NOTE: Solved, Lessons learned, this is here for reference.
Hi folks, another smokeshow. And now I want to give up. so pissed.
You will have to forgive me, nothing against any of you, or chris, or the project, but this is just WRONG.
After reading about
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Objective: making a quad that can loose a motor or esc without it crashing.
Solution: Mount four motors under the current four motors. Mount props that turn the same way. So there is still yaw control. So you still have 4 turning cw a
Read more…I have just ordered my first ArduPilot.
Attached are my 'proof of concept' pictures.
The plane is a 'foamie' home design (also rigged with lights for night flights).
121 pics were taken with an iPhone at 2 sec intervals at an estimated height of 25m; au
Read more…I have an interestering thing I am observing.
I spent a lot of time PID tuning and have my plane performing extremely well on some flights, but not on others.
It seems that about one in every 3 or 4 flights, the plane hunts back and forth along the way
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I just loaded the latest firmware from APM planner. All went perfectly.
But now one of my motors is twitching. (see video)
Im not sure if its the firmware? Probably not...
Any ideas?
Thanks
G
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Compliments to Michael, Samantha and Max for an absolutely awesome piece of software!!!!!!
Is there a way you could add an automatic update check to it as well as having the option to
choose which version (latest and older) of firmware to upload.
Tha
Read more…Hey Guys,
Iv been wondering, what the most stable, glitch free, feature rich AC2 firmware version,
specifically for aerial photography.
Id like the firmware version that is least likely to try kill my $1500 camera.
Thanks :)
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I am new to this and just soldered up the boards including oil pan.
I bought a magnetometer as well but as yet have not added this.
Connected the system to my PC along with mission planner software and found it seemed to have already compass direc
Read more…First of all, thank you for the transition from svn to git repository. After steep learning curve, I've come to like git for the ability to have own hacks in own repository and ability to easily create patches for community.
As a new contributor, I h
Read more…This is not clear to me, but do I have to do anything with the xbee before unplugging from the laptop?
I have disconnected from mavlink but not sure if it is meant to be stopped like a usb stick when unpluggin from the usb port.
richie
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Could someone give me a run down on how the camera stabilization on the Ardupilot mega works?
How does it work?
What do i need to make it work?
And where do I connect the things I need to make it work?
Does it stabilize in 2 axis?
Thanks :)))
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I have recently bought an ardupilotMega kit. Although it is said that it's a plug-and-play autopikot sestem, I want to say that it is not the case at all. The last rediculus problem I have had was that FBW A doesn't work. FBW B works fine but A
I uploaded 2.24 via Planner and set everything up.
When I get GPS lock everything in Planner seems to do what I expect - the AHI responds OK, GE shows the correct position and the mode switch works (I have set it for Manual, Stabilise and RTL). The
Read more…I have a program which contains the auto take off and landing function in the Semi-Auto mode for my Quad using the APM board with the Sonar sensor LV EZ0. My approach is by sensing the height from the sonar sensor for the auto take off and landing.
Fo
Read more…so the big boys use it. diydrones uses them . I am going to need one soon. and I've been thinking about how to build one on the cheap.a few thoughts1 cordless drill with an rpm meter (probably not very accurate but cheap)2 stepper motor (rpm accurate
Read more…When I engage RTL, the manual says it returns to the point or origin (home)
But it says nothing about what altitude it goes to. When I tried RTL, I flew 30m away from my
home position, my altitude was about 5m. It took off back to the home postion but
Read more…I have the telemetry kit. But when i plug it in it causes the ACM to constantly restart, which was the cause of my crash the other night, the xbee works fine.
I Power the board directly and not from the servo rail.
I suppose it might be drawing too
Read more…apologies if this was asked already.
I have the APM 2560 and 1280 bought within the last 3-4 months. Apparently there are newer versions of the Invensence Gyros.
1. Can anyone confirm if the IMU's sold recently are infact the latests version gyros?
2
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