It's so hard to find a proper category on this forum...
Anyway, I've gone through a wiki page about GIT and still have some questions. I'm very familiar with SVN but have no experience with GIT. Time to fix that.
I've installed GIT, some GUI (SmartGit)
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I want to ask expert advise on a long endurance (about 40 minutes) heavy lifter (1550gm camera) multi-rotor platform.
Can you speculate or advise me what would be the good starting point of building a multi-rotor (quadrotor, or hexacopter or octa
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I'm doing the maiden flights of my new Y6 but I don't know why extrange reason propellers brake in the air.
I know that are cheap propellers with low quality:
http://unmannedtechshop.co.uk/Multi-Rotor/Propellers/10-inch-propellers/Quadcopter-pro
Read more…When I power up my APM 2.5 board (via USB port) with no peripherals connected everything is fine. When I add the 3DR Radio the board still powers up correctly using the USB port. When I connect the Ublox LEA-6H board and then add power via USB, the
Read more…Hello, I want to take infrared aerial photography using a UAV. Does anyone have any advice about what sort of camera/lens I should buy in order to do this?
Read more…Good day gents and ladies,
I have been a silent reader for quite some time, and enjoy participating in this sport/ hobby/career/ what-have-you for years.
My latest build is a Hexacopter utilizing the Xaircraft frame and APM 1. I have the sonar, GPS, ma
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I understand that since the release of Arduplane 2.33, one may:
"ask for any stream rate that is a multiple of 20ms"
Does that mean that I may request all the telemetry data(attitudes, raw sensor, PWN in and PWM out, airspeed etc) to be stream
Read more…Has anyone tried one of these 6 position switches yet? Seems perfect for a mode switch.
I can't tell if it's plain old contacts inside, or if there's fancy electronics.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Components:_Switches_and_knobs/Fr
Read more…Some time ago I posted (probably in a wrong category) info about my issues with reading logs in APM2.
I decided to record how it works here as it's totally random and erratic.
At 0:07 terminal seemed to work which surprised m
Read more…I have found discussions in the forums about XBee radios, 9x receivers and er9x firmware, but none on 3DR radios. Has anyone combined the er9x on the Turnigy transmitter with 3DR radio to acquire telemetry data? Is there a tutorial to follow? I h
Read more…I've just released ArduPlane 2.61, which has a lot of small bug fixes from 2.60.
Changes since the 2.60 release include:
Hello
Can anyone tell me why this is happening when I only pull throttle. This started happing when I updated the quad to 2.7.1 and my remote to er9x firmware. I took this quad appart so many times to check connections that people think I have ADD. O
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Obviously I am a newbie and I am into my first built and I don't have room for a power distribution board on my frame. I have been pouring over the docs about connecting the ESC signal wires to the APM. In the instructions they allow for a power d
Read more…I just noticed that I seem to have lost the antenna on my airborne Xbee! Must have gotten torn off somehow. It's just the simple little white wire antenna. Can I just replace it with another piece of wire? What length?
Read more…In a crash a few weeks ago the diode on the mag fitted to the AMP 1 board got damaged and to the point it ripped off some PCB traces so I cant solder it back on. I have ordered a new one but though in the mean time it still might work. , I see there
Read more…How can you be sure about the Mavlink version that APM is using. Can u read it out from some parameter? If I upload Ardupilot code with APM Planner (MavLINK v1.0 ersion) is the APM code then automatically sending data in ML1.0?
Read more…Hi guys, I have a customer with strange level issue on APM 2.5... RMA or there is a fix for this?
He purchased two Arducopter kits . One flies flawlessly but there is a problem with the other.
I need your help to see what you can find in the logs...
Read more…Hi everyone,
I have had my octorotor flying using the 2.7 version of the code and everything is going well.
I would now like to change the reference frame of the vehicle so that it is valid on a global frame. This means that regardless of the vehicle a
Read more…Starting a new thread to show what I'm working on. I'm building a new Octocopter of my own design. The goal is to use it for Aerial Photography, lifting a mid-weight camera such as a Sony Nex5. It will of course be using Arducopter for control. ;
Read more…Just wondering. Forking a conversation off from the 2.7.3 announcement.
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