Hi,
A few questions about buying an Arducopter.
1) Are the kits and prebuilt models sold at udrones and jdrones considered Aducopter 1.x or 2.x models?
2) I'd like to add telemetry as well as FPV. Udrones offers telemetry but only the 850 motors. J
Read more…how do we get the pitch angle when the plane is accelerating forward from accelerometer. Do we only use gyro data to find pitch . Or is there any way by which i can use accelerometer data to find the pitch?
Read more…It may be a good idea to add some user configurable accelerator keys in the mission planner. For example, when I press "M" or some joystick button, the mode of APM changes to Manual. It may help reduce the number of buttons in the action tab, and let
Read more…When I plan a mission, I'd like to manually zoom the map to proper level so that I have a good overview. However, when I start to click on the map, it zooms automatically to fit the markers, and thus I have to zoom it back again and again. I don't li
Read more…Recently I have started to fly my ArduCopter with camera piloting by video goggles. All is fine, but sometimes it might be difficult to estimate altitude and vertical speed (which are very important!) accurately. OSD is a solution, however, there is
Read more…Just flew 2.36 - compiled from source code. No source changes from the download. Standard MB1200 sonar attached. Standard frame. No other changes to my quad configuration.
Stabilize flies ok, yaw seems ok and fairly responsive.
Compass:
Output seems t
Read more…I lost track of the time and am getting back in to building my quad.
I see Arducopter 1 & 2. I am going to assume a new main board?
I also downloaded the controller built by M.Osbone.
Will this work witrh the older version of the control unit?
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I seem to be doing something wrong. I have connected a DroneCell to my Arduino Uno for testing, powering it with 5V. RX -> RXI and TX -> TXO.
Then I connect to it with screen over the USB cable like this (38400 baud was mentioned in the quick star
Read more…Question – Will the ArdupilotMega MAVLink work with the XBEE Pro 900 XSC? Everything works until I to try to connect to the telecom (XBEE) system, and then I get the following message:
“Is your CLI switch in Flight position?
(this is required for MAV
Read more…Hi everyoneOne motor on my quad behaves funnily. At low throttle, it seems to stutter and not spin. It seems to start spinning only at higher throttle settings.I also notice that it's esc heats up quite a lot. Any advice as to what is wrong?I stopped
Read more…upload from AMP. ver 35.
test on 3 board, 3 frame,3 remote and 3 rx
1. quad copter 28cm /arm, motor 1000kv 2820, prop 10x45,default PID
2. quad copter 40cm/arm,motor 1000kv 2820, prop 10x45,change IMAX from 50 to 100 default PID
3. hexacopter 28cm.arm
Read more…I am having a problem with my APM v1.0. I had the unit up and running as advertised with no issues, however, I did suffer a small crash with no obvious physical damage to the APM or the IMU. Since then, I have had no output to the esc from APM. The s
Read more…Now that my hexa is flying nicely I'm about to start trying out other functions.
So far I've only tried ALT hold mode, and that works well.
But before I'm going to try RTL, I have a couple of questions.
1. Confirming that when RTL is activate the co
Read more…After a frustrating couple of weeks trying to find out why my copter was spinning and flipping just after take off a complete rebuild was necessary and recheck of everything, After spending 3 hours rebuilding everything and doing a test flight everyt
Read more…When I turned on Alt Hold, it held very nicely.
Hi!
I've gone over the forum looking for a summary of aluminum arm length (i.e., motor to motor length) folks using the 880kv motors are having but can't seem to find one.
Will appreciate any sharing on the 880kv motor to motor length of the ardu fra
Read more…Doing well with .35 so I moved on to .36 this evening. I updated the Mission Planner software first. Just to let you know that the Mission Planner had a hard time detecting my APM version, took a few times. Then when loading .36 it failed during A
Read more…Hey everyone, recently I've been working on a second Arducopter because I lost my first one in a terrible crash :( I am using standard arducopter frame with the standard jDrones 20A ESCs and the 2830 850kv motors. The only parts recycled from the fir
Read more…I was running AC 2.0.33 and today I upgraded to Mission Planner 1.0.36 and then upgraded the firmware to 2.0.36
The after the firmware was uploaded, the verify continually failed.
I then downloaded 2.0.36, compiled it and uploaded it using Arduino ID
Read more…Hi all,
First a little background.
Ive been using ardupilot for a while now. I had the original working well, and had flights out to 9km with great success. But then I updated the software and had to start all over. No problem I thought, a good excuse
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