in my hex ending back above home at 250m?
Switched from Stab to Auto when hex was at 10m elevation.
See screen print of APMLogVisualizer graph & MP Flight Plan.
Under flight planner, when we mouse over a location the Lat/Long reading will be shown at the RHS mouse location column. But for my note book the altitude reading remain 0 regardless where I point the mouse. In another desk top computer with the same
Read more…Is it possible to set the directory to be used to save logs? I have a small HDD in my netbook and the main partition is pretty full.
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I am setting up a new instillation of the Arduplane and trying to configure failsafe short.
I have set up and observed the channel 3 behaviour in the failsafe screen.
I have ‘taught’ the RX that the throttle can go to about 980ms and when I turn the
Read more…Hello guys, I'm another newbie to UAVs (and electronics to an extent). I was wondering, is it possible to power the quadcopter and all its parts such as motors via the APM2's usb port? I'm planning to attach a battery later on however it would be con
Read more…I have been gathering the parts for a UAV for a research project for a while, and I received my unassembled APM 2.0 with built-in MediaTek GPS kit in July, right before the APM 2.5 came out (it came with the parts for the voltage protection). Coincid
Read more…Here is a guide for setting up 6 flight modes on 1 channel of a JR XG8 eight channel DMSS RC transmitter. This is achieved while only using one of the active channel inputs (the Flap/Aux1 channel) & the Mixing switch (2 position). The result is the G
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I´ve recently updated my laptop to windows8 and dowloaded the APM planner 1.2.17 (ZIP versión since the .msi will not install) and it runs but when I try to connect the telemetry (Xbee) the process starts and then stops at the following screen:Aft
Hi All,
I finally got my Hexcopter back into the air this morning. After weather delays, overheating ESC, problems with 3DR Telemetry, mounting a gimbal and being stuck in NYC for a week (yuk).
The first flight went fine, I flew for about 9 minutes.
Read more…Im a senior at Virginia Tech in Aerospace Engineering, ive been looking to get involved in the UAV industry professionally but it seems like applying for jobs is limited to the big name companies. Do any of yall know of smaller companies that would
Read more…Q: will it fly? fly well?
I'm prototyping my latest design - got my motor mounts put together. Other than the plate in the middle, this is the only thing that isn't out-of-the-box... but could be made very simply if they prove to be robust enough:
Am
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I finally got a separate 12V battery and powered my OSD and fixed my 3DR telemetry cable setup, but when I try to talk to OSD I get a "Failed to talk to bootloader" I have solid red light on the OSD and my 3DR telemetry works fine. If I try t
Read more…Hello Everybody,
A friend of mine started a ROV project and asked me for help with the "brain" of the ROV.
This ROV will be controlled using 2 joysticks and an Arduino UNO board at the surface.
It will have a GUI displayed on a LCD screen, and we would
Read more…After more than two hundred flights with my APM2 equipped quad, today, in the remotest of possible locations my quad failed to respond and attempted to fly away by itself! All I can say is thank goodness for Knobthorn trees.
I wanted to get some video
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I upgraded to Mission Planner 1.2.17. Much improved load time on the new version, thanks. But now my 3DR Radio will not connect. I can load settings and even upgrade firmware works, yet when I click connect button I get a connection failed mes
Read more…What is the status of OF_LOITER mode in the latest ArduCopter release (2.8.1)? Is it supposed to work, or is it still a work in progress?
Read more…The 450 X comes with a rx that has gyros integrated into the rx. Will I need to replace this with a standard 8 ch rx and set it up as aero in my transmitter.
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I've got a Bixler 2 sitting at home waiting to be built with the plan to drop in my APM 2.0. As a modification to the Bixler, I was thinking about using some Strong Rare-Earth Button Magnets to hold the wings together rather than use the suppl
Read more…I crashed my quad today, and I was wondering if what happened was normal. I was flying my quad in stabilize, and I was flying it pretty fast. As I pulled back on the stick to stop it, I found that it wasn't responding to my commands. It kept increasi
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