I'm building a medium sized drone (wheelbase 600 mm). When I spec'd the motors/props I went for an 8S setup as this appeared better for flight time (thrust per amp looked best for the motor size I was looking for) and keeping the current down seemed
Read more… Mechanical single channel LiDAR is pretty common in our life, but two problems cannot be neglected, i.e. short service life and high price due to the rotating measurement mode.
CE30 launched by Benewake, a solid-state LiDAR with large FoV. It cou
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Does the pixhawk have to be connected to mission planner for you to fly in loiter mode?
I appear to be unable to arm my copter when there's a fast flashing green light. I get a amber light come on briefly. HOwever everytime I connect it to mission
Read more…I've just completed a quadcopter build using a Pixhawk2.1 with the stock power brick provided. I've verified that the battery monitor displays the correct voltage, but I have no good way to measure the current -- can anyone tell me the correct amper
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I'm using 3DR gps module for my ground vehicle project. It has Ublox LEA-6H-0-002 gps chip. I connect the module to my PC, and the U-center shows that the output is in UBX format. But my micro-controller can only deal with NMEA 0183 sentence
Read more…Selling a MicaSense RedEdge 3 multispectral camera for CAD $3800. Original purchase was over $6K. Comes with access to MicaSense cloud account where you can process and manage data. Also comes with calibration target, SD card, original case and wirin
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For a research I'm doing, I would like to use a quadcopter to land on a glacier (but a crevassed area, a kind of no-go-zone ...) in order to leave a sensor for a few hours before flying back to me. As I will be far away (but still in the
Read more…I have a newly built 450mm quadcopter (approx. 850 grams, not counting battery) that is about ready for its maiden flight. It's equipped with a Pixhawk2.1, and I've calibrated ESCs, magnetometers, accelerometers, etc, and everything looks good.
For t
Read more…Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or Drone is a kind of pilotless aircrafts getting command of wireless remote control. UAVs have a wide range of uses, low cost, good cost-effectiveness ratio, no risk of casualties, strong survivability, good maneuverabil
Read more…I am a controls engineer, studying aerospace controls systems and I have been in a lot of confusion lately...
I come from a purely academic background and I have very little-to-no experience in implementing control schemes on real systems. Like for ex
Read more…Hi, i am an enginiering student working on a project about drons.
So i need to upload a waypoint text file file.txt to my pixhawck and i need an script to do so.
how can i do this ??
i can connect to the pixhawck using pymavlink but dont know the code
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I am not new to drones being a commercial user, but I am new to the idea of building my own. I suppose this kind of post has been asked many times before and I hope it isn't overlooked because of this, I have spent plenty of tome reading on this f
Read more…We now have an official Drone Hobbyists Club in SW Missouri. The Ozarks Droners Club is for drone enthusiasts in the Ozarks area including Southwest Missouri, Arkansas, etc. and is based in the Queen City of the Ozarks, Springfield Missouri. We'll be
Read more…I bought it several days ago at hobbyinrc, first time to test it, drone works normally now, but worry if it affects flying for a long time.
Read more…I changed LED propellers for DJI Phantom 4, but heard that it affects drone's balance, and smell burning when fly long time, is it true?
I tried fly several times, it works as normal.
Do you have any experience about led props?
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I'm very new to drone building, and have set myself a challenge of creating a twin motor fixed wing plane. I will be using two batteries, and as the title suggests, two motors and hence two ESCs. For this purpose I decided to purchase a PDB
Read more…I am using APM 2.8 with S500 frame kit, Multistar 2216 800kV, Turnigy Plush 25A ESC, Frsky Fsi6a TX, RX
The motors run ok when connecting everything to mission planner for testing. But when USB is unplugged, the whole setup does not respond anymore, t
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I have 3 identical drone with pixhawk, at the factory settings and one of them, when I arm my engines in position mode, takes off alone. Is there a parameter for this?
And when the drone lands, it is difficult to detect the ground, so it takes of
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I'm using the gimbal ARRIS cm3000 (SimpleBCG32-Alexmos). I'm practice the wiki of ardupilot which is about gimbal connection --> (http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-simplebgc-gimbal.html#common-simplebgc-gimbal).
During the BaseCam Sim
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