I would be interested to share what others are using and how they have their power systems set up and what they find does and doesn't work. .
I am using a 3300mAh 4S 35-75C Turnigy battery and I'm in the dark about what to expect from this considerin
Read more…Prior to it's last flight, my hexa, which I am thinking of naming after some sort of bug like the queen bee, was finally flying. I had taken it out three times to see how it did. Used a couple simple modes which seemed to work okay (RTL, Loiter).
Read more…Hi, I am having trouble with some strange wobbling on roll axis now and then.
Can it be too much vibration on the APM ? - should I mount it "better" ?
Read more…So far I learned that arming for 20sec enters one of those.
Then you should fly in windless conditions.
Wiki says: "Once you are flying perfectly level, simply land the copter and wait out the remaining time. The accelerometer offsets will be overwritt
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I wondered if there was any information about that I could use to approximate airframe weight?
I was thinking that if you knew the total weight of the UAV its endurance and speed you could extrapolate the information?
Airframe weight 5 Kg
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I'm thinking of getting a Fireball V90 (http://www.probotix.com/FireBall_v90_cnc_router_kit/ but open to other suggestions on the same price region) to machine parts for an octo copter and gimbal.
I have a few questions:
- looking at http://h12.ablo
I'm new to DIYDrones and have been poking around the ArduPilot-Mega code a bit, fetching the latest GIT repo contents. My project is to make an autonomous vehicle, but using a different board, the Arduino Uno. For the 3 RC channels, GPS, Sonar, and c
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A friend of mine, an electrical engineer, referred me to this product:
It's a XBee Pro on 868mhz, with a high power
Read more…hi,i try the new firmware in acro mode and my arducopter roll to left so much and i can't take off.when i try to fly in stable mode it fly very well but i think i must correct the acro mode stability.any suggestion?
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I've been trying to set up antenna tracking using Micro Maestro (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1350)
but so far wasnt able to make servos move.
I followed these instructions: http://code.google.com/p/happykillmore-gcs/wiki/Tracking
I can cont
Read more…Hi I can not get the plane to change speed ( I am testing it on X-plane 9) APM Planner 1.1.31, I have tried many times but nothing happen, it just ignore the command and go to the next waypoint, I am newbie and probably doing something wrong, can any
Read more…Hi All,
I am using APM1 with Xbee pro 900 stock.
When I am updating params for Arducopter, I got failure and then it could not connect any more.
The Mission Planner is 1.1.31.
Is there any way to test this Xbee and detect what module is wrong? Both them
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i was wondering what version of the APM and Aurduino and mission planner are compatible with the traditional heli ?
Read more…While learning how to fly my bird, I have given up on the crappy little legs provided by jDrones as they were broke, repaired and broke again. Time to go to Lowe's and see if they have something to make legs out of. Searched all the ailes and found
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Hi Guys .
I found this video. and I was wondering isnt there any use in adding hall sensors to the motors on your copter to give feedback to the controller of how fast each motor is spinning ? this would make fualt finding on underperforming motors v
Read more…This is a thread to submit ArduCopter configuration files (PID settings) for common airframes. Once they are reviewed, they will be placed in the manual here so that others may use them.
Along with your config file (saved from the Mission Planner),
Read more…Hello i´m trying to configure this 2 modules of 900mhz xbee with this XCTU 32-bit ver. 5.2.7.5 but so far and even after try to read all the help available on the internet, it just dont comunicate one to another. So this is the problem i have :
1- I
Read more…How do the size affect the performance of a hexa or octacopter?
I suspect longer arms equals more stable platform, but is there a limit for the length of the arms? Recon longer arms will result in more slow response but for a camera platform i find t
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