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
Read more…Hi all and happy new year...!
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
Read more…Hi, I received my APM, APM IMU, UBlox gps and assembled the APM's correctly.
I loaded the Ardupilot mega ver 1.0 software with no problems, hooked it up to Happy Killmore's GCS and can see my position on the google earth map and my altitude and tilt &
Read more…I have two transmitters on my plane already. A 900Mhz 1000mw, for photography downlink. And a 2.4Ghz Piloting downlink.
(I'm using the Scherrer LRS system for control, 433Mhz)
So the question I need answered is if I can use my current transmitters wi
Read more…I have a JR9 channel and R921 receiver. I know with helicopters you can set the throttle speed you want in case of loss of radio contact so it doesn't fly away. Can this be done with the arducopter also so that it's set to a speed that would not lift
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expected constructor,destructor,or type conversion before '(' token
hello
when i try to verify ardupilomega firm of the 27 dec i have the two first lines in y
Read more…Hi i just recieved my ArduPilotMega IMU Shield and in the packaging was 3 resistors i have not been able to find where they go does anyone have any idears
also i got the magnetometer and have loaded the latest APM software but i cant see where to en
Read more…Apologies for my first post being a plea for help, but I've run into a (figurative) brick wall with my copter build - I've been putting the bits and pieces together for a while now, but I now pretty much have everything I need, so I'm in the assembly
Read more…Ok. I followed the directions and found the following
1)Unplugging the USB radio causes a blue screen/Mem dump in Windows 7
2) Drivers do not install.
In XP Drivers install, but the config software is locking up.
Any body else played with these?
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In the section :Connecting your RC equipmentI have read the following line :ArduPilot Mega gets its power from the RC system.But how does it do that.When I have my USB connected, the board is powered on and servos do move.Once I unplug the USB cable
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I have a MaxStream wireless modules and they have serial ports.
I would like to use MaxStream wireless modules instead of the Xbee wireless modules
Below are serial port pins info :
DB-9 Pin RS-232 Name Description
1 DCD Data-Carrier-Detect
2 RXD Recei
Since I build my arducopter, most of the time after I connected the battery the quad can't fly immediatly.
The symptoms are all props spinning when giving throttle, no reaction when doing pre flight tilt, only two props turn, ...
I just have to reset
Read more…Is there a simple formula for working out the lifting capacity of a quad based on engine and prop sizes?
Read more…Is there a PDF version of the IMU schematic online anywhere? I am looking for info on the ports labeled AN0 - 5 on the end of the board. My goal is to add both digital and analog devices but am not sure that these are the pins.Thanks In Advance.
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i have a serious problem with the new code. With the Alpha code and a code from the pirates everything worked pretty well. Yesterday i switched to the new RC2 code from this site and a big problem occured. I loaded the code, get everything
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