I'm inching my way toward placing an order for an ArduCopter kit, and I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of a comparison between the two standard prop/motor combinations for the ArduCopter. The choices are 10x45/850Kv and 12x45/88
Read more…Having a bit of an issue, it seems that no output signal is going to my servos. Everything else appears to be working correctly (APM is reading TX as evidenced by config screen, servos are getting power as they twitch when power is applied) but the
Read more…I've set up my DIY quad with the default PID's (Roll_P 4.60, Pitch_P 4.60) and everything seems OK in tests except the motors/ESC's are very slow to react to tilting the quad while hand holding it. If tilted to the left 30 deg and then rapidly tilted
Read more…I'm busy setting up a DIY quad with an APM1. Downloaded the latest Mission Planner and now going through the steps to set the quad up. Everything including baud and com port are set correctly.
But I have discovered some inconsistencies with program an
Read more…I have just put my Ardupilot Mega (ATMega2560) and now I am attempting to upload the firmware. I have tried to use mission planner 1.1.22 and when i select arducopter for quad it comes up with an error saying " Failed to download new firmware:System.
Read more…I've been testing my purple board through the USB and it works good enough to replace an ArduPilot Mega 1 on an EasyStar. Everything is connected and the power jumper is in so the ESC is supplying system power.
But, the APM2 will not start up on eith
Read more…I'm trying to control my pan/tilt gimbal with a joystick through the mission planner.
Having a bit of an issue, as the servos immediately go into motion when APM is powered. I have the two servos plugged into channels 5&6, and those outputs mapped to
Read more…To control my servos from a computer ground station I'm considering buying the PCTx for $50 (www.endurance-rc.com). Is that a good choice?
Does anyone know what protocol the hitec 2.4Ghz aurora9 uses to transmit over the buddy cord?
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I am trying to set up an ArduPilot Mega 1.4 for a friend. Never had one before.
Hardware installation went OK. ArduCopter V2.2b2 flashed w Mission Planner. Checked out the git repository, and flashed the ardupilot-mega/Tools/ArduPPM/Binaries/ArduPP
Read more…I am still having problems compiling the ArduRover code, can someone please help
Read more…I am looking for a wireing program were I can use red for vcc, black for gnd and yellow for signal and use my own image as background image for the wireing diagram.
Can eagle do this?
I want to do sth like in the below picture, but add connectors,cable
Read more…I'd like to use and Android phone for displaying the telemetry data,
just like mission planner with the XBEE.
is it possible ? how ?
i just need to view the map, altitude, etc... no need for 2 way controls etc...
Read more…I'm using a bare 1280 board for HIL simulation, with an FTDI cable plugged into the serial port instead of an Oilpan.
Attempts to download from the Firmware tab results in "Can't Detect Your APM Version. Please Check your Cabling".
HIL code fits and wo
Read more…With reference to item 156: ALT_HOLD_RTL 10000 can someone tell me what units this is in and where do I change this setting using the APM mission planner please? I attached a screen shot of the item in question.
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I flied my copter a little high an suddenly it fallen quickly. I also flied a little far. It was luck I got it back, just broke almost arms. Motors were fine, and the ACM was also good.
Please help me to read the log, I could not bring it into the
Read more…Could someone please take a look at my log file and see If they can spot what I'm missing. Ive had 6 attempted flights all resulting in failures.
My setup is 8X quad.
Since my first 3 flights that failed, where the quad would on each flight veer to the
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After a crash (One motor stop working while flying) I start analyzing the problem and found that one of the pins OUT4 (Connecting via Power distribution board to ESC) on the ArduPilot Mega not working.
Tested all my connections and everything l
Read more…Does anyone know of any good quality small cameras that will output SD video while recording HD video(Like the gopro).... I would like to set up stabilize and PTZ(I believe APM and APM 2.0 can stabilize)
But I need to find a camera which has high qual
Read more…I've flown today a total of 23km, cris-crossing my position. My furthest point was 3.2km and I still had 90%+ reception on the XBee!
I have standard diapoles on both sides, has anybody tried cloverleaf / IBCrazy-type antennas?
So impressed!
Read more…I've just short circuit my APM 2560. It happen after connecting the +ve lipo cable to GND. I should have connect the +ve lipo cable to the AN0 pin. So right now my APM can only be power ON when connected to the USB cable from laptop but not from 5v U
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