Hi everybody,
I bought a complete DIY Drone kit August 2010 on CoolComponent.co.uk
It was supposed to be my wedding present for myself... it happens that soon my first son was born, and now that I'm waiting the second, I realize I will not have the tim
Read more…At the end of the calibration procedure it tells you to make sure your sticks are centered and your throttle is down then hit the button.
My RC3_TRIM is now set to 1005, which doesn't seem right to me. Should I leave it how it is or manually change it
Read more…Hello All,I am working on my first drone, using an E-Flite UltraStick. So far the build has been going well. I developed a system for switching between radio and arduino control. I am working on developing my PIDs. I got a decent bench test in today.
Read more…I just finished building my first tricopter and have been trying everything I can to connect to upload and configure the firmware via Mission Planner 1.1.98. It times out and gives "No Heartbeat Packet Received" error. I'm able to connect to my APM1
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I've read lost about FBW on the wiki, notably this article (https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/FlightModesFlyByWire), which describes the mode as attitude control with manual throttle.
I'm using APM 2.4 and my FBW A runs my prop at
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I have a prolem that my APM2 board is in a hidden location inside my plane and I cannot see the status leds, specially the GPS Fix led.
I was wondering if it is possible to connect an external led to one of the APM2 interfaces/outputs in order
Read more…I have just completed my implementation of of using the MAVLink XML to setup decom tables to process the MAVLink 1.0 stream. In the process of checking out the decom process I noticed that Messige ID 25 is not properly populated. Looking at the at
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I was wondering if anyone can confirm that the LabVIEW code for calculating checksums at this link is still valid for the newest form of MAVLINK:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/i-need-help-with-the-mavlink-checksum-calculation?xg_source=activ
Read more…I am trying to view flight logs and when i go into terminal it disconnects from mission planner each time. This happens before i can hit enter 3 times to put it into cli mode. everything else functions ok but not this. I must be doing something wrong
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I'm a newbie here and I don't want to bore you all with basic questions, but although I have been searching a lot in wiki and forum, I still have doubts about some APM 2 features.
1- Relative to PPM:
Reading the reviews after the PPM wiki entry
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Im currently flying the EPP FPV, and although I do have it working ok, im having some trouble tuning it, especially in loiter and turns.
Does anyone have a .pram file for this airframe? Im currently using the skywalker pram file, and have made som
Read more…I'm using arduplane 2.40 trying to get the camera tracking/stabilizing working.
It seems to randomly respond to pitch and roll movements and violently move to an extreme and then stay in the position regardless of the tilt of the aircraft.
Any suggesti
Read more…I have been having quite a few random problems with my arducopter. Mostly stemming from what ended in a pretty bad crash a couple months ago. My quad seems like it has wanted to immediately go to a 45 degree pitch at the back right motor.
I also had t
Read more…Hello All,
I am working on my first drone using a E-Flite UltraStick. I have built up my code for retrieving data from accelerometer/gyroscope, and have constructed PID loops to set the plane to the necessary attitude as determined by the GPS. However
Read more…Hi All!
I have been working on creating my first drone. I began this project by testing my own arduino based PID controller. Then I moved on to actually installing the PID and accelerometer/gyroscope into an RC glider to test for level flight (http://
Read more…The GoPro Hero 2 comes soon with wifi bacpac option. Wonder if there is any worth trying the wifi live view option to iphone via wifi (2,4 Ghz same as radio!) or will the GoPro wifi-transmitting jam the receiver for the radio?
Read more…I just upgraded this morning and now the fonts are all messed up. All the previous versions were perfect on my computer the only change was from 1.1.97 to 1.1.98.
I have a wide screen high definition display.
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Hello,
Please could someone tell me, how would an APM2 respond if the motor failed. Would the autopilot attempt to maintain the altitude and stall the aircraft, or would this be detected and the aircraft would glide to the ground?
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I have a stock Gaui 330X-S. I have calibrated the ESC and it works a treat. I will soon be removing the stock gyro and replacing it with an APM 2.0. My question is, do I have to recalibrate the ESC's once I've put the APM on?
When I calibrated them
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