I am still working through learning all the various things that I have done wrong that are ultimately leading to issues with my crafts ability to hover / fly. I would like to make sure that my Turnigy 9X is setup properly as I am pretty sure that it
Read more…An article on DW from 27 Dec, 2010:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6375009,00.html
Those nasty little things with cameras will be used to spy on the neighbors and need more regulation!!
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I have recently built arducopter with following configuration
TX: Futaba 10C
RX: Futaba R617FS
ArduPilot Mega with APM
Media Tek GPS
Magnetometer
I having problem with Configurator Tool. When I enable magnetometer in stable mode and try to update it the
Read more…I was looking at the hexa frame beta here:http://store.fahpah.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=achxgrmv101Could anyone with experience with hexa setups tell me, is it possible to lift a DSLR such as a cannon 5D and maintain usable flight times with
Read more…I have a Dx-7 and AR7000 tx/rx system and iv been playing around with the settings on Dx-7 but few questions came to light and wondered who could help me .
1) can I program the switches on the remote to control other ch apart from the standard stuff?
2
From the US if possible.
I smoked a motor and only had the 4. Soo.. I am looking for web sites that ship product from the continent.
Why not China? I ordered stuff 3 weeks ago and it seems to have dropped off the map.
I am looking for 1050 KV and under
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I have spent a very frustrating day today trying to set up my Arducopter with the new motors (the optional 880kv ones from FahPah) and new Hobbywing Platinum ESCs. The APM was working fine with the original ESCs and motors.
The problem i
Read more…Hello, this is my situation:
I purchased a magneto from DIY Drones.
I soldered it on top of the IMU, calibrated offsets with IMU mounted on the copter.
Had my first flight and yaw was not still. So I cheched my magneto and on CLI and all I got were 0's.
Read more…Does anyone have pics or info on their camera setup with a pan and tilt system connected to the undercarriage of the arducopter kit? Any pics, info, stores to buy pan and tilt systems would be very helpful. Also info on mounting pan and tilt to arduc
Read more…Most other quadcopter electronics that I've seen require a "levitation" mount to absorb vibration created by the motors. How does the IMU/arducopter handle this? I read the wiki, and it suggests that the IMU/APM is bolted to the frame without any vi
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I just uploaded the ArduIMU_1.8.2 code in the received IMU V2 board with the user-modifiable options set to run with the demo programs on the bench.
I ran the demo program, during LEDs flashing with the board still for the initialization. The prob
Read more…First off thank you again to everyone working on this!
After months of set up and bad weather, I was able to get a few flights in today. I had good performance after making small adjustments to NAV ROLL I, Crosstrack Gain & Xtrack entry angle via APM
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After many weeks of not touching my APM equipped Skyfun, I hooked it up to my netbook today and loaded on the latest firmware dated (Dec 27) as well as moving from Arduino 21 to 22. I noticed the config.h had a lot less
Read more…Hi, a friend and I created an Open Source tool for georeferencing photographs taken from UAVs. It's called Palentier and is freely available at http://www.palentier.com
We have been revamping the software and updating it to handle more platforms. I
Read more…Hello everyone and Happy New Year.
I have a few problems getting my Arducopter to fly.
1. I run with a complete kit from DIYstore DIY drone kit.
ArduPilot Mega - Arduino Compatible UAV Controller w / ATMega1280
ArduPilotMega IMU Shield
hiii someone can help me?i want make a quadcopter with avr microcontroller is the brain (atmega168).,but i have a problem with kalman filter programing using C...
Read more…I down loaded the new code. Cleaned out the old code and unzipped the new.
Opened the Arudino uploader, pointed it to the NG code and it creates the text string to say the # bytes etc but fails to load.
<error>
Binary sketch size: 54816 bytes (of a 1269
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I'm having trouble getting the "Advanced Configuration" as described in the manual to work. It says to put the defines into the file APM_Config.h and then build and download. I do that, and then check using the setup | show command in the CLI and
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