Has anyone out there in APM land been able to successfully log GPS data? I am logging several messages succesfully, but the GPS message always comes back with zeros in all its fields.
Read more…Just finished building my first quad. I custom built the frame with 1/8" ply, 3/4" square alum tube, and a glad ware container. It hovers very nice and smooth. BP18A ESC's, BP2217-9 motors, 10x4.7 props, 2x 3s1p 2100mah packs, custom power distributi
Read more…I am working with a group of student that are having trouble getting the GPS to lock and the blue light to stop flashing. The GPS came from Sparkfun so we changed the baud rate of the GPS and got the GPS to work in UBLOX. When we plug it into the v
Read more…We are two (may recruit more) students of computer science and robotics, considering a helicopter-based (or other VTOL aircraft) UAV for a robotics competition in the fall of 2011.
Funding is limited to our own economies - no external support. The pro
Hi chaps,
I now have around 1.5h of flight time on my Skyfun with APM + MediaTek + Airspeed. So far I am very impressed, but I have a question about the default loiter altitude / height. I guess altitude as I am 100% GPS based for altitude measuremen
Read more…Palentier is an Open Source software that was originally created by me and a good friend (M. Stange) for processing aerial images from un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like the MikroKopter. Palentier can process aerial photographs into georeferenced
Read more…We recently tried to load the code on to our ardupilot board and received the following error:
Does anyone know whether a kind of Collission and Object Avoidance system exists which provides avoidance signals to the AP which enables the UAV to really fly autonomous by avoiding any static and dynamic obstacle on a pre-determined flight path
Read more…Should the GPS data show up in the logged data file as well as the telemetry stream even when flying in non guided modes (e.g. manual, stabilize, and fly by wire A)? My logged GPS data is always just zeros, and the GPS data does not appear at all in
Read more…I have just tried to upload RC1 to a new APM/Oilpan combination and found the only way I could do this was by reverting back to the libraries included with the Zip rather than the latest libraries. It came up with errors in APM_ADC otherwise.
Are the
Read more…Hi All,
Had a Perfect flight today with very repeatable results. Very happy.
I have attached a a kml of the programed flight plan, the actualy flight in kml and the log downloaded from the APM.
Im running fairly high navigation gains and lower roll gains, a
Read more…Hi all
It seems that there is a great lack of small and light solutions to capturing video from fpv and uav flights. I've been doing a lot of research on the possibilities and really find capturing the received video on the ground lacking. Especially
Read more…Hi,
I tested my ArduPilot today. My Clouds Fly is controlled by Elevator and Aileron with no Rudder.
Stablize, FLY by Wire and RTL modes were all in good order. Then I uploaded a simple route for Auto mode as here:
However, it could not fly in a
Read more…Dear friends of DIYDrones
I just recently got the UAVdevBoard V3, I got very exited when it arrived. Unfortunately I've been having some troubles to upload the MatrixPilot firmware. I've been following the PicProgramingGettingStarted manual and apare
Read more…Well, after blitzing my 3rd servo while testing (learning) my BlimpDuino card I finally figured out a good way to attach the big gear to the servo.
The problem has always been that the Lego gear is Lego specific and never fit nicely on any servo.
The f
What would the normal min/max 'debug sensor input' values be, I'm getting +60/-60 for roll and pitch, is that correct?
I decided to use the Parkzone T-28 as the initial plane for my APM. I picked it beacause it is a straight forward 4 channel foam plane that fits in my trunk assembled and it has a huge removable canopy. I am going to move the tail servos to the fus
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