Having a problem with my new APM 2 board. I have installed mission planner as per instructions and that went fine. I then plug in my APM 2 vie a usb cable and it says cant find driver,so i manually look for the driver in the device manager browser wi
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Been browsing around the net a lot.
Do you think this antenna will work with the MT GPS
http://shop.trenz-electronic.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=105_109&products_id=649
http://www.sarantel.com/products/sl1300
As soon as I switch on the RC
Read more…http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1108292587/99-lidar-project
Hi everyone. I started a new project. Would like some input in what do you want to see in an inexpensive LiDAR.
Read more…I'm opening this up to try and get all the discussion about yaw problems into one place so that it's not scattered. I'm working very hard to fix the yaw control because it seems to be the #1 complaint about the general flight characteristics current
Read more…I've been reading about Micro Drones claim of 1 hour flight and I have been pouring over some numbers trying to figure out if this is possible with LiPo batteries. My answer is simply no.
I've look at different batteries and different motors. Typical
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There are many descriptions and movies showing how to balance a propeller but I haven't found any clue on how to balance motor and attached shaft. I bought 4 EMP motors and it's extremely hard to attach the shaft to maintain the axis. Take a
Read more…MAX_ALTITUDE will come in handy. it would protect you from pilot error or if there is a communication glitch.
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I have a question about ardupilot telemetry baud rate. By default, the baud rate is 57600 and I used it several times in my easystar. After I move the ardupilot system into Maja and the current come from regulator, I can't connect the sy
Read more…I have a weird question - is there a trick for creating waypoints in the Flight Planner with a mouse click? Sometimes it works for me and sometimes it doesn't'. When it doesn't, I need to quit the application and restart it, then it sometimes works.
Read more…I've just started using Tools/autotest.py, and it takes a very long time to run--about 40 minutes. Is this expected?
It looks like a lot of the time is spent waiting for the simulated arducopter to descend. E.g. I see a starting altitude of 350 m an
Read more…My compass has just started to spin in Mission Planner, and provide erratic readings, however if I go into CLI and run the compass test, it says that its holding its heading perfectly. I can't fly with the compass doing this, as it messes with the ya
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My team has been working to set up a 3DR 915MHz telemetry kit for APM 2.0 with APM Planner 1.1.193 mav 1.0
We tested our 3DR using 3DR Radio Config. In addition to the telemetry being displayed in Radio Config, the green lights are both solid,
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When I started Mission Planner today I was notified an update was available.I updated and now every time I start Mission Planner there's an update available.
Is something wrong with update check ?
Hi,
I have a 450mm frame, with motors,reciever,apm 2.0, power distribution board, esc, props and prop mounts, and 2200ma LiPo it weighs 996g. I will be buying a 5000ma Lipo once I get the copter flying well, and then even more weight.. camera and
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I've read the instructions, installed the software and can compile it (make) without any error messages.
But when I issue make install I get these:
LD obj/hm_trp/bootloader.hm_trp/bootloader.hm_trp.hex
SIZECHECK obj/hm_trp/bootloader.hm_trp
I've come across an issue lately where my minimosd stopped working after a firmware upgrade, and i'm beginning to think that the root cause of the issue is that my telemetry rx and tx pins on the oilpan are broken. There's no voltage if I measure bet
Read more…Here is the conundrum:
A) 2 bateries 3000 mAh in parallel, powering the four engines.
B) 2 bateries 3000 mAh, each powering two engines.
C) 1 battery 6000 mAh, powering the four engines.
Also, if bateries are in parallel, how is the voltage monitoring af
Read more…Hi, can anyone give me some guidance regarding my project? i have a x-cell gasser heli 700mm, all the info that i have found on the forums/google etc. all point to a flybarless electric heli which doesnt have throttle controls, where as i require a t
Howdy All!
My name is Barrett Ames and I'm a partner at Thorpe Seeop (www.seeop.com), we design and manufacture UAVs, for military and commercial use.
I think that you guys might be interested in 3 airframes that we offer (I've attached pictures of t
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