I am looking into it for a totally autonomuos plane.Here are some questions from a total newbie so please be paitient :-)My plan in the future is building the hardware itself from scratch. but for now I want to get a "hands on" experience with this b
Read more…Well i bought an ardupilot main board about a month ago. And i have been fooling around with it for a while now. I am trying to get the ardupilot to give my r/c crawler throttle and steering comands and i know that the stock code was written for a pl
Read more…I've been looking through the posts and I haven't been able to find a UAV platform (with batteries, motor, and motor controller, don't need RX/TX) for under $150. Even the Easystar without the RX/TX is still $192, with the higher powered motor. Does
Read more…Hi. I bought this PPM encoder. I have connected it to a Futaba 2.4GHz FASST R6114FS. I use a 10ch TX. The PPM encoder seems to only output the first 6 channels. I have scooped the PPM output, and I can only see 6 channels.Is'nt it compatible with fut
Read more…I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, but I have no clue as to the answer, and I've been thinking about it for a while. I live in a very hilly area with plenty of cliffs, and could an ardupilot controlled uav possibly crash by flying into a hillsi
Read more…Hi people,I am new to all of this subject, I have been reading for quite a while now though.I am wondering, very hypothetical questions out of pure interest before I even start considering a build:As you run the ground station on a notebook, can I ru
Read more…The IR stabilizer is cool, but seems limited to daytime only flying. Would this work instead?http://www.chrobotics.com/CHR6d.phpThanks,Tim
Read more…Hey everyone! I'm pretty new here so I'm not sure if this is feasible, but I'm just toying around with the idea, and I really want to hear what other people think.Is it possible to have some sort of beacon that I can set down, say 1/2 km from the lau
Read more…Just assembled my second ardupilot.Program upload appeared to work no errors reported but there was never a "Done Uploading Sketch"reportedPower led solid, MUX solid , no gps, Status flashingSomthing wrong????Loading easyglider246
Read more…Hi, I'm currently doing a project to build a low cost flapping wing survailance robot, the robot is control using remote control.I having hard time to find it since my project is building low cost robot, most of the online store quotes more than few
Read more…I've read through the excellent UAVdev paper on DCM for tracking rigid body orientation, and I'm gradually understanding it. But I have some big questions. It seems that the best reason for using DCM in place of a Kalman filter is that it's much ligh
Read more…I am planning to buy an IMU for a quadrocopter project. Since the IMU is an expensive sensor, I would like to be able to reuse it for when the "ArduPilot Mega" becomes avaialble. Could anyone tell which would perform better and which would be more co
Read more…Hi folks,I'm just getting into the "drone" aspect of this. I was into robots for a long time, faded out, and into RC foam airplanes. Now, I'm trying to merge the two a bit. I built a fully flyable Predator-esque plane, for foamboard that flies great
Read more…<< 1st message and 1st mistake : I was posting in Chris Anderson's blog !! Repaired by this new discussion ...>>Hello everybody.First, felicitations for a such interesting forum, and happy new year 2010 !I am a futur new 9DOF-razor user, from France.
Read more…Is there anyone working on using the wii nunchuck and motion+ as an IMU for a plane? I see that the nunchuck to arduino code exists, and I've seen that the arduino DCM code exists. I haven't, however, seen a wii-based IMU for a plane. Is there some r
Read more…Hey, I'm trying to mod the Multiplex Easystar and put a FPV camera in it. I don't want to spend all the money on the full UAV thing, but I want to have a home arrow and the battery life displayed on my screen. Can anyone tell me what I'll need to get
Read more…I'm working on my next UAV. Since I'm not planning FPV flight with this one I'm using a 6 ft Tellemaster with power in the nose. I was wondering if anyone has any numbers or ideas about how much friction loss can be tolerated in the pitot tube withou
Read more…RCGROUPSI've finished stage one of a project that allows you to plug in any USB HID compliant device and output to ppm. More information on the RCGROUPS link.
Read more…Hey ,Ive been keeping up with the forums ever since i found this site (very cool and informative),Let me introduce my self , Im a student currently in his 5th year of CSE ; We have been asked to work on a project over 2 semesters. I'm really keen on
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