I am a bit concerned about the energy spent and fuss about the Simple feature, so I will post my considerations, hoping it will help someone understand better this feature.
The simple mode (feature) is nice, allowing one to control the copter with th
Read more…Made a video of my testing today including autonomous MISSION with 2.0.46 (version from the zip file in the download section).
Stabilise was excellent as always, except maybe for a little to big dead band on yaw. Indoor I could takeoff and fly maybe
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I'm finally got my jDrones Hexa assembled to my specification (painted, custom wiring, etc). I began tuning it today, so far so good.
I noticed that when starting up the motors, some of them, on occasion, generate a sharp crackli
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I seem to have a problem with me copter and I cant put my finger on it, I have built a few Quads before and have had no problem with them but my own copter for some reason has given me problems for past few months now, I first loaded the 2.3
Read more…Hello:
I´m looking for a laser or radio altimeter for small autopilot (like APM, or paparazzi)... anybody know anyone? I only found big and expensive ones (3000 $ and more) :(
Thanks in advance
Jesús
Read more…Very happy, got the APM up in the air first time flying missions and downlinking telemetry.
Michael Oborne, splendid job on the ground station!
So, now some noob questions:
- what are the red, black, orange and green straight lines?
- Under where it
Read more…Hypothetically speaking: If i take my quad to 20m and completely kill the throttle, it will tumble and fall...
If i throttle back up, will it recover???
Thanks
Though Id ask before trying.... :)
G
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Which laptop are you using guys for outdoor mission planning ?
I've found this this with a transflective screen :
http://www.ruggednotebooks.com/rnb-eagle-semi-rugged-laptop
http://www.cloversystems.com/SunBook.htm
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Would it be possible and interesting to use two pitot tubes making a 90° angle to detect wind direction for Loiter and Navigation corrections ?
The actual Auto and Loiter modes seems to have some difficulties to keep the right position when there is
Read more…Since a week orso my copter has trouble getting started. It would only initialise after many powerup attempts. Staring in CLI would go fine, in flightmode it would'nt initialise.
After suspecting, gps, barometer and wireless telemetry port, I found
Read more…Did someone had problem with Xbee 900Mhz regarding grounding?
My Xbee 900Mhz is producing some king interference in the values produced by airspeed sensors and altitude.
However when I touch the Airplane Xbee antenna, the sensor reading values are perf
Read more…I have had no end of trouble with the 880Kv motors from jDrones, these past few months, and want to know if anyone else is having similar issues. I would not normally bring up a topic on a particular supplier part but these are one of the recommende
Read more…About midday. I just test my arducopter code 2.0.46 update in Loiter mode. It have best. But, Something move circle (CCW) from center about 3-5 m. And I don't all tuning (default PI). Bad weather because It have very cloud and high headwind. GPS, It
I'm currently running version 2.0.42 (very nice) in stabilize mode, on the standard Arducopter frame and components. I also have mounted a point and shoot camera to take stills and videos.
My question is how do you make the smoothest yaw/pan turn? I t
Read more…I flew my Falcon EPO FPV for the first time, its done many normal flights before on that aircraft. I had a co-pilot/spotter that was maintaining direct visual contact with the aircraft. The aircraft was only 700m away, One minute I had control, the
Read more…Mundus is pushing their press release about Air Drone CEO Justin Chapman's publication of what they claim is the FAA manual for UAVs for use in the movie industry. The press release has been picked up all across the Internet, a search for "chapman FA
Read more…USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I haven't tested this myself yet. Perhaps someone with more experience in the codebase could review this.
I am attaching a zip of the files I modified to add a Position Hold mode to ArduCopter. This is essentially the same as Lo
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I had a rough landing in wet grass (would call it a crash but no visible damage), and when I got to the quad the ESCs were beeping. Shortly after I was able to take off, but no yaw control and then it flipped (first time ever, normally its d
Read more…I have built my first Arducopter from a jdrones store kit and how cool is it!
I have been manually flying it to test it and check the Xbee link etc and have no real issues with that.
Floats around more than I thought though.
Tried ALT mode and seems
Read more…So i hover 2 meters above the ground and engage ALT hold mode. Slowly the quad lands itself. Theres no indication of the motors speeding up or slowing down to compensate for altitude.
When I put it in loiter mode, it holds altitude and loiters at 2 m
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