Hello all,
after many days and days of trying everything to get magnetometer working a success at last, my problem was magnetometer was 45 degrees out when i went to do calibration it came back with a figure to manually insert, which i could never fin
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A couple of weeks ago I got bit by the bug to build a quadcopter from scratch. I am purchasing the motors, ESC, battery, propellors, ect..., but I am designing and building the frame from raw materials. I am programming the control system
Read more…I want to be able to us my USB Joystick as a Gimbal controller.
Plan:
Use a Logitech USB joystick connected to my GSC Computer. Use the Mission planner to program it to move the pan and tilt of the gimbal via my xBee Pro telemetry link. I do not want
Read more…dafault (100) - seems like a very high value for a plane.
up to 100 degrees turn per meter away from track ?
Read more…I was wondering if there was a simple built in way of streaming the GPS data of the plane out of Mission Planner into Plugin software to drive a RS-232 Antenna Tracker system?
The info that is needed is Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude. I have a fri
Read more…I have had a problem with Mission Planner for a while now that the main window doesn't open up but it opens in minimize to the tool bar. The terminal window opens ok, but not the main window. Even if I click on it, it wont open . I have to hold the c
Read more…Does anyone knows the existence of 18' - 20' CW and CCW props?
Read more…What would be the base specs of motor and prop for a 30lbs thrust quadcopter?
Read more…Im running an APM 1.4 board and it was working fine up until a crash this afternoon. Thew board looks like is in good shape, I cant see any damage and when I plug in USB both boards power up and the computer recognizes it. However, I cant connect in
Read more…RTL comes home at right altitude. FBW-A flies nice. so PID's ire not too bad.
When in AUTO, AP applies negative pitch, and would hit terrain.
WP altitude is 100 -"Verify Altitude" not checked in planner.
I see in the log that targetalt = 103 and targ
Read more…After a long winter break I wanted to make my first flight in 2012 with my easystar and APM (after having more than 50 flights with the same equipment in 2011) During the initial ground testing I saw, that I could no change the APM modes any more.
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Version 2.5 of the ArduCopter code is now available in the AP Mission Planner and in the downloads area!
Enhancements:
Hi all,
Am i right to say that the GPS on the pre-soldered daughterboard with GPS cannot be disabled?
I have looked through the codes in brief.. it seems like there are no codes that provides detection of GPS in the event that an external GPS is conne
i was looking for some props at my local hobby shop and all they had were 12x3.8.... and i see on the order form when you pick what prop you want the 12 is 12x4.5...... think the 3.8 will work? i have the 880 motors in the 3d frame...
Read more…Hi,
is there someone taking in account the possibility of geomagnetism getting reversed very soon and before that going bananas ?
Just found this site on this subject.
Best regards,
Ric
Read more…The ArduPilot development team is delighted to announce the release of ArduPlane 2.30. This release replaces the current stable release (version 2.28) and is a recommended upgrade for all ArduPlane users.
DCM updates
The main focus of this release is i
Read more…It's getting harder to find them!
I've decided to go glider for a UAV platform. In order to do that I will need to either scratchbuild (which I don't want to do) or get a kit from which I can make moderate modifications.
Does anyone know if I can get
I'm using an APM2 from the first batch and am, having some trouble with the compass/magnetometer enable setting. The board set has been flying and I'm just investigating the compass as prep to moving it to a quad.
I can check Planner's enable box for
Read more…Is this normal to keep getting lost packets? It seems to affect how quickly the APM planner shows up the satellite status and position. I tried HK GCS out of interest and that shows a very poor link quality (around 10%), but shows the position on goo
I really have no idea how to analyse the log files.
This afternoon I was flying 2.5 from the git repository.
It does seem to fly better than 2.4.1.
Then I tried loiter and things did not go well.
I am only fairly new at this so was flying stabilize simpl
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