This is latest Arducopter firmware, with magnetic declination entered. properly leveled. 3DR frame, the rest are pretty much default settings. Beside being a little nervous, it flies fine.
APM mounted on vibration damping mounts. , Good GPS fix.
Loit
Read more…Having had a few successful flights and a few non-successful flight of my 3DR arducopter I have a question which is somewhat along the lines of a previous post about throttle sensitivity.
How hard would it be to limit the ceiling of the flight to say
Read more…For the last several months I have been enjoying flying my quadcopter with the motor shafts reversed. This has proven to lower vibration induced issues with the onboard Gopro and has also proven to remove the overall twitchyness of the craft. The
Read more…Which motors are the better pick for the ArduCopter 3DR Quad KIT when just using it for testing and maybe some lite FPV equipment? 850kv or 880kv?
Read more…Is there a page that goes over how to debug and calibrate the ArduIMU? I'm not sure even what board I should have selected in Arduino GUI for building. Also, I'd like to know what the different LED patterns mean also. Some type of page with that
Read more…Hi guys after some considerable time in dev. the production molds are now up and running here are some construction shots of what is coming. This is a flying camera mount. You steer the camera and the model follows. It will have a modified APM-2 to s
Read more…I wanted to make a minor change to uncomment WITH_NMEA_MODE, run a GPS test in Mission Planner for Venus GPS (didn't get that far). I got compiler warnings with both 2.27 and 2.28 using both 022 and 023 before making any code changes. All 4 version
Read more…I can't get the firmware to load on my board. I've never used the Arduino compiler before, but I followed the directions to a 't'. This is the message I get when I hit upload:
Error Compiling.
In file included from C:\Documents and Settings\rayl
Read more…Hi guys after some considerable time in dev. the production molds are now up and running here are some construction shots of what is coming. This is a flying camera mount. You steer the camera and the model follows. It will have a modified APM-2 to s
Read more…Ok, needs some hardware folks to tell me how to fix my Oilpan. Either I've been using the USB plug too much or, due to my recent rough flying, the USB plug on my Oilpan has come off.
I'm totally inept at surface mount soldering, so the questions I ha
Read more…Complete noob here and need some help. I bought a jDrones hexa (big motors, 10x4.5 blades). I am running 2.3 (which may be a problem after reading about it's premature release). My copter did this with 2.2b4 as well.
The issue is that the copter
Read more…Q1a:What is the required initial state of the IMU chip on start?
Q1b:Does it need to be static (not moving) or can it be booted up while in motion?
Q2: how many Gs can t he IMU take before failure?
Thanks
V
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I am trying to order wire to distribute power to the m2mPower AC20-1.0 esc that come with the Arducopter kits. Can anybody tell me what the input wire gauge is? Thanks
Read more…I'm using an LSM303DLM on a Pololu MinIMU-9 board as part of an AHRS. The software is ported to mbed from Pololu's example code which is in turn ported from ArduPilot 1.5. But that's no what this is about.
This is a saga of one man... with meager math
Read more…Hello, all
Currently, my Ardupilot Mega is getting data from one MaxSonar sensor and one GPS sensor, but want to integrate more sensors one it such as multiple MaxSonar sensor, temperature sensor, speed sensor, etc. Does anyone know how to solve this
Read more…Hi All,
I recently purchased a new APM 2560 for my quad. The issue is it is not able to connect to Mission planner. When i try to upload the code it says not 1280 and not 2560 something like this discussion
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/can-t-detec
Read more…Ok, I almost done with this, after 10 great flies with my skyfun jet, I just try to install my apm 1 with IMU board on one of my Quad and it did it again this is the no.3 apm board that suddenly stop working, the firts one stop to have signal input f
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Jason is travelling this week, so I'll take the helm for the next software release post.
UPDATE: the motor remapping thing was confusing everyone, so we took that out and returned to the regular motor mapping. That means that APM 2 users with Hex
Read more…The xbee's only talk to each other when the APM is powered by the USB port, I then power the APM by the Servo rails and the xbees will not talk to each other.
What could possibley be the issue here.
Set up
Firmware XBEE Pro 802.15.4 Version 10ED
Baud Ra
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