Im having trouble with the throttle on my octo.
I battle to hover it. Im only moving the throttle 1mm or less at a time but the thing keeps bobbing.
Is there anything I can do or do I just need more practice?
Thanks
G:)
Read more…The Ardupilot manual keeps saying to adjust the Servo PID gains, but shouldn't servos be fast enough to respond these days without gain tuning?
What is the difference between Mission Planner's Nav Roll PID, Nav Pitch AS PID, Nav Pitch Alt PID and thei
Read more…I'm having trouble powering off the motors after landing. I tried to disarm by holding the stick to the left, but nothing happens until I disconnect the battery. I know its not the RC transmitter signal, because in play back on MP I can see the thro
Read more…I don't know if this is an error with the APM planner log writing or something wrong with our autopilot or what!
Recently since version 1.1.23 we have noticed that the aircraft position is jumping around the map at odd intervals and seems to freeze in
Read more…We have just completed constructing a 3 meter electric powered UAV with an inverted " Vee Tail " rudder /elevator assembly, ailerons and flaps. We can program the V tail in the transmitter but have not see how to set up the APM1 for this function.
Read more…We've done a test over the weekend and had great fun. Stunning software, love it to bits!
However I think I found a couple of issues that users should be made aware of:
Ascending: If you set a waypoint altitude too high in that there is not enough time
Read more…Hi guys
as many of you, after upgrading im sitting with a 1280 APM board still a perfectley good board. shouldnt we try and find a secondary use for it . like camera scypt . gimbal stabilization , pan tilt contoller for FPV flights ?
what other ideas
Read more…Still trying to understand all the various flavours of Ardu.
Using the 1280 Mega with shield at the moment but I've got a couple more questions.
There appears to be a USB connection on both boards yet on the one on the shield is used - what is the othe
Read more…Had put this in another forum, but no reponses as of yet
My name is James Pollock, and I am a private investigator. (www.bulldogpi.com)
I would like to engage in conversation with the active members of this website, including it's moderators, on the
Read more…Hi all,
I built a mini quad, it seems like it doesnt have enough power to take off.
I used:
4 of these motors :
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=5358
4 of these ECS's:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.a
Read more…So I tried pluggin the 3DR PCB SD card into my pc via an SD card adapter.
It didnt work... Am I doing something wrong?
The IC on the bottom of the card kinda prevents it from going it too far.
However I dont think it prevents the contacts for making con
Read more…Hi droners,
I'm having a bit of a doubt tilting the lower motors in the Y6 I'm about to maiden.
let's take for instance the two rear motors 8 and 4, 8 turns CCW, and 4 CW, but it's the prop that turns CW, as the motor is rotated 180º as well as the pro
Read more…Sorry, posted this inadvertantly in quite the wrong section before
.Can anybody help me ? I have recently uploaded Arduplane 2.28 to my APM v1 2650. I uploaded waypoints and geo-fence data to it using Mission Planner 1.1.26 but now I have a problem.
Read more…Hi all,
My set up worked fine through all the setup process but now simply keeps rotating thru the abc LEDS without Mavlink. It seems to be 'stuck' near the end of code. The GPS gets a lock after about 2 mins. I can load and reload APM code via MP but
Read more…Should there any issues using two radios, one to fly the drone and another to control a camera pan/tilt rig under the drone?
Read more…I'm running ArduPlane V2.251.
I don't have the facility where I can press enter three times to get the CLI while in flight mode - when clicking Terminal the APM Planner just fills the screen with gibberish and banging the enter key does not help.
Withi
Read more…Loiter works great, alt hold works great.
The drift however is a KILLER!
I plug everything in, arm the motors and all is well, but over time (around 20-30s) I slowly have to start giving more and more stick input to keep it in one place. Until eventual
Read more…Hi All,
Could anyone please have a look at this and let me know whether the following diagram is correct.
Since the the main V+ (4S lipo) is connecting directly to APM1, plus wiki was not clear for me, It would be great if some one can confirm.
Ofcour
Read more…Hi,
Looking in the ArduCopter source, I see
Requires modified "mrelax" version of Arduino, which can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/downloads/list
Hmmm nice but I have a Linux machine. Is there a relax patch for that?
I have tried
Read more…2012-01-03%2012-14-24.tlog here is a log of a flight i did sometimes it flies on the line
Read more…