Although I've been monitoring this website for a couple of years, I've refrained from joining because I simply don't have much time to participate in these projects. Here's a major problem of mine which I need to overcome and the problem involves cre
I know a lot of us try to extend the range of our links with better antennas, more power, etc., but why not try to extend the range by putting our antennas up higher?
(please excuse my horrible artwork :P I'm not much of an artist, but I think it gets
I have been making rapid prototypes in plastic plated with a layer of nickel all over the part, the reason for doing this was to improve the material properties of the plastic to make it stiffer and stronger. I also wondered if this could be
Hi dear members of Diydrones. Im interested in this address and forum for a long time. I have read some of your posts and articles. For my final project i decided to built an UAV, and my instructor accepted it.The problem is i have never deal with ai
I have seen the extended guide on building an ArduPilot but how does the ArduIMU differ. I've looked up IMUs and they seem to work using accelerometers and gyros. Doesn't the ArduPilot already do this? I got interested in ArduIMU after watching a tal
Hello, I am having a problem figuring out how to set my three position switch on my transmitter to turn on and off the auto pilot. The transmitter is a DX7 and the receiver is an AR9100 spektrum. Can anyone point me in the right direction on the setu
I came across a website with freeduino, and as far as i can see its 100% compatible with arduino, and from the pictures it also looks 100% the same as arduino? So whats the point of it if its the same thing, just a different colour? I was just wond
Folks - meet "Controlling Access to Stored Information" - US 6,370,629, and a snapshot of my brain in 1999 when I filed it originally. It is the culmination in a process which produces non-repudiated controls as di
I am an amateur rocketeer, the problem i have (apart from motor malfunctions) is getting the camera's and altimeters back without them being dunked into the sea or getting up a ladder to pull them off a chimney pot.
Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone can post some sort of guide to the UAV Dev Board. Also I read in this article - http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/a-newbies-guide-to-uavs that it doesn't support GPS waypoint nav, has this changed?
I'm considering buying a Predator from Verticalhobby but I don't really now what engine I should use. I'm not all that interesting in flying this by my self since it is supposed to be an autonomous vehicle in the future. I'm looking for something pre
Hi! I'm starting work on an unmanned boat, idea is to comb an area in a fixed pattern for some research work. Any ideas of a good autonomous computer? I would need to be able to update waypoints mid-trial, hence ardupilot does not look like it will w