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Totally newbie

Hello everybody!!!For a few days i have been scanning all these interesting topics on DYI Drones, but i guess all this information is much too much for me to consume at one time. I wolud like to buy an totally automatic plane that i can programm befo

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Multiple Serial Devices

Hi,I wonder has there been any work on running multiple serial devices on the ardupilot. The SoftwareSerial library seems pretty robust and would be good for use with the xbee. This would allow the xbee to be used for telemetry and an uplink. Remote

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Have you helped a newb today?

Hi all, first time UAVer here. I'm trying to put together a stabilizing/navigation autopilot on a high school student budget. I can fly and I know a lot of model flyers, but none of them have ever tried autonomous; I thought I'd ask you guys to point

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Other Ardupilot hardware

Hi, I was wondering if there are other people who have used other hardware besides the standard recommended one. I was thinking...replace 1hz em406 with 5hz ls20031. They cost the same anyways!Forget the IR stabilization. Completely remove any IR sta

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EasyStar vs EasyGlider and v2.3

I am about to build a new plane for fpv flight and uav using Ardupilot.I have both an empty EasyStar and Easyglider foamy.Do I have more chance for success using the EasyStar, or there is no significant difference? I mean the Ardupilot firmware handl

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Basic Qu about the Locosys LS20031

sorry, i am new to this and haven't been able to work it out yetif i were to buy an LS20031, how would i connect it to my ardupilot board? looking at the pictures of it in its documentation i can't see any pins to put cables on or anything like thatt

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Expansion module UAVDev board.

I've been pondering the problem of expanding the number of channels for the UAVDev Board. I think it is possible to have eight input (radio) channels, four output (servo) channels, an altitude (pressure) sensor and an airspeed (pressure) sensor witho

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1.3 GHz Wireless Video packages

Hello all.Does anyone have any links to recommended 1.3 GHz video transmission packages, not from range video. I currently have the telemetry coming across from the arduino at 900 MHz so I was looking for something out of that frequency as well.If I

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Using Ardupilot on Blade CX2

Hello, i am a new user here. I will be coming here for information about the use of the Audupilot. I will also be posting pictures involving it.I want to experiment with putting Ardupilot onto an E-Flite Blade CX2. The Blade CX2 is the best selling a

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Airframe Designs

This is one of the most exciting things i have read in a while."All user-modifiable settings are in a separate file; enables sharing of configuration files for different airframes."Will there be more in depth instruction on this?

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right plane for the job?

Hello all,I am a electronics student and i have always been into aircraft. i have a large collection of pieces of rc helicopters and cars but however have never had a rc plane.I was recently given the link to Chris giving a presentation on the ABC(ht

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Help!!

Here is a picture of what my led's are showing. The amber led flashes very fast, the red led is steady, and the gps led flashes red. There is no blue led illuminating anywhere on the boards showing that it is getting a gps lock. Help please!!!

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Ardupilot uploading problems

I have my ardupilot installed in my airframe with the expasion board hooked up. Before I installed the ardupilot in my airframe I loaded the code as per instructed by the manual. The upload was succesful so I installed in my airframe with the GPS, pi

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