I'm currently using my old development laptop which is powerful enough, but it's screen is so dim outside it's completely useless without a shroud or inside a car behind a shaded wall.
I'm thinking of buying a laptop specifically for running the miss
Read more…Hey, I had a little brainstorm last night after watching the DJI Wookong video. It's a sweet little system, but I wondered if AC2 could do that? So I put a battery on the end of one arm and it couldn't hold level. It came close but 3-4° error meant t
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I'm back on testing ACM, now with 2.0.54. My last test was probably with 2.0.40 or similar.
I have tunned my pids and I'm pretty satisfied with the results.
My only problem is that when I'm flying forward in stabilize mode with the nose down (
Read more…A new plane, a new APM, but the same problem.
I've spent 45 minutes trying to guess the correct way to plug in the wires.
Looking at the diagram for APM 1.4 and above: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/RC and the picture just below, I can'
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I have ArduCopter frame, APM with code from Mission Planner 1.0.98. I did go throughout the whole setup and succeed to lift Arducopter above ground successfully, but: It happens frequently that APM freezes with motors turning and there is no re
Read more…I can't seem to find them. I'm particularly interested in the mechanical drawings for the standard arducopter frame. Thanks.
Read more…I have the older 1280 board and I want to load the code 2.24 But it seems the information to di this is no longer in the Wiki? It appears the current Mission Planer cannot load this code so what happened to the instructions for Ardu IDE? Can someone
Read more…This version is bug fixes from 2.0.50-53 had some navigation bugs that manifested themselves in a bad way when flying in adverse condition. I would not recommend flying these in AP and I have deprecated the downloads on Wiki site.
If you downloaded 5
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Rz_Ten1 was having some very strange crashes, and a few other users chimed in too once they heard his symptoms. He was able to reproduce it, then narrow it down to a hardware failure. His compass did not have the ground pin soldered leading
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I bought an ardupilotmega, 7-8 months ago and installed it on my hand made plane and was working well. (all modes were working properly). 2 weeks ago I had a very bad crash. there is not any sign of damage or defect on the boards. but w
Read more…Ok maybe a strange question but how do I get the forum to show me the latest replys. The laterst replys are now shattered through the threads for me. I would realy like to see the latest replys at the end of the thread instead of throughout the threa
Read more…Hi all,I've set up 6 modes on my Futaba 7c according to the instructions in the wiki.When I check in the CLI they all list correctly as I change the switch combinations. When I connect to mission planner via xbee only mode one and two will show corre
Read more…While troubleshooting another issue with APM, I noticed there was a pair of pads unused on the board. One pad is connected to pin 1 (PG5) of the ATmega1280 chip. The APM schematic shows there is a 1K resistor (R8) connected to pin 1 (the other pad
Read more…I have a new ARF airplane with the hatch attached by magnets. How far from the magnets do I need to mount the magnetometer?
Read more…I've been flying fine with the standard parameters on my 3DR stock frame with stock motors and small pan/roll gopro mount.
Now I want to experiment with inflight tuning. I'm not sure if I got it right so before I take off and cause a crash I thought
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I am planning to build a DIY octocopter heavy lifter, in order to lift a canon 5d. I thought to do a X quad configuration, dual motor on each arm, the same style as the Y6 but, as it where a X8, thus reducing the hardware and weight. The firmware
Read more…There's a person at work selling their netbook and I'm wondering if it would run this ground station. Here's a link showing one that is the same model.
http://www.amazon.com/HP-110-1030NR-10-1-Inch-Black-Netbook/dp/B002BH4N12
They upgraded the RAM to 2
Read more…I just addes a 5v ubec to my system for powering the APM it solves a lot of sonar issues for me. But I just measured and the ubec gives 5,3v instead of 5v is this a problem for the apm or is it ok?
Read more…Yesterday i was tuning my ACM board via USB cable. - wire of LiPo was connected to 5v BEC, + wire was not connected. Suddenly + LiPo wire touched ground of telemetry modem... I saw some sparks, computer died.
Now, when im connecting ACM board through
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