Alright fellas......I've started my project and I need some help cause I'm struggling!
I've bought a Foamaroo air frame that I'm planning on doing some areal photography and I'd like to add sort of telemetry so that I can have FPV and send commands to
Read more…I'm using APM with OilPan and ArduPlane 2.8, I have telemetry by XBee 900 and in the GCS Mission Planner 1.1.47.
When I want change the mode to Auto on fly instead change to Auto mode it change to RTL, for make this change I use the mission planner.
Hi,
I was curious to hear from pilots with comparison experience using ArduPlane as an autopilot, vs. other autopilots? I just built an ArduQuad copter and have it flying. Not far but after crashing it a few times I'm getting the hang of it ;-) . N
Read more…I started off small with a custom built quad and got the hang of flying multicopters...This just fueled the fire. After doing much research, attempting to build everything from scratch and failing, I decided to start buying components for my hexa. (I
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Maybe I'm doing something stupid, or don't understand something, but on my simple flight plan this morning I had a 3 turn loiter command. When my plane reached the position, it simply kept on circling, never exiting even after 6+ turns.
Did I do
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I have a brand new sonar (order 20017)connected to my APM2 via a servo cable.
The sonar always gives 22-23 cm regardless of altitude and this sends my quad into orbit if i switch to alt_hold.
I can make the sonar give proper reading for a minute or
Read more…I have a tricopter, and it finally hovers. I have not start flying around yet as I am going through a little issue with yaw.
The default yaw PID is 8(P). So, I tried hovering with that. I get to face one direction and it will hover for a while and it
Read more…Hello:
I´ve bought thuis kit from jdrones:
http://store.jdrones.com/product_p/acq11arf.htm
Anybody has the parameters file of this airframes, because the ones that have from the factory doesn´t work well...
Thanks
Jesús
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I am a new UAV builder designer and would like to know IF there is any problems exporting the APM2 and associated hardware and software to Canada and other countries, I am about to place an order and I dont want to lose it at the customs.
Thank you
Read more…In the past I know there has been a number of discussions regarding redundancy on here, however (at the time) there seemed to be no successful demonstrations or stories of motor redundancy with the Arducopter. Now that a reasonable mount of time ha
Read more…I have a turnigy 200w lipo charger (single port). It charges a 5000mah 4s in about 45mins.
My question is: Will charging 4x 5000mah 4s take 45 mins or 180min with a
turnigy (200w) 4x6s quad charger???
(http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewIte
Read more…Has anyone obtained, or considering obtaining a commerical UAV Operator's Certificate (OC) here in Australia? I am interested in peoples experience in obtaining an OC, and any challenges they may have faced.
More info regarding the OC here:www.ca
Read more…Bought the pro 900 telemetry kit from DIY for my APM2, but no luck getting them to communicate. Both XBee's communicated fine with X-CTU, setting baud to 57600 and a VID to 989. I even re bricked them and successfully upload new firmware and reset
Read more…Hi my VSI gage is jumping aroung with the quad just sitting on the ground....am i missing something here? here is a vid..... and i have the latest FW on it.. Oh i do have a sonar on it but its the ez4...could this be it?
Read more…Looks like the Chinese cloned the MinimOSD already? Complete with FTDI adapter...
Read more…I have APM2, XBee Pro 900, connected to MinimOSD without TX line as advised. When I power up the system, the MinimOSD always shows Booting, then "Update Charset" and goes no further. If I press the hard reset it works fine again, but never on initi
Read more…Hallo to everyone . I m looking for PID files for HOBBICO NEXTSTAR EP or Hobbico NEXTSTAR SELECT.
I am grateful for any help
Thank you Nikos
Read more…I have been interested in flying fpv for some time and now that I have enough flight hours under my belt I want to give it a shot. I've done some research and determined that 900mhz is the way to go. The part I'm getting confused on is the power...10
Read more…I just got the electronics chassis from DIYDrones and put it all together and Im wondering how to attach it to the plane. Are the magnets in the kit really enough to hold it on? How many did others use? Theres not a lot of surface area on the magnets
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Has anyone encountered any problem with the dataflash of the APM 2.0? I just found out I have an issue with it when I first tried to download the logs my flights from the APM planner Terminal tab. I was not able to download any flight log
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