I have 6 months off work due to a medical condition and I'm creating a drone. 2 years ago I built one over the summer with an arduino and a bunch of components. I used an H Frame design out of aluminum C-Channel. The design worked well until I crashe
Read more…Hello there!
In the last couple of months I dedicated some of my spare time to an old dream to build a drone from scratch. It's a 3D printed drone, using Arduino and a LSM303 (accelerometer) + L3G4200D (gyro). The props are nylon 9'', 30A Mystery ESC'
Read more…Okay folks... I need some help. I'm attempting my first quacdcopter build and I'm stuck.
Here's what I'm using:
I can c
Read more…I´ve recently bought the Eachine Flyingfrog q90, with the DSM2 receiver, and because I already have got the Devo 7e transmitter, flashed with the Deviation FW: devo7e - v5.0.0, I wanted to use it to fly the quad.
But the Problem is:
When I try to bind
Hi all,
I'm looking for a mini digital stabilized camera for my DIY quad.
The solution with a gopro and a 2D/3D gimbal is too big and heavy for my project.
My dream were to use a DJI Spark or Mavic Pro camera. They can be found relatively cheap as spare
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I've been through as many forums and webpages as I think I can handle but I'm getting nowhere.
Have a bit of a frankenstein drone in the making, mostly working but struggling with a few things.
I have the pingrx ADS-B module plugged into Telem2.
Read more…Hi all, I came across this document in an effort to understand how to control a rover over 4G. Does anyone know who wrote the article/thesis? I think it is from someone in the Camberra, Australian Area, if so is he part of this group? As I need a bit
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I am building a fixed wing drone and I am trying to send velocity commands to the flight controller (a Pixhawk) from an onbord computer (Nvidia Jetson TX2) running ROS.
the code I am using to send the commands looks like this:
ros::Publisher cmd
Read more…I have assembled this f550 clone with the following specs:
Hexacopter frame 550mm
2212 DJI 920Kv motors
30 Amp SimonK ESCs
APM 2.6 with AC 3.2
35C 5800mah lipo
I need to preface this with after my build was complete I loaded AC 3.2 with default PIDs for th
Read more…I would like to recommend you a tilting impetus suit which takes stability control of multi-rotor and high efficiency of fixed wing into account.
The suit includes of three parts:
15inches Carbon Propeller:designed for tilting fixed wing, owns optimal
Read more…Hello everyone,
I'm now working on this university project and I need to create (or possibly reuse) an android interface to control the drone via wifi through a mobile android phone. It needs to have pads like an RC controller and stream video (this i
Read more…Sorry I'm still a bit green when it comes to electronics and such. I installed a Benewake TF Mini onto my Pixhawk quad-copter and then opened Mission Planner. On connecting the altitude in the flight data read at being 5 feet above ground level.
Will
Read more…Hello guys i'm trying to write a code to do a real time compass calibration. it have been one month working on it and didn't find any result specially to calculate the error to stop getting data.
if you have a code in c# doing this please help
Read more…Hi, I am reasonably new at this and had a mishap with my quad plane yesterday. I am not at all proficient in the log analysis and would appreciate it highly if somebody with experience could look at the log and maybe advise me on what went wrong.
Firm
Read more…Hello friends
Pixhawk is beeping intermittently from ESC when connected with battery. for example you can hear the end of the video.
why do you say that and why?
Hi,
This is my first post and will be my first build.
I was hoping to use the following components to build a survey/mapping drone:
Platform:
https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-hover-1-quadcopter.html
Camera:
https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-map-01-came
Hello,
I am trying to connect Rpi 3 Model B to flight controller (Dropix) and establish communication between them. I am following http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/raspberry-pi-via-mavlink.html page.
I have flashed APSync image on SD card. When I try:
Hi,
This is my first post and will be my first build.
I was hoping to use the following components to build a survey/mapping drone:
Platform:
https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-hover-1-quadcopter.html
Camera:
https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-map-
Hi,
This is my first post and will be my first build.
I was hoping to use the following components to build a survey/mapping drone:
Platform:
https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-hover-1-quadcopter.html
Camera:
https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-map-0
