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ARDUCOPTER - Newbie / noob FAQ
I have colected some newbie questions that i made in various posts around.. maybe it helps others like me to save time....Answers from Jani and others, If you have a basic question and answer... please post.> What are the recommended batteries ( for
Read more…I2C connection
I am in the process of changing my ESC's from ppm to I2C (I have modified 4-30A Turnigy's).
Do I need to add some pull-ups to the I2C lines from the oilpan or are they fitted already?
Peter
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Another noob needs advices on batteries and Tx/Rx for an arducopter
Hi everyone.
I 'm new to the world of UAVs, and I want to build a quad-copter. An arducopter seems to be perfect to begin, and I plan to buy the kit when the pre-orders open again. I know quite a bit about electronics, but this will be my first contac
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Battery
hello people. I'm still a beginner n building planes could u plz help me out with batteries.I need to know what 20C or 30C in a LiPo battery mean.., Please suggest me which is the best one to go with.
Photo & GPS synchronization
Hello!
I´m looking for a simple way to synchronize the GPS logger and the camera. I´ve read about synchronize the camera clock with the GPS clock but I think, that this is very tiresome, because toy have to syncro all every fly.
Is there any possibi
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All done!!!
Ahhh finally done here she is all built up.... My bird Ver. 1.0 =))
All my parts.
This is how I distribute power I stack a couple of these guys. I grooved out the edge of my tray frames to run the wires around.
Completed frame.
And here she is all stuf Read more…
Arducopter + Xbee/Zigbee
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone tried to build a remote control that uses an Xbee[1] instead of Radio Frequency to send movement commands to the Arducopter. Me and two friends are interested in building one, could some one point us in the right direc
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Can RC gear and XBee use 2.4Ghz both?
I've read the APM manual
"If you have 2.4Ghz RC gear, you should use 900Mhz Xbee modules."
Is that mean one's frequency will interfere another when both in 2.4?
but I send an e-mail to my teacher
he says that 2.4Ghz RC gear can hop frequency to avoid int
Confirmed (and solved) Error in mtk library with atmega 328
I tried to compile the example of the mtk library included in apm to use it with an arduino 2009 for my purposes (not apm)
it return this error
arduino-0018\libraries\GPS_MTK\GPS_MTK.cpp:58: error: 'Serial1' was not declared in this scope
I tried to eli
Is my ESC not compatible?
I'm using a thunderbird 18 amp ESC with a dx6 with ar6000 receiver.
When I throttle down yaw right nothing happens.(i held it for more than 2 seconds) The esc goes into some sort of programing mode when i retry it. When I Yaw left then the back moto
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Help needed: choosing IMU for tricopter.
Hello all,
I am trying to build myself a tricopter. My soldering skills are close to non-existing, so I have been looking for an already assembled board. The ones I
found here in Europe, are the arduIMU v2, CHR-6dm and the two Razor 6DOF resp.
9DOF IMU
ArduCopter pre-orders
Hi everyone,
I was excited to see the pre-orders up and while i was making sure i'd got my radio gear and everything ready to go the pre-orders were taken down again, so i missed my chance :( do you know when you will be taking orders again? Has the
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Altering Source Code to fit airframe
We are working on a senior design project at the University of Arizona Department or Aerospace Engineering. Part of our project utilizes Ardupilot, and we are trying to figure out how to (if its even possible) tune the code to fit a specific airfram
Read more…Did I blow my outputs?
Hello,
I got to the point in my first quad arducopter build where it came time to load the code, exciting!
With everything connected, (including ESCs) I proceeded to power up the board via USB.
The dim LED struck me as kind of odd, but at this point I
Read more…MediateK GPS power supply problem
Hello Everybody !
not very lucky this week :
I have just received my brandt new GPS Mediatek 3329.
I have soldered it on its dedicated board (the one with battery)
- tested with FTDI 3.3V : no problem. It has perfectly worked. I have updated its firmw
Read more…Questions about my project.
Hello, i am new at DIY Drones, i have been mostly active on rcgroups FPV forum,
I am currently working on my Twinstar II project,it is working great with the current gear but i want a simple RTL system.
Here is what i have.
Twinstar II Brushless.
Turn
Read more…UK ArduCopter parts advice
Hello.
This is my first venture in RC so have doing quite a bit of reading on the boards. I'd like to purchase most of my 'copter components from the UK to avoid import tax and duty and was wondering what people thought of the below setup:
Items a
ArduPilot 2.7.x software on ArduPilotMega board. Is it possible ?
Hi, All !
ArduPilot software on ArduPilot board works well. But I need more R/C channels to control. Can non-Mega ArduPilot software be run on ArduPilotMega board, especially with non-Mega ArduIMU ?
As I can suppose, the first thing is to set "Arduino
Power supply for battery charger
Ok I am sure this is a total noob question, but I would appriciate some advise.
I bought a Turnigy Li-Po Battery Charger and I noticed the product page says that the power supply is not included. I assume this means that thoes nice little aligator c
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