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ArduCopter Health Beacon RGB_LED

ArduCopter needs life. it needs to be able to communicate with is pilot. Live information can be displayed to the pilot using colors and patterns through 1 RGB_LED. 7 easy made colors can be used to identify the state of the quadcopter. RGB_LED's can

kkMulticontroller

Has anyone tried to use the KKMulticontroller v. 5.5 on a quadcopter as described here:   seeedstudio

Are the Murata gyros as good as claimed?

what's the best SONAR to get for the quad (2.0.X)

Hey guys looking at maybe take the sonar plunge... 

It looks like it really helps the stability near ground so I am wondering what model to get...

What's the best one to use for our application?

Thanks! 

Quadcopter vs. Tricopter

I am preparing to build my first multi-rotor copter and my question is this... What are the pros and cons of Quadcopters vs Tricopters.  It seems most of the people on DIY Drones use quadcopters but people like David Windestall, also known as Dadde87

Arducopter 2.0.23

Added a fix for Hexa's. Expect better stability in flight.

Sonar test is now separated from Baro test.

Also 2.0.21 changed the Sonar hold trigger.  2.0.22 changed it back. 

What are votes for last second fixes or functionality? I'd like to release this

Six flight modes can be done without tying up two radio channels.

A tip for getting 6 flight modes without using up 2 radio channels on your radio.

On some radios (eg JR X2720 7-channel) you can mix the 3-position flap channel
with itself, rather than mixing with gear or aux which would prevent you from
using the gear

Arducopter- question

Is the RC equipment a must or can I control the quadrotor without it(sort of an autonomous quadrotor)?

Want to Mod an AR drone and use as a platform... need help

Hey all,

I am a student intern and I need to research a way to demonstrate an autonomous system we are working on. I (the company) currently own an AR Parrot Drone.

I was wondering if I could take off the current motherboard and replace it with Ardu

Expansion Port

Hi Simple question

when wanting to address a function to the AN6 and AN7 pin on the expantion port where can i find to what pin on the APM chip is AN6 and AN7 connected to ? i have looked on hte skematics and tried to tracy the tracks on hte Board ea

futaba t7c over Spektrum DX8

Hi newbie here looking for radio advice, does anyone on here have any advices on either of these radios for the Arducopter 2, I cant seem to make my mind up on these, I like the Dx8 because of the telemetry and additional channel but Futaba seems to

Arducopter- question

Do I need RC equipment to control my quadrotor?Can I calibrate my esc without RC equipment?

Could this be the end of servos as we know them

http://pcbmotor.com/pcbmotors-17/In the never ending quest for smaller and more accurate ways to control my camera mounts I stumbled across this device. With a possible resolution of 50,000 steps per rev. It's thin profile would fit very nicely insid

Planner MAVLINK won't connect

When I attempt to read or write WPs in Planner Mavlink, it won't connect.

Times out after 25 seconds, message says "Error : System.Exception: Data Received blah blah Might be waiting for GPS Lock...." But in CLI, can query GPS, reports Lat/Long, # sat

Take off and landing

Has anyone started with the automatic take off and landing of our arducopter?

Where Should It Go?

Grettings,

Referencing the included APM Planner screen shot and awesome graphics.

Scenario-

- Launch the plane in MANUAL mode.

- Switch to STABILIZE mode for a a minute or two.

- Switch to AUTO when plane is positioned as shown in the graphic.

Question

tubine quad?

would be that able to build a turbine quad, with arducopter hardware and code, what happens the torque effect? yaw control?

only 1 or 2 motors turn

I'm French sorry for my English.

I'm trying to fly since 2 months with my jDrones kit. I could not calibrate gyro wih the Ardupirate code  then I decided to download the Arducopter 2.x with APM Planner.

I downloaded every versions several times (2.02,

NAVIGATION QUESTION

I haven't tried the codes, but I saw that there are already a navigation system for the auv. Has anyone tried it? Is it working? How do we put the waypoints/destination to the program? Thanks!

ArduIMU yellow led is turned on

Hello i'm using ArduIMU board and i've programmed it. The compilation and upload is successed but, when the ArduIMU is "turn on",  the yellow led is turned on!

How to Automate Twincopter (Think Avatar) or Osprey Tiltrotor Autopilot?

I am interested in knowing if the group has worked with a twincopter platform and if so I would like to know how to setup the Arducopter to support this platform.