I recently updated my 9x to er9x. Ever since doing so I am unable to arm my copter. I've run the radio calibration and it's picking up all my inputs just fine. Everything on the radio end seems to work fine with my planes, but it won't arm the copter
Read more…Is it possible to power the GPS whilst not powering the rest of the board?
I see pin 4 on the MT3329? (I think its that model? comes with the APM2.0...)
is used for backup power, can this be used to power the board in between changing batteries or befo
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I would like to know if I can run Mission Planner with signal just from GPS Emulator (from HK GCS).
I don't have yet the APM2 hardware (not other APM hardware) and I was thinking to play(learn) partially with mission with GPS Emulator signal. I
Read more…Hi, I'm still relatively new to Ardupilot, but I wanted to ask about this so I can make plans for the summer.
If you haven't seen it, the Quadshot is a quadrotor fixed wing aircraft which can take off in helicopter mode, but fly like an airplane. It
Read more…I have 6x RC Timer BC2836-9 880KV Outrunner Brushless Motors on my Y6 Arducopter.
The x mounts that are supplied with these motors are made of cheese . Please does anyone know where I can purchase decent X mounts for these motors made from "real" al
Read more…Hi, I have a doubt. The APM2 have a MPU6050 and this sensor have a DMP for fusion accelerometer gyro and external magnetometer.
My question is, Why in the source code not use the DMP of MPU6050 ? but use the traditional software DCM ? ... maybe is DMP
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I've spent the last 2 odd hours trying to get the Spektrum receiver to work with the PPM input with no luck :( I am trying to gather up bits so I can do a clear "how to" for this as it is all rather disjointed.
I've read the wiki:http://code.goo
Read more…Interesting build notes on the "Giant Pink Hexacopter" http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1644637
Props are fully protected... quite nice.
Read more…hello folks,
i would like first of all, all the people here that took some times for answer to my questions, helped me out how this arducopter works, you are all part of my loiter succeed :)
i wanted to share this video with you, cause i ve often heard
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Did anyone tried to create a link between APM2 & APM MISSION PLANNER with GSM/GPRS link
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I plan on building my own autonomous UAV from scratch. I'm using the following IMU: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10183
Right now, I have two main issues.
1) My accelerometer picks up way too much vibration noise from the motors. The raw data
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I got my APM 2 board 1 month ago and have been using it for HIL simulation and it has worked fine, I was just finishing assembling my Bixler today and was just finishing to install all the electronics when the APM2 suddenly stopped working, what I
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first of all - a general warning - always make sure you disarm your copter before getting your hands into it. -->> Also make sure to test if it really has been disarmed by e.g. pulling the throttle again up before approaching. <<--. I
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I thought a CH7 "reset home" switch may work here, but I'm having a hard time finding the parameter / place to set that up in Mission Planner. Is that still available?
I know you can do it with wireless radio via MP, but I don't have wireless
Read more…I have the APM2 with 2.5.4 loaded in my hexacopter. Sometimes when powered on the APM2 will not go through its startup routine. It happends randomly. The blue solid LED instantly comes on and the leds do not go through the sequence. Nothing else ha
Read more…O.K the problem I am having is once I have downloaded logs for use in google earth the - is missing from longtitude so instead of -0.2244xxx it reads 0.2244xxx and puts it out by about 20 miles.
Everthing is o.k in mission planner but as soon as missi
Read more…I have been using my APM1 board for a while now with APM Planner as an ArduCopter 2 mode and am now trying to get it to work as ArduPlane.
I have downloaded the firmware with in APM Planner (1.1.77 mav 0.9) with Firmware->ArduPlane 2.33.
Seems to downl
Read more…Hey,
Take off Weight (TOW) and flight endurance are inversely related attributes for most of UAV platforms.
I want to build a multi-rotor UAV platform capable of lifting 2.5kg payload (+ weigh of platform+batteries+electronics etc) and try to hover at
Read more…All,I have been doing some work with the APM, and am trying to create a simple traffic proxy so that I can send messages to the copter from APM and from another python program. I am using pymavlink to attempt to do the forwarding, but I am running in
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