Thought about this on the way to work this morning.
In-House drone with video + audio recording, also with speaker.
Someone calls your home, and the drone flys to your location in the house, and sends video + audio out while the drone speaker gives au
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I am trying to track down the changes from APM release 2.1.2 to 2.2.0 [1].
Some of the checkin comments do not make much sense to me, maybe someone could further explain the following ci comments?
Hi,
can anybody give me some information about adding a second aileron servo on channel 5?
I can not use a Y-cable because of the direction of the second servo.
Thanks
Frank
sorry for my bad English...
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How are people setting up thier radios when flying traditional helis using arducopter? In the setup it says to use Airplane/Acro mode, and connect channel 3 from the receiver into the ardupilot and then use channel 7 to connect directly to the ESC.
Read more…Hi everyoneI noticed that there is an optic flow library AP_OpticalFlow. Where is this being used? Is there an optic flow sensor being used. Is there a link to some documentation on this?ThanksSrinath
Read more…All,I was flying 2.0.33Beta this morning in Stabilise mode, and had a backflip. The machine is stock, the connectors are all soldered and I'm using foam to try to minimise vibration.I have attached the log files, and wonder if sdomeone could shine so
Read more…Is the default altitude AGL or ASL (absolute altitude)? If default altitude = AGL this could explain why I keep gaining altitude while in FBW_B and AUTO.
Could someone also give me a description of what Energy/Alt PID adjustment controls or changes a
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Firstly is this the correct place for discussing traditional Helicopters? I only ask as I seem to remember when I joined DIYD there was a Topic called "Traditional Helis"
A little about my self. I am a RC Heli pilot and love everything about fly
help please my gyros dont send data or send erratic data like errors, i probe varios firmware versions and varios software calibration and nothing !! what can i do !!!
Read more…this sentence means that it yaws to one side or rolls/pitches on one side?
Read more…I am consistently only breaking or cracking the propellers on the left and right side of my arducopter which are the ccw propellers. I have cracked 7 ccw vs. cracking 1 or 2 of the front and back cw propellers. I would like to be able to purchase pa
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It appears that MavLink.cs use a custom SharpKML that accepts System.Drawing.Color instead of numerical values. Is there source for this modified version?
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For beginning of the story see here :
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/ppm-encoder-problem-loosing?commentId=705844%3AComment%3A462572
I've finally received a 2.4 Ghz receiver and transmitter system.
So i did measure PWM outputs on channels 1 and
Read more…I ran across this board from Gumstix and wondering if anyone has been playing with it:
http://www.gumstix.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=262
Looks like a 9DOF IMU with an Arm Cortex M3 (LPC1769) microcontroller to me...
Thoughts???
R,
C
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Don't have a good name for it yet, but my plan is take an existing R/C truck and using the Arduino Uno, some acoustic sensors, gps and a compass make it navigate an obstacle course.
So far:
I've take the truck apart and I believe I have located the H
Read more…In the manual for the ArduCopter Helicopter, it recommends mounting the magnometer components up, pins forward but every other reference has it mounted components down, pins forward. I have installed my magneometer as recomended via the Heli manual,
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I just posted a new experimental version of Arducopter with new PIDs and control laws for Yaw. It's download only for now and I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you can rigorously test it. Please be careful. I've flown this in Stable, Simp
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I am into rc planes for something like 25 years and I have seen quiet some bad injuries with propellers in the past. Unfortunately I do not understand much about electronics, I am a software developer.
Could I put a switch on the PWM wire between
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I have a hawksky and have fitted APM with Xbees to it, I've loaded the most up to date version of APM and the mission planner and have noticed the following.
If I connect to APM using the USB port and view the flight data on mission planner, wh
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After a long wait, my APM+IMU finally arrived (took a snail mail pace after Chris A delivered it through rabbit express ... thanks Chris). Successfully loaded the 2.33, calibrated my radio and the accels through APMPlanner.
Now its time to calibr
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