I have been following the online instructions for putting my arducopter together. I have my arducopter about 75% finished, but i am struggling with something. I cant seem to figure out how the board is supposed to power up without the usb plugged in.
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diid somebody tried to use an APC220 in place of the xbee shield and module to calibrate the quadCopter ? Would it function or not ? Seems to be the way to go for a wider range (1km) ! No ?
Thanks a lot for your answers !!!
Nicolas
Read more…I am working right now on Designing and building a ground control station for smaller rc type UAVs. It will be a handheld device with a video screen to downlink the video feed from the plane. There will also be a joystick to control the movement of
Read more…Can somebody specify the lipoly C battery range spec of the arducopter. Thanks.
Read more…A much improved version of Palentier, the open source aerial mapping software, is now available.
The new version has an improved interface and a slew of bug fixes.
Palentier processes aerial photographs collected from Unmanned Aerial V
Read more…I've been flight testing my Arducopter since Christmas with excellent flight performance (RC2 firmware) but mixed results for the Gps hold function. I finally tracked the issue down to my MTK GPS resetting itself while running the September firmware
Read more…Just got a Panasonic Lumix (cheap re-furb on eBay) and impressed with the lens/picture quality.
Does anyone know of an electronic trigger for a Lumix that can run from an RC Rx output?
Ron
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I've been doing more and more aggressive flying as I'm getting use to the sticks and I notice that as I do dramatic swings that when I let go of the stick it continues to fly in one of the directions I was swinging in. Like the gyro is confused as to
Read more…I changed the motor and ESC. Now when I power up, motor out0 runs full tilt with no control.
Did the 157 MUX fry as well?
AARRGGHH...
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I have an "old" golf gps which i dont use anymore and i was wondering if it might be possible to use it with Arduino? It is a Magellan/Thales D12 V.4 GPS as shown in the picture. Pict #2 is the pcb of the golf gps with a lcd on the other side.
Here
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I got my new ArduPilot Mega board this week and it has already the Atmega 2560 on it.
So how do I get the ArduCopter RC2 code on that board ?
I already selected the right board type
This is the error message Ill get when I try to upload the c
Read more…The failsafe setting, when it says "come home in AUTO, LOITER" I presume that it mean it will ignore all other waypoints and just come home. If it flew out of range & entered into the failsafe condition, once it comes back into range, will it not see
Read more…Hey people, I have a quick question and I hope anyone experience can help me......
I have assembled and setup everything with the ground control system GCS, RC receiver, ESC, servos, etc. When the onboard xbee is connected, the servos are twitching s
Read more…How do I back up MTK 3329 firmware it? I can download to upgrade the software, but there is no backup
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot/wiki/MediaTek
May I ask who can provide the following MT3329 5HZ 38400 firmware it? Thank you very much。
I have u
Read more…My Arducopter RC2 turned off all four motors at about 100' up today, and plunged to its death with no rotors spinning.
I believe there is a software bug or misguided feature at the root of it.
I was using GPS Hold to pin position, and the Arducopter
Read more…Hello Good Day Eve or Morn
Shane if you find this and are already on board with Jeff A. and others on the LGS welcome
If not, lets get up to speed up to speed.
To all others; welcome
to be sure input and colaborations will be invited and needed.
This
Read more…Hi everyone,I've written a patch for APM that allows for the autopilot/IMU shield to be placed in any arbitrary orientation relative to the airframe. The patch (based on current trunk code) basically contains the code to add Euler angle offsets to th
Read more…Hi,I am going to test flight a funjet with the APM, are there any suggestions for PID settings for the first flight with a funjet?Thanks.
Read more…I killed my one battery. I have ordered others, but they are not here yet. They are 11.1v Li-pos
I have a 12v power supply that can supply 10A +. Can I run the system via that till the batteries get here?
Read more…Hello everyone, I need help. I've been building a quad using the Arducopter manual and forums as a reference. I am no expert, but I do have some experience using ArduPilot Mega/IMU on several planes. I have also built and flown a Tricopter, so the
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