For a project, I am building a quadcopter that will navigate through hallways using vision and several IR sensors. I want to use the arducopter codebase to save time, although I need to come up with a way to send fly-by-wire commands to the quad fro
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after about 4 hours worth of reading and searching Youtube I found Chris Andersons Still camera image stabilization video witch is this one
This Version as Chris pointed out used a heli head holding gyro and drift was impossible to correct
Read more…Hi There,I wish to make one uav which can go to desired distinations/way points given, can do whole flight from takeoff to landing on own, can transfer images & live video to the base stations. Apart from this i want to know which hardware is used to
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I've purchased the ArduPilot and IMU board and the MediaTek GPS. Im in the first stages of getting things going.
The ArduPilot was pretty easy to download to, but Im having problems downloading the firmware to the IMU. I have followed the tutorial
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I need to build a circuit to use the output from a commercial headtracker like the Flytron DT-3K to drive 2 digital or analog servos DIRECTLY, bypassing the whole Tx/Rx paradigm.
Using the DT-3K system WITH a Tx/Rx driving the 2 servos would
Read more…I've been working on a HIL setup with FlightGear, APM and qgroundcontrol, as part of some prep for a 2011 outbackchallenge entry.
I've made a couple of minor changes to the trunk APM code that I thought might interest some other people. The patches ar
Read more…The biggest problem I see with many of digital cameras is the way they go into sleep or shutdown mode. I managed to score a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX5 which allows me to stop the shutdown in the settings. I can then use a manual shutter switch to take
Read more…If you go the balsa route for your frame, how do people protect the electronics ?
I've been thinking perhaps I could encase them in thick foam or something.
Or do you just pray you've gotten the coding right for the auto pilot ? =P
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Hi everyone,
I was thinking of using ardupilot mega coupled with IMU razor 6 DOF ( http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10010 ) just for stabilization on a tricopter, no gps navigation for now to keep it simple, it can be implemented later on.
Has any
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I have connected the APM to my quad following the descriptions on the site
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/Quad_Radio
and when i connecting the Lipo to the system, the APM does not powered on.
The receiver do turned on, and the APM do w
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There seems to be a lot off problems re-appearing when it comes to setting up APM, programming it and tuning it , Can we use this Discussion and list all the commen errors and ways to fix them and then maybe add a wiki link "Troubleshooting"
Read more…Spent hours at my local Hackspace last night configuring everything ready for my arducopters maiden flight. Got to the point where we'd done everything but we just couldnt get the arm/disarm to work (the green A light just flashed continously no mate
Read more…Huge milestone for me today. Finally got my new XBee units all talking and configured. Started HK GCS and got connected but I noticed that the model airplane is moving in the wrong direction when I move the IMU. I know the servo connectors should
Read more…Comm problems seem to be drawn to me. This time it appears to be an issue with comm between the GPS and the APM. I reliably get a solid blue light on the MediaTek, indicating GPS lock I believe, but the red LED (C) on the APM doesn't light up. I'm
Read more…Hi,Didn’t fly yet.On the bench, without props, connected to the ArduCopter configurator:When I'm starting to accelerate the motors the front and rear motors are not accelerating and running like the left/right motors. If I push the throttle at ones,
Read more…So I received my larger motors and 12x6 props today, and after the last crash I didn't have any more 10x4.5 props, so I put on the bigger motors and props.
I am using ArduPirates NG code, and I was successfully able to hover the quad in arco mode bef
Read more…So my quad is flying reasonably well, but I need some help with PID tuning. Is there a good post somewhere explaining how to go about adjusting the PID values to improve the stability of the quad?
See this video: http://www.vimeo.com/19506341
You c
Read more…I have been trying to get the code loaded into my ardupilot board. I have been using a shield with it but for some reason i can get the code to load without the shield, but not with it on. I think i may be unsure about how the power is supposed to
Read more…I am attempting to load the code to a Sparkfun main board, no shield (we have one but are in the middle of trouble shooting some issues). The load time took several minutes and at the end I received the following error:
avrdude: stk500_paged_write()
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