Hello!Can I please appeal to the community with greater trigonometry knoweledge than myself to help solve this little problem I have come across?During my build of an Arducopter Traditional Heli on a Gas powered Raptor 90, I re-positioned the servos
Read more…I'm unable to load a previously saved mission. I do can read the mission from the APM, but afterward I can not write the mission back to the APM. I can also save to a file with no errors but not vice versa. Attached is the error I'm getting whenever
Read more…Does anyone know how do i reversed the camera tilt servo?
Cant find it on the code.
Read more…Can I trim the aluminum pitot tubes down in length? Maybe in half?
How many bends in the rubber tubing can I have before it begins to effect the airspeed readings?
Read more…Quick one. When I stwitch to stabilize mode and the plane is pitch down attitude the motor goes on. I just want to staiblise. ? Is this right. Fly by wire B does same which seems correct but why stabilise mode. Am I been dumb?
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Hi Michael,
I'm much appreciative of your Planner, but have a small problem, my own I suppose.
Now, I normally spend a lot of time setting up the aircraft, the computer, the link, which implies that I have up 6 or 7 logs now auto downloaded.
I really wo
Read more…Another windy day today for test flight #7 of my APM Skywalker. So what did I learn?Again my 2kg Skywalker struggled to take off, and with the strong wind I was flying again at 80-100% throttle on upwind circuits.I another club member noticed that my
Read more…I have updated AMP to 1.55, XPlane to 9.70, and am using APM2.2 HIL, everything connects up and reading are all correct, but as soon as I enable auto/ stabilize mode the aircraft spirals down to the ground and creshed when on xplane?Anyone got any id
Read more…I am so frustrated:)
I got me new APM up and running, and started doing tests with Mission Planner. I have followed the WIKI set by set and am at the point of turning my radio on and testing servo response.
Radio controls servos in manual mode as exp
Read more…Hi,
I recently had a bad crash and the 3.3V voltage regulator on the Oilpan that is located close to the I2C port was damaged. I replaced it with an absolutely identical chip (got the correct part number from the DIYDrones store). Now I have a couple
Read more…This is not a safe version to fly unless you know how to step through things and test throughly. I'm away on vacation and I don't have a machine to fly it on.
What I'd like to know is the SIMPLE mode works well or not.
UPDATE: I reworked the files to g
Read more…I have 2 xBee 900MHz with diydrones shields and if I don't remember to unplug the plane side xbee connection when I power up then it sometimes gets bricked where the blue and red lights stay on. I'm getting really good at debricking them in under a m
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I had a great flight this morning, waypoints checked accurately and XBee performing flawless ~ 300m distance.
However, coming home I wanted to check the KMZ file, but it had no altitude info? Just lat & long.
Any ideas? Herewith an extract:
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Hi all,
the ArduIMU+ V2 is sold out at the DIYdrones shop.
The ArduIMU+ V2 has been discontinued without replacement at Sparkfun.
The Ultimate IMU has been discontinued at Sparkfun.
I think there was a replacement product announced that has been pulled
Hi all,
please help to complete this list.
Available right now:
Mongoose 9DoF IMU with Barometric Pressure Sensor
http://ckdevices.com
x-IMU - The Ultimate IMU/AHRS Device
http://www.x-io.co.uk
9 Degrees of Freedom - Razor IMU - AHRS compatible
http://www
How is everyone else mounting their APM on there Skywalker?
Mine is mounted with Velco tap in main body under the CoG.
I'm using the Skywalker param, and I've reduced the Pitch P down from the default which is about 3.2 to 0.8 and the tail still quic
Read more…I purchased a GS407 U-Blox5 GPS 4Hz as part of order 13206 and I am not confident is behaving according to spec. There are two behaviors which I observe. The first behavior is very consistent, it never varies. The second is new, and I have not yet te
Read more…Hello, I don't know if this is the best category to post this but I figured I should start somewhere.
I have a recently purchased ArduPilot Mega w/ Airspeed and Magnetometer. I am installing this in a traditional glider with no motor.
The goal is
Read more…First my problem:
When running Mission Planner 1.0.54 (Windown Vista) Nothing is drawn on the maps. Not in the Planning tab or the Flight data tab. I can create WPs etc. but no waypoints shows up on the map. In the Flight data tab the plane symbol and
Read more…With my expected Skywalker I should be able to get around an hour's flight, so I can cruise the entire length and breadth of a farm. However, it will be way out of sight and range of an XBee.
My worry is what if it does not come back - I need to go f
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