I dont know if this is best place to ask these fairly beginner questions. I have been spending the last few weeks reading though and understanding the autopilot code as best I can, and also learning lots about micro controller programming as I go al
Read more…I was just looking around at the procerus website and was just wondering why their ublox gps receivers are so much more expensive ($325) then those that we can buy from sparkfun, or the diydrones store? for less than 100$? (when they are in stock :P)
Read more…Transmitter
'pic16f690 and PBP Joystick 38400baud only transmit 900 bytes/sec,30 servo pulses a sec.
'GPS is also transmitted from plane on same xbees 500 bytes/sec 2.5hz of GPS data
'xbee 900 38400baud, transparent mode,broadcast,RO=0,MT=0(broadcast mu
Read more…I am building a medium sized UAV that I need to be able to reprogram in flight. I will admit, I really dont know anything about how these auto pilots work and so I will be needing some assistance from all of you. I will be running on board long ran
Read more…Hello people!
I want to make an UAV but because of the components i want to use i neead a really low current consumption. So i was thinking, what if i take out the RC receiver and make the control using the XBee Pro 900. Meaning: using the XBee for te
Hi there,
I have a question. Looking at Honeywell Micro UAV specification.
http://www.defensereview.com/stories/honeywell/Honeywell%20Micro%20Air%20Vehicle_Data%20Sheet.pdf
I don't understand why is the rate of climb speed slower than the airspeed. isn
Had a few flights this morning with v2.5.01, things went pretty well and I had my GPS logger with me so was able to log the flight. RTL worked fine and AUTO sort of OK too after some tweaking, not using autopilot throttle yet and I've changed the fol
Read more…I created very simple setup to track the speed and altitude of my RC plane.
On the plane: In addition to the AR500 spektrum 5 channels,
XBee pro 2.4 connected directly to ublox 407 (RX,RT) they shared a regulated 5DC power source. power by a separate 3
Read more…Looking to become UAV / UAS pilot.
Have private pilot lic / IFR cert.
Currently working on commercial cert.
Many hours on computer based sims & video games.
Several yrs exp flying RC planes.
Scheduled to take UAV training in 2 months with 2nd RC Flight Tr
Read more…I want to use the ArduIMU+ Flat to control a pan and tilt servo kit, and integrate the Ublox gps. However, DIY Drones sells the Ublox with ArduPilot ready preprogrammed. What exactly does that mean? and Would i need this for the IMU+ also since it's
Read more…Hi all,
Bascom source, Eagle files, and more at http://www.mcselec.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261&Itemid=57
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Hi,
i want to ask that will we start flying our uav in any direction and it will get oriented toward the starting point automatically or we have to start through the starting point.
Read more…I'm looking at the Prosilica High resolution CCDs and all of them are 802.3 or Firewire based. What can I use to connect the camera to for downlink? Should I connect it to an onboard wifi card of some kind or a mount an entire router on the RC plane?
Read more…I just got my ardupilot, but noticed something wrong. Next to the 8 pin square chip I noticed a lop sided black component. I touched it and it fell off. After comparing to the image in the manual, it appears there was nothing there in the first place
Read more…I've noticed in the new manual on the wiki (http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot/wiki/SolderingBoard) there are two jumper cables connected on the bottom instead of just one, can someone explain why there is the need for two of them now? Will there be
Read more…Hi folks,
this is a newbie question about a datalogging version of a ArduIMU or ArduPilot.
For my glider I want to have some datalogging of GPS data, acceleration and gyros logged on SD-Card or something else. It is also possible to send all these data
