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I was wondering if any DIYdroners' were interested in trying to arrange a meet-up / flyin in the UK - worldwide members welcome of course! The meet-up would increase the sense of community and give members a chance to compare notes, share ideas an
Currently working on an AHRS for my netduino tricopter and can't decide which accelerometer to go with, either the BMA180 from bosch http://www.bosch-sensortec.com/content/language1/downloads/PI6828-e(1).pdf or the well known ADXL345 http://www.analo
Read more…Having no RC background, I hope to get some answers on the following questions.
-How is the RC receiver powered in the Arducopter setup when following this . Is the receiver powered through the APM?
-I read that you have the choice of powering APM &
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Hi All,
I am a total newbie...
2 weeks ago I met someone who uses an Autopilot. Since then I have been reading (daily) about what's on the market and what the systems do, but I have not seen one in action.
I want to install a safety net to return my r
Read more…I recently purchased the GS407 with the adapter from DIYDRONES. As the Arduino Mega doesn't come with the EM406 connector, I decided to use the 4 breakout pins instead (Ground, VCC, TX and RX). I am trying to receive raw NMEA data from the GS407 but
Read more…I've been recording the NMEA output from a MediaTek MT3329 GPS with the DIYDrones firmware, and I noticed that it seems 'pinned' when in a stationary position.
Most GPS receivers wander around as the many small errors in GPS cause some natural drift i
Ok i know quads are ta-sexyness but whats the word on the arducopter helicopter version, i mean i dont see anyone talking about it on top of that i dont see any other heli autopilot systems... i mean is it that the helicopter version is still very fa
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Good day,
I am a forester from Northern Ontario Canada. I have been following Mikrokopter, and arducopter more recently. I am looking to plan a winter build. I am a GIS and remote sensing tech guy, with mission planning experience. I have used ful
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I bought a couple of these for a project where I'm just using them with an XBee to send GPS info. While the default mode will work, I'd much rather change it to something more suitable. Unfortunately, it appears that the NV RAM has been wr
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Hello DIYDronians,I've been following the site for many months now, specifically the ArduCopter and related projects. With pretty much no experience in RC flying, helli's or quads I decided to jump in head first and build my own quad frame. Though I
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I am basically starting off from where my seniors left their projectlast year. At the moment I have a 6 channel RC helicopter with GPS andGyro modules attached to it. My target is to design/develop a remotemobile station for the control of this UA
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I am designing a QuadCopter based on the ArduPilot and just wanted to check that the ESC's which I require do not have to be I2C? They can be just standard off the shelf ones (PWM?). The I2C is a future feature, right? - I have seen some comments
After turning myself inside out trying to find out what is wrong with my APM setup i finally realized that my ATMega328 chip is fried. Fortunately i have a spare APM so i will still be able to take part in testing. :)
My question is how this could hap
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I currently have a hbk3 it has a 6 ch remote can i use it for my quadcopter project?
Read more…Just noticed that
Nitroplanes' has a flying prototype of the RQ-11 featured on a pair of YouTube videos.
Model appears to be a final test version, as they've created copies of plans and other
packaging details which would only exist if they were plann
Read more…I have currently implemented a kalman filter to fuse gyro and accelerometer data on one axis of rotation to obtain a good estimate of the angle with respect to ground.
I followed this guide --> http://tom.pycke.be/mav/71/kalman-filtering-of-imu-data
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