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In flight planner my Action bar is partially missing. I am using a laptop limited to a 1280x 800 display. Is there a setting to allow the width to be decreased?
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Activating a servo above WP
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I have a questions relating to servo setup and activating a servo (a camera trigger) when loitering at a point:
I’m practicing the following mission: I like to get to a WP, loiter 2 times. During this loitering I like to activate a servo (from lo
Got some flight time today! Here's the video and my log file. Maybe some help tweaking loiter ? Thanks to all who made this possible
Hi All!
I got some decent flight time this afternoon! I'm uploading the log file from my APM 2.0 controller.
I had a blast today. thanks to all who've made this platform possible. I really like it. I just ordered a Turnigy 6000ma LiPo and my landi
Read more…Yaw heading issue
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I have been flying my DIY quadcopter for about 2 months now and although it is very stable, I have a small yaw issue. For example, if I yaw clockwise the quad will yaw correctly to that point but then yaw anti-clockwise about half of it's orignal
Read more…Puffed battery
Hi,
more than one year ago I bought from HobbyKing 2 Lipos for my Copter... unfortunately due to personal problems I never get to start building the copter and never used them.
Now I was starting to look into that things again, and I was checking every
Read more…What ardware is required?
Hello, i'm new in quadcopters, so i have a few questions. I have ordered a qr ladybird to learn the basics, but i'm interested in quadcopter drone that could carry my dslr camera. I have some basics in electronics,so that is not the problem. All i ha
Read more…How can I level a Bixler using APM1?
I've got a bixler and have installed an APM1.4 with v2.40, GPS, magnetometer, xbee and everything is working great but in stable mode it climbs at like a 20 degree angle. In manual it's ok. I'm sure this is because when I did the manual level (I'm no
Read more…Need Advice for Choosing a Plane
Hi there, I'm considering ordering a plane for use with Arduplane for my lab. I was hoping some of you could suggest good planes for my lab's purposes.
The plane will be carrying about approx. 300g of payload, including the camera, gimble, and of cou
Read more…Cant get APM 2 to install drivers
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
Read more…Getting better signal with MediaTek MT3329
Hi Guys
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…Inexpensive LiDAR project
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…Fixing Yaw (particularly for Tricopters)
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…Impossible to get 1 hour flight with current technology?
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
Read more…Balancing shaft and motor
Hi there!
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…Can the next firmware release support MAX_ALTITUDE ?
MAX_ALTITUDE will come in handy. it would protect you from pilot error or if there is a communication glitch.
Read more…Baud rate is changed abruptly from 57 600 to 38 400
Dear Friends,
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…Creating waypoints in Flight Planner
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…Optical flow not working using the test sketch ( SOLVED)
I got the 3D Robotics optical flow device few weeks back. Yesterday I soldered the connecters and loaded the sketch " AP_OpticalFlow_test.pde" to an Arduino mini pro. I selected digital pin 10 to be the chip select pin (NCS).
This does not work f
autotest.py - expectations
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…Compass spins and behaves eratically
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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