Discussions

First time building a drone from scratch

Hi everyone,

I and a friend are planning to build our own drone for this summer but have no experience in building one. We are looking to build a small, simple fixed-wing type drone. Any advice on which materials, motors, and other parts to use and wh

Debug my drone to get it working for the first time

Hi,

I am glad to share my drone debugging experience with you all.  Take Z series agriculture drone as an example, before the first use, it is necessary to link the remote control with the drone and set the parameters according to your operation inclu

Why Flight Platform model: X6120 is so popular? About The Flight Time Test of X6120

With the development of technology, drones are widely used in Civil field, such as police officers, firefighters. And flight time has become one of the key factors to be considered.

X6120 as a mountable flight platform it is commonly used in training

DIY 350mm quadcopter

Hello and thank you for allow me to share my experiences with you. I am selecting my components and it's my first quadcopter. After some research I have the following components:

Frame 330mm: (160g)
Propellers 8045
Motor 2212 1400kv (192g)
ESC 30Amp Read

Issues detecting/calibrating 4525DO airspeed sensor

Hello! I'm having some trouble detecting and calibrating the airspeed sensor for a fixed-wing UAV I'm building. I'm running a PixRacer flight controller.

When on the latest PX4 firmware (1.13.3), I get an error “[cal] calibration failed: airspeed” aft

Shephard Unanned Vehicles Handbook 2009

I just recieved my copy of Unmanned Vehicles Handbook 2009 from the Shephard Group. Compared to the nearly $2000 Janes Defense wants for thiers, I think it is a good deal at $80.See pics below.

uav book 1.jpg

uav book 2.jpg

Need help completing a drone build

Hi there,

years ago, I had set on to create a drone from scratch - i was following a blog tutorial (https://blog.prusa3d.com/how-to-build-a-3d-printed-micro-drone_29310/)

I had soldered the motors to the main board tower (which consisted of the ESC + F

Dirt-cheap throwaway cargo drone

Howdy,

I'm looking for a design (parts list, assembly diagrams & instructions) for a dirt-cheap DIY quadcopter or octocopter cargo drone. 

Because of the environmental conditions that it'll be facing, it's not expected to survive more than a few flight

Book on UAV Sensors

Hello ,

I am looking for a book that helps me to understand how sensors for UAVs are designed so that I can design sensors myself . 

Can anyone please provide some suggestions.

Thanks in Advance.

-D

PIXHAWK CUBE NOT BOOTING WITH BENEWAKE TF02 PRO

Hi Everyone,I connected my Pixhawk cube to Benewake TF02 PRO (connected to TELEM 1) and it did not power up. I disconnected it and then powered it, it worked perfectly. Later when I connected the TF02 ( after it was powered up) it worked fine.The cu

Anybody know of an I2C RPM Sensor?

Hi,

   I'm new to the hobby (of drones, not R/C Aircraft).  I love computers and programming, so I thought I'd take on an educational project of making an autopilot out of a $35 Raspberry Pi computer. So far I have a functioning Mini Maestro servo con

What Are the Advantages of Environmental Protection UAV?

In some area, such as natural reserves, wetland protection, drinking water sources, monitoring of marine, drone is an emerging detection tools to help people work more efficiently.

Due to the large supervision area, inconvenient transportation and re

VTOL UAV for Security and Delivery

A surveillance drone is used by governments, private companies or military organizations to enhance security and defense missions.

The security and defense industry was one of the first to embrace drone technology, with the first military drones dati

Anyone sharing photos ?

Hi,

I would want to evaluate some software solution to create orthophotos, any of you can share some (small) set of nadir aerial pictures ?

Thanks

Presentation 30 x 40 mm Autopilot based on ATMEGA 1280 in an aircraft with 490 mm wing span

Hi all,

I would like to present my new UAV project based on the ATMEGA 1280 and Arduino language. On the autopilot there is the ATMEGA 1280, a 5V and 3.3V regulator, 4 low pass filters for the IMU, 4 connectors to motor/servos and connectors to the t

Custom Virtual Reference Station(VRS) System

Is there a service that offers the functionality to register RTK basesand NTRIP 
Casters and through a mount point, obtain the drone position and return an RTCM from a virtual base? 

I'm interested in getting this solution or developing it myself.

If I'

Pix4D Training Services

 Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the field of photogrammetry and mapping and I'm trying to decide on a mapping software. One of the applications I'm considering is PIX4D, and whether or not to sign up for the companies training and certification courses.
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Indian Army invites Garuda, an MS Dhoni backed Drone startup to provide its expertise

Indian Army is now looking to upgrade for Modern warfare and rising threat of cross border activities via drones

The emerging drone Startup of India – GARUDA AEROSPACE, is in news again .

MS Dhoni Backed Drone startup has been invited by Indian Army to

B/E red light

Hi,

I`m using pix32 v5 and there is a red blinking red led on the B/E (FMU), which i understand means that the pixhawk is on bootloader mode, how do you cancel this mode and get back to aa normal mode?

Thank you

PID Tuning

Since I didn't have a problem other than a little wobble when taking off in althold and loiter modes, I flew in a plan that I uploaded to mp in auto mode. It was a successful flight, but I think my pid values are still not very good. It wobbles a lot