Finished my Arducopter (3DR) and was setting up the configuration in the mission planner. I got it talking then loaded the firmware and checked out the sensor operation in the mission planner. Then went to the radio input page and saw no input, it wa
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I'm building a new 3DR copter with Ardupilot 2.0 and was wondering what motor you guys would recommend buying if I plan on carrying a standard GoPro? The 850 Kv or 880 Kv? I know most of the new Arducopter firmware releases are based on t
Read more…After searching quite a bit, I've found this post: http://diydrones.ning.com/forum/topics/ardupilot-power-supply?commentId=705844%3AComment%3A158510. Here Chris Anderson says that anything that's ok for the receiver would be ok for the APM.
Voltage to
Read more…I have a strange power problem. My IMU shield only seems to work when powered via the USB plug. When the APM is powered only via the BEC, the servos move erratically, the ABC and TX/RX LED's on the oilpan do not illuminate- although the oilpan power
Read more…Hi everyone. I have a 3DR frame and i have Setup the Copter to be in an X position with the Ardupilot facing forward.
My problem is that the copter keeps changing the Pitch and Roll sticks all the time. If i reverse the connections it does it again af
Read more…Does anybody worked on the position estimation of a hovering UAV (quadrotor, helicopter etc.) using external multiple webcams+PC and a custom OpenCV (or MATLAB) application in indoor environment ?
(Yes, I'm trying to make a poorman's version of expens
Read more…Has anyone made a 5 hole probe to measure angle of attack? what about using 3 of the existing diff sensor from diydrones and make a new probe?
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I've ordered an APM2 at the begining of dexember an tody is D day ! I've just received my board but it's starting by a big deception (I hope i'm wrong).
I've just connected the board to my pc USB an NOTHING happened ...
Windows, doesn't de
Read more…Ive decided to move ahead and purchase a skywalker. By the way, I think I saw somewhere a "version 5" with a reinforcement rod for the wings, versus rubber bands... any opinions on this?
To keep things simple,my intention was (is?) to purchase the s
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dronemapper.com
My UAV partner (Ross) and I have been working on a project that we'd love to get some feedback and additional ideas for. Our intention is to allow free access to this web based tool and also a really cheap subsc
The LM317 datasheet says it can take in up to 40V?! Does that mean i can put 12V LiPo directly into the APM board for external power?
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/snvs774l/snvs774l.pdf
Is it possiable to replay video recorded in Mission Planner Sync with Google earth or lat/long.
Is to posiable to play video with telemetry data ?
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I am really very impressed how many information about software and hardware configuration for my Arducopter I can find in the manual on the site diydrones.com. It is really a great job, thanks for all the people involved!
But as a beginner in e
Read more…So, last weeks episode ended with me with my head hanging low and the contemplation that hard drugs and hard alcohol could possibly act as a substitute for my obsession to get into multicopters.
(See http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/things-that-go-u
Read more…Been working a little bit this weekend on my ArduCopter, and now to the point of setting up the battery voltage/current monitor.
I see the AttoPilot part is not in stock where I would normally purchase from. There is a sensor I have laying around from
Read more…I took my APM2/Y6 out for its maiden today. At first, it seemed ok, a little wobbly, but this is only with a few PID iterations. Something just doesn't feel right though. After some forward flight in stabilize mode, if I return the elevator to neutra
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After 8 very successful flights these last weeks, this morning for some reason, while in stabilise, my plane's surface areas are very slow to respond to movement of the airframe. Normally, using the standard skywalker parameters, the ailerons a
Read more…Hi All,Started flying yesterday and am building confidence to start flying my Sony Nex5 but I'm going to strap it under the batterie and shoot direct down for our new www.floorink.com gallery. I'm going to shoot all textures through the seasons that
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