i'm currently working on an object tracking drone project. I'm using a raspberry Pi as the companion computer and pixhawk as flight controller. I'm using a baud rate of 921600 since at other baud rates, i'm getting garbage values when communication i
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I have 3d printed myself a T4 quad.
I mistaken the back for the nose so I positioned the gps and flight controller to be pointing towards the back.
Because of the all the cabling is now too short and there are connections that have to be desoldered t
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I have installed following on the RPi ( not on ground computer )
When I login RPi and I query mavproxy it can connect b
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I have a basic flight controller that just uses IMU data to stabilize my copter. A friend suggested to implement MAVlink, and it sounds like a good idea, but I am not sure what I can gain from it. I might be able to use a ground station s
Read more…i`ve seen a few video`s on youtube of drones carrying people, some have petrol or gas powered engines and some have electric motors or some type of edf motor, i`m looking to design and build a quad to carry about 150 to 180kg in total with both pilot
Read more…Hello everyone, I have to post this here and will gladly move it accordingly. I have had all of common problems associated with take off crashes and ave read through countless wiki pages and youtube vids. This is my current situation I went through a
Read more…I have a piece of countryside property on which I would like to set up a camera turret. I want to be able to see and follow night time critters so I need it to run all night. I want a camera turret and not so much a drone so that I can mount enough b
Read more…Which open source or commercial software can generate DEM’s of lidar point cloud?
Read more…I need to extract contour lines from a large point cloud. Can someone recommend a good software (open source or not) that can do this adequately?
Read more…So a couple of months ago I built my first drone. The components are / were:
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I have bought my first drone for a computer science project, and am struggling to get the transmitter to talk to the flight controller. I am using an f550 hexacopter, pixhawk mini v1.0, Flysky FS-i6x tx and flysky ia6b rx.
Using qgroundcontrol
Read more…Have a brand new Pocket Drone. Does anyone want it for parts?scot909@earthlink.net
Read more…We are looking at producing a 50% scale model of a multi-rotor design we have seen online, but even at 50% scale its still going to be 180cm long "H" format frame with 6x 24" props.
My question is..... Which autopilot would you suggest we use on such
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I have a problem with my drone (which I am building).
Practically when I arm the engines the number of laps, set by me on cleanflight, is 1060uS. When I move the throttle lever (transmitter futaba t8fg) the number of revolutions rises dramatica
I’m looking for a software that can simulate conditions such as wind, temperature and ice in a point cloud of a transmission line.
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I have been working on this flight controller since october (on and off) and had my first real flight yesterday. I use a teensy 3.2 that has a KINETIS K64 Cortex M4 without FPU at around 100MHz. I use platformio for compiling and flashing
Read more…I have a Pixhawk running the latest firmware and if I give it min or max aileron or elevator stick for about 2 seconds it disarms my hex while on the bench. Can anyone enlighten me on what is going on? I certainly can’t fly it this way.
Thanks for a
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I have basic knowledge about drones and I have tried making my own by 3D printing the frame and putting all the parts together. I have receiver set for PPM and my controller is Naze32. PDB is there and a hobbymate bLHeli 2S - 4S E
Read more…Hi, this is my first time posting in the DIY Drones forum, but I have been a previous user of Ardupilot based drones.
I've been working on an open source project called the Thanics Halo drone, and I'm looking to see if electronics/drone/programming ho
Read more…Hi all, bebop 2 in a great drone. It's specs are truly impressive especially with the current price tag. But it has one substantial downside. It's not foldable. after numerous searches on the web I came up with 0 solutions or ideas. As I'm not a dron
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