Hi All,
I finally got around to powering up my APM2 today and all initial steps seemed to go well. Driver installation, mission planner installation, firmware upload, connecting to APM2.. all were fine.
On about the fourth attempt to connect to the b
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Iv been through the search tab countless times and can seem to find anyone that succesfully interfaced the MediaTek GPS with a UNO before . So im asking Has anyone got the DIYD mediatek GPS working with UNO?
Must the Enable pin be pulled high w
Read more…Right now i'm exporting the telemetry data into the log file and looking at it through Excel. Is there a easier way to isolate variables I need? I've seen from old screenshots that there was a GUI in Mission Planner that makes it easier to view the t
Read more…This discussion thread is a follow-on to several conversations I've had with people in the forums who are particularly interested in the aerodynamics of vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Much of the dialog in these forums appropriately
Read more…What's the Signal Frequency of the ESC’s that are supplied with Arducopter quad kit ?
Thanks
Willie
Read more…Does the APM 1 & 2 do the crc checking or the apm planner? Probably sounds a stupid question but I am starting to find my way around the telemetry link as we are having lost packets issues http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/xbee-mavlink-missing-data?c
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I have an APM1 2560 with the "normal" gps on it. I also have one of these lying in a spares bin. Would there be any benefit in using this? The stock firmware does not have the I2C enabled but that is doable.
http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catal
Read more…Hi all, I had sonar ()MB1200/EZ0) altitude hold working fine with my arducopter APM1 1280 board. Just upgraded to APM2 purple board and now when I switch to alt hold the copter drops to the ground. Sonar altitude numbers look fine when I test it indo
Read more…Diagnosing my new 3DR hexa, I noticed in the CLI, it reports COMPASS INIT ERROR.
Running CLI's compass test prints out "not healthy". I also built a second APM1.x today, no issues and it too reports the same error. The 3DR magnetometer came with the
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recently fount http://www.conceptruin.com/
thought will share this beautiful video with you
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Read more…I have been struggling to get my Arducopter to set off to the first waypoint at the correct altitude and part of the problem is that I don' t know whether the various altitude values are absolute or relative to the home position. At the moment it beh
Read more…So I recently got my homebrew quad flying waypoints with Xbee, and today it decided to do something pretty weird. When I first plugged in the battery and got a link between xbees the artificial horizon was showing about 40 degrees nose up. After si
Read more…Has anyone been able to connect XRF boards so that the APM can use them instead of the xbees?
Been playing around with a couple and am not getting any connection.
Read more…I have been running a 1280 series 1 APM board and have just upgraded to a 2560 APM 1 board.
I load v2.3 of Arduplane via the Mission Planner (1.1.55) and set up the radio, compass etc.
The GPS light comes on indicating lock but only LED B lights on t
Read more…In the setup section of the mission planner, can there be a baud rate select for the serial3 telemetry port?
Otherwise you need to compile the program with the baud rate you want.
How can you change the telemetry baud rate in mission planner?
Earl
Read more…Hello Everybody,
I'm trying to understand how to install, and make Qgroundcontrol working. I am completely confused and lost when I try to follow the indications I found either here or on Qgroundcontrol website. And I do need some serious help there..
Read more…I have a 2 lb Easy Star with rudder and elevator. No aileron since the stock plane doesn't come with any.
I have a good proportional gain for the elevator servo, so it maintains good pitch attitude during Stabilize mode. However, with the pilot's hand
Read more…We try to test gps mediatek on APM 1.4 et we noticed that it doesn't work
2- We load APM soft version 2.8
1- On APM_Config.h we add a #define GPS_PROTOCOL GPS_PROTOCOL_MTK16
3-We switch to fly mode
4- We go outside to house to test GPS
5-We are waiting t
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I'd like to learn what each of the 76 selections mean.
Most of them to me are obvious, but there are ones like: Logarithmic,Ing, ax, gx, mx, magfield, wpno, press_abs, and brklevel that I haven't got a clue.
Thanks in advance
Keith
Read more…I see Arduplane 2.3 has been out for a few days, but the Wiki page has not been updated with a summary of what is included and improved from 2.28 Can someone fill us in?
Regards
James
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