Hi newbie question,
do i need the internet for the mission planner to work at the field ?
what in flight commands are available with the current MP ?
can i adjust the gains mid flight ?
can i add waypoints while in the air ?
Read more…Auto Take off and loiter for unlimited...
Something was definitely not right.
It took off perfectly but then started to rotate as in video.
I would imagine i did something wrong with the script.
I want to be able to take the copter anywhere, regardless o
I don't know what i did wrong but i almost fried my APM (lots of smoke !!!)
Yesterday i soldered on an external BEC Pluged everything in and POOF smoke came out , the BEC fried all up and the black wire on the servo lead from the ESC fried as well e
Read more…Hi Jason!
Would it be possible to have a modified altitude hold mode, but with the capability of changing altitude?
Bear with me ;)
Lets say the copter is on the ground and the throttle is at 0%. We select alt_hold2.
Increase the throttle to 50%. The c
Read more…Uploaded Arduplane 2.25 and APM Planner 1.0.91 (tried with 1.0.88 as well) and can't seem to get flightplans working correctly. I had it working before but maybe it's a user error on my part.
If I add any DO_JUMP command into a plan, it will never j
Read more…Hi all, just taking up flying. My plan is to learn on AeroSim RC and then start to build something like a Multiwii frame and hopefully in the New Year build something big enough and stable enough to shoot DSLR direct down for images of the ground for
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I've just been outside flying my recently rebuilt arducopter. I've added a lot of extras like FPV, OSD and LEDS. This has led me to cable tie the video transmitter and osd board onto different arms. I was worried that this might introduce some
Read more…When i go over 50% of the throttle, the motor seems to spin @ 100% gradually but quickly and yaw to the right. Hear the sound of motors in the video. What can i do now?
Thanks
Video: http://youtu.be/qeatK4JFG6Y
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I have try the latest version of APM Planner and i have notice that with this particular version in th HIL the APM did not take the Heading that Xplane send .
I will a roll back of version .88 and the HIL mode work correctly .
Read more…Just an idea - nowadays 3G modems cost nearly nothing with their free plans for few months. So I guess it has main chip which can accept AT-Commands like:
AT
OK
AT+CMGF=1
OK
AT+CMGW="+85291234567"
> A simple demo of SMS text messaging.
+CMGW: 1
OK
AT+CMSS=1
+C
Today I was flying my Quad and went to take off, pushed the throttle up just a little to make the props spin and then after more input the quad was not responding... Went to repeat the process but the second time it didnt even moved the props :( . To
Read more…Hi all,
After spending more than 2 days trying to get my EM406A work with my ArduIMU (v1) in binary a finally gave up.
I reset it all as an NMEA gps at 38400 baud and made sure I had a working GPS that got a fix using a terminal prograjm.
I ran the IMU
Read more…i am building my first QuadCopter and i am having a hard time picking the motor to use either the Turnigy 4240 Brushless Motor 1300kv or the Turnigy 4250 Brushless Motor 1000kv i know both have a max thrust of about 2400g. Can any one tell me wish wo
Read more…I am getting following error use AC2 v2.6.37+ i have used the latest version any body else having the problem with mission planer version 1.0.91
Some of the major players suffered an xbee bricking event:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15698439
At least we're not alone :-)
Read more…Hello, i am in need of a hexacopter that can do some heavy lifting and have a very long range of flight using ardupilot or waypoint. im new to this and do not wish to wasts my time learning for too long and getting noweere. I would like a hexacopter
Read more…I've been having a problem here and there and not able to pin it down. I've included a log of the last flight. What is happening is the horizon in MP shows that I'm not level and I have to use more stick to the opposite direction to keep it level. It
Read more…I'm assemble on my glider APM+OilPan+Xbee+Voltage and curren sensor+magnetometer with arduplane 2.24 and ArdupilotMegaPlanner to GCS, everything begins to work well but the air speed sensor is maintained at 0 with peaks 2.5m / s (according to the MPA
Read more…all of a sudden my xbee wont connect in the mission planner it was working fine yesterday .can someone steer me in the right direction i am sure i have the right com port and baud rate already how do i figure out the problem ??
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