Heya Amigos, I'm an archaeologist using aerial photography to document archaeological sites around the world. It is really inspiring to see all the innovation taking place here!I fly both blimp and kite aerial photography rigs and create 3D photogram
Read more…After many hours of research and invaluable input from people on DIY Drones, we settled on the Easystar with the Easyglider wing for our AP platform. We plan on modifying it to look something like the modification discussed here,http://www.rcgroups.c
Read more…I've never soldered or worked with bare metal before and thought this might be a good pedagogical project. I bought the a Weller WLC100 and some SchmartSolder. My first attempt I set the unit to 5 (max power), waited a minute, set it to 3, waited a m
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I'm new here, but I would like to get some help for my Engineering Capstone Project. I'm designing a UAV (about a 7-8ft wing span) I'm working on sizing and the propulsion and stuff right now which is the main part of my design project. What I would
Read more…How do you connect the Blox GPS receiver to the Ardu controller?. I can not find any wiring instructions.Antonio
Read more…Hi, I'm very new to the UAV scene. I was interested in buying a plane that would give me a flight time of well over 1 hour and still have a payload capability to support a camera,GPS, and transmittor (for video streaming and controls). It seems hard
Read more…I currently have a Seawind model that is remote controlled. I was wondering if anyone had any input as far as recommended components or methods. This project is difficult because of the autonomous water landing, which I am also interested in hearing
Read more…Hi. I'm fairly new to this whole fun, and think I need some help.I am using an ArduPilot with an R/C truck for learning. But I can't get the code to load at all, so learning the code side hasn't started yet.My set up:- ArduPilot (the red one).- An Em
Read more…For those of you who have read the comments in my other thread: http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/yadiya-yet-another-diy , I'm considering using two dual axis gyroscopes from ST Micro. I need a gyro for each of the axis: Roll, Yaw, and Pitch. So,
Read more…I was connecting the power for the Ardupilot on my aircraft when the power line slipped and hit the shield board and I heard a loud pop. :(Now I'm unable to communicate with the board at all. Whenever I try to download programs to the board I get the
Read more…Yet Another DIY Autopilot :)I've decided to go about making my own AutoPilot board from the ground up. Well, I won't exactly be starting from scratch - hopefully I will be able to incorporate the collective wisdom of this community :). I know there a
Read more…ok so ive searched the net with no luck well not no luck but not impressed by the prices that i see. so if any one can post me a site or three were i could find some good quality RC parts of all types would be helpfull
Read more…One of the biggest limitations I've run into with the ardupilot hardware is the use of functions that need to disable the interrupt register to do precise timing such as pulsein() or similar functions. Would the 1280 have the same issues?Have you guy
Read more…in the groundstation server screen data is comeing in good but the gps data is all zeros. im useing your ublox satelite adapter and your board to attach to the arduimu. i checked all my code and everything looks good but i cant get a lock. iv tried t
Read more…Does anybody know where I can find the specific value of the fuse in this transmitter. It is not mentioned in the manual and I can't make it out by looking at the fuse itself.
Read more…I tried uploading .hex code to the ardupilot board using avrdude but my efforts failed.The avrdude.exe and avrdude.conf file I tried was the one in the arduino0017 studio.The board is the new red Ardupilot.The cable is the diydrones ftdi one.The comp
Read more…I found this one, looks good but what price???
HiThis is my first post here and I landed here after searching the internet for my problem, hope to get some expert advise on my problem. So here I go:I bought an EM406A from futurelec in Taiwan. The module is working as expected except the data whic
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