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I have purchased a separate BEC to provide the 5V supply for the processor board and the Radio receiver, rather than use one of the four that come with the motor control ESCs. The reason for this is the uncertainty that still seems to surround
Read more…has anyone tried something like that? i can imagine a lot using this to communicate, in eu we have fairly cheap unlimited data plans and it would be possible to transmit video and telemetry with almost unlimited range (considering a small time lag) w
Read more…Hi,Running APM 2.1 and the latest build of APM planner (according to update facilty in Planner).Xbees are 868s.Mavlink works great over USB but I get no end of exceptions over Xbees.The Xbees are working fine (they definately are connected and workin
Read more…Hello everybody.I am working with the matlab simulink for mine auto-pilot UAV.I need to know that how will i test the simulink on a X-plane software.I had used matlab10.1 with 3 axis accelerometer and gyroscope blockset along with kalman filter and P
Read more…After updating the Mission Planner and firmware to AC 2.0.2, still cant connect in the fly mode or "test sensors" mode (switch away from pin headers). Everything else is working (code upload, cli tests and setup). any hints what could be wrong? (hw/s
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Is there other way to save Home and Waypoint position on eeprom without through the Mission planner?
For some research reasons, I installed the modified Autopilot 2.6 on my Autopilot Mega board.
I've tried to same the Home through Ardupilot Confi
Read more…Yesterday I made a flight: Setup 2 waypoints: 2.3km from home and 300m in between. But airplane fly's 1.5 km towards waypoint 1, comes back to launch, fly's 1.5 km towards waypoint 2 and comes back to launch.
Very strange, there's also a very strange
ArduCopterMega.cpp: In function 'void medium_loop()':ArduCopterMega:596: error: no matching function for call to 'AP_Compass_HMC5843::calculate(Matrix3f)'/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libraries/AP_Compass_HMC5843/Compass.h:59: not
I have a doubt regarding the antennas. what decides the range of an antenna?is it the db or the input power. should the antenna signal be amplified before giving the signal to it. is the input signal power deciding the range. please clarify.
what an
Read more…After having some problems with previous version of Arducopter code (including ardupirates) i tried current, second version. I must say that im impressed, it flies quite well at default settings ! Quite, because i must solve 2 things, im flying only
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Quick question just want to find out if this is normal,
I assembled a APM 2560 kit ,have magneto, Media tek, airspeed kit attached
When downloading the code form APM planner everthing downloads fine and window says done,
when I go into terminal
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My question is in fact so simple but I don’t succeed to solve it.
In fact I have build in java a small application to send KLM file to google earth and then using google earth as a group station. But for the moment the display is so disturbed
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I was wondering if anyone has any tips for good PID starting values for 'copters with longer arms.
I decided to go down the homebuilt frame route with arms of length 50cm (18") as I wanted something bigger and more stable for some photography / p
Read more…Hey guys!I am building the arducopter with RC control and also have to figure out how to get wireless communication working so I can send mission commands via laptop and then eventually android. I know I can put the Xbee shield on it but from what I
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I'm still doing my research on building my first UAV and so far the Skywalker looks like a pretty good candidate but I'll be operating in high wind areas (like the tops of hills) in unrestricted airspace. I was wondering if anyone has play
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I have some voltage output probleme on the IMU pin 0 (As indicated in the attached picture)
The output voltage is 0.1 V!!!
Any suggestion?
Thank you.
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First, i'm from France, so apologize me about my english ;)
I ordered the APM 4 days ago, everythings works great but from day to another one, the APM doesn't want to boot (no led ABC blinkings..) so i made somes tests with arduino IDE and t
Read more…I have gone through setup and set my frame to hexa+When I arm the motors only 4 motors spin. The front and back motors do not spin. Also, when I tilt the copter I was expecting the motors to attempt to level the copter which they did not do. Help ple
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Atmel has recently released the new (blue) Xmega A1 Xplained board (29 USD) and plug on sensors ATAVRSBIN1 (Inertial One, 54 USD) and ATAVRSBPR1 (Pressure One, 24 USD). A few days ago ATAVRSBIN2 (Inertial Two, 54 USD) expanded the line of senso
Read more…I am planning to add flaps to the plane and wondering if I should just add it as an extra channel on the transmitter or should I incorporate it into the APM 2.1 code.
Would it effect the "stabilized", "fly by wire" etc mode flying, or APM would comp
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