Hello DIY Community,
My team and I are in need of atmoshpheric wind data ASAP for university research purposes measured via a pitot tube mounted on-board a UAV flight system. Since we don't currently have the capability to fly an autonomous (APM or o
Read more…We have small group of folks working on designing a quad tilt rotor and are looking to hire arducopter expert in coding, software development, vehicle dynamics, sensor integration, board design, etc. We are based in Cincinnati, OH. The X-22 was a qua
Read more…Im flying a HK Bixler with the APM 1.4 board and everything seems to be working properly but "Auto" mode. FBW_A seems to work very well and RTL bring the plane back to the launch location as expected. However, when I activate Auto mode 4 out of 5 tim
Read more…I found this while surfing today:
Now, this might make things even more affordable ;)
Hi all,
I have try to use the joystick to control my APM 1.4 (2.28) the joystick work fine in simulation in Xplane but if i try to use on real i have several Issue :
1) the joystick center is not the same of the 0 radio center so when the joystick is
Read more…Have anyone else got the problem i see here:
Quad sits on the ground and the compass spinning like crazy.
Stablilze works pretty good. Sometimes RTL works, sometimes it just drifts away in some random direction. Same thing with Loiter
The spi
Read more…This started out as a basic check sheet for myself and its still a work in progress, but I felt this could also be benefit a lot of new people starting of flying multirotor aircraft's.
The first few pages is a field check sheet to go through before y
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Came across this video on you tube. A 5th prop is used for horizontal thrust.
What do you guys think?
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Newb here, I am flying with Quad and just got my basic FPV gear from RangeVideo. My question is about suggestions for software to view the video output on my Windows 7 laptop.
I have an AVERMEDIA EZMaker 7 USB thingy, and it comes with software for
Read more…Hi All, Just got going with some aerial photos with my Sony Nex5 and it looks like a hover of 5 feet or 150cm will work perfect for natural ground shots to make a good natural feel to the floor print, ie tarmac shot at full quality on the NEX gives a
Read more…I have been trying to change my MediaTek GPS to NMEA w 38500 baud settings. It has the DIY protocol in it right now. I can update the firmware with the DIY protocol no problem but I believe I am missing the NMEA file when I download it from the wik
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Hello
When writing waypoints to arducopter, using mission planner 1.1.48, it appears that they are not being stored. Waypoints written appear to be correctly saved when viewing wp test in the terminal tab. If I disconnect arducopter then reconnect, t
Read more…In ~20 mph winds, I was contracted to get many videos like this one...
There is plenty of work out there !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXmMeK9oK6k&feature=related
Eddie Weeks
Read more…Ive been having a prob with how my quad flies. standard diy 1.0 850kv's kit. have had it done since last november. anyway since 2.4 release my X setup doesnt seem to work right when doing a hand hold test. when i use roll things are ok but when i pi
Read more…I know that Arducopter2 supports camera stabilisation, so what I would like is to have an APM that is dedicated to just camera stablisation.
Can anyone help by cutting down a version of the AC2 code to just have the APM board do camera gimbal stablisa
Read more…Twice earlier this winter, I have had a go wit my quadcopter,and both times I went home with a damaged copter due to a blade snapping in mid-ait during easy flying or hover. Since the temperatures were arounbf -10 degrees C, I thought this could have
Read more…Is it possible to use Mission planer with external GPS on USB that would help to guide Cessna pilot to flight in paralel lines? What I am searching for long time is to be able to get higer refresh rate than 1Hz in order ti properly align plane I have
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Can anybody advise me if there is a method to charge LiPo batteries really quick (less than a minute, instead of tens of minutes)?
Is there any other battery type, other than LiPo batteries that can be used on RC planes and can be char
Read more…Just trying to get my first Quad running and my transmitter is not seen by the APM 1.4 . I am here:
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_First - at the setup steps.
Here is what I have done so far:
1. I have the APM connected via USB to my win
Read more…Hi all,I'm mid flow in gaining enough experience to fly my Nex5 with a 16mm lense but shooting direct down to the ground.Do you know if there is a way of bouncing the live view off the Nex5 to an iPad so I can see what the Nex5 is seeing so I can hit
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