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:
Hi all,
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
Read more…Which software is able to display large point cloud datasets?
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I am wanting to build a fully DIY drone. I have an Arduino Uno and an Arduino Nano microcontroller, which I can use to write my own flight controller. I'm trying to keep this low budget for educational purposes. After I get a better unders
Read more…Hi I recently brought a DIY quadcopter drone of amazon and put it together and can't seem to get it to take off I was wondering if any one had any idea to why this is happening I would greatly appreciate it also I was wondering about the propellers i
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I am building a dual propulsion boat with PixhawkV1 ArduRover 3.1.1. SkidSteering INPUT = 1 SkidSteering Output = 0
I have my Failsafes (Radio/Battery/GeoFence/GCS) set to HOLD Mode, I was reading the documentation of HOLD mode there is a
I bought 3.3 volt external compass QMC5883L and add its library on Arducopter version 3.2.1
my hardware is APM 1.0, and driver header files located at here however when edit config.h and ArduCopter.pde to make instant of driver, in calibration process
Starting since a few weeks ago, I have been trying to calibrate my compasses and an unexpected error has popped up every time. I have tried this calibration on 3 different computers and 4 different types of pixhawk. So I am presuming it is a Mission
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