I am a software engineer so don't have much knowledge of mechanics. I want to build a quadcopter that can lift about the wieght of a person say 100 kgs. I am thinking of to use a 125cc bike engine for power and gearbox for related speed change requir
Read more…Hi DIY people i just joined the community and i introduce myself
i'm Augusto from Italy and i develop and build drones by 2009 on Mikrokopter platform
recently i decided to move to Pixhawk so i'm starting to collect the informations i need
the first que
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My name is Sam, and I am currently an undergraduate intern for the University of Minnesota's Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department. My team and I have a quadcopter that we are trying to automate indoors, and I was hoping somebody from
Read more…Hi, I just need clarification. Say I have a T motor U10-100KV and according to the thrust table at max thrust with 30'' props I consume 32A of current. Then I encountered a build where it uses a 100KV battery with 80A esc. My question is, is it neces
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Read more…Hello guys. I have a problem. I have a t-rex 600 helicopter and a pixhawk px4 helicopter. When I change flight mode from stabilize to althold then the swashplate goes down to -3 degrees just like I have set the bottom range of the swashplate movement
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I need some good motors for my new Quadcopter. But I don't know what I need? I want a stable Quadcopter who is also relative fast. The Quadcopter doesn't have to respond that fast. So which motors are the best for a 450mm frame? How many KV are
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i am like totally knew to quadcoperts and just finished my diy S500 copter.
I managed to get it built and the apm2.6 flashed with Copter 3.2.1
Yesterday i went to the park to go for a bit of learning flights, just hovering, bit forth and back.. that
Read more…As away to both give back to the community and possibly pick up a few new subscribers at the same time, I'm giving away a crossfire Micro setup. Details in the vid:
(I'm not a commercial entity, I don't make money from quads, even my Youtube channel
The drivers for UAV Drones are rapid technological advancements in drones and increase in demand for drone-generated data in commercial applications are the key factors for the growth of the market. Further, the increase in venture funding propels th
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Wanted to know if there is any image recognition software (for UAV's) that can detect structural failure in a road or surface? Not looking for detecting damage created by natural disasters, more like heavily used roads that need to be repaired?
An
Read more…I couldn't find any information on how to operate a Sony Alpha A7 over IR from a home made source (arduino for instance) so I reveres engineered the codes and thought I would share.
I have an Airpixel commander and it is perfect for my UAV application
Read more…Could you please help me? I can not make configure as below. These are some error from "make configuration".
make: ../mk/apm.mk:3: pipe: No error process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, uname, ...) failed. make: ../mk/environ.mk:5: pipe: No error 'pwd' is
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I'm trying to build a drone for surveillance purposes. This is my first drone building project and my school thesis as well.
Basically my main problem statement is to create a web-based drone control mechanism.
I'll be developing
Read more…I am curious about vertical design. The designer must think more than the others. It's like a UFO not eventually.Such as:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1727015699/levetop-the-autonomous-folding-drone?ref=user_menu
Read more…I have a Pixhawk on a large wing so using elevons. I ran Autotune and it seems pretty good but about 25 minutes into an Auto flight I got a bit of oscillation. being elevons it’s more difficult to tell if it’s roll or pitch but it looks like roll to
Read more…I have a Pixhawk on a large wing so using elevons. I ran Autotune and it seems pretty good but about 25 minutes into an Auto flight I got a bit of oscillation. being elevons it’s more difficult to tell if it’s roll or pitch but it looks like roll to
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My 450 drone is flying and I have tested most of the autopilot functions. I have flown it with Mission planner on my laptop. Now I want to fly it with either MissionPLanner or QGroudcontrol on a cellphone. (iOS).
My Huawei P9 Lilte does no
Read more…What wires on a Lightware SF30B do I connect to the ADC plug on a Pixhawk ?
The Lightware SF30B can only connected to the ADC plug on Pixhawk, not the serial port because of speed factor.
Has Lightware gone out of business, their web page is not setup
Read more…Hello, I recently had a problem with a pixhawk 2.4.8 board, and all channels work, except channel 3 of the throttle, I have already tried several things and even then it does not work, try to go back to a previous firmware version and I do not work e
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