While I am a teacher at a local high school (Cypress Bay) in Weston, FL, this summer I presented an idea to a small group of motivated students to build a UAV.We were initally motivated to begin this project by Chris Anderson's awesome video from the
Read more…Some people have been having issues uploading to their ArduPilot while the GPS is connected. I did some investigating today to determine where the issue may be.I did a quick simulation of the circuit that turns the GPS on and off. This is a rough app
Read more…xbee,s do not have the range for the project i am working on. wondering if anyone has tried these. they are advertising 40 mile range with high gain ant.
Read more…I am starting on a project that will: make an RC car follow a transmitter that I can carry in my pocket, and stop one foot away from me. I need to know if ardupilot will let me do that or if i will need another board. If ardupilot can be used with th
Read more…Hi everyone,Can anyone provide me good links where i can learn to implement gps. I searched in google a lot but didnt find anything. I need info on stuff like how to interpret the latitude, longitude, heading, readings and use it to tell the UAV go t
Read more…www.aerialrobotics.eu/altigps/altigps-en.pdfwww.aerialrobotics.eu/altigps/altigps-it.pdfWorks as a GPS translator or standalone.17x28mm.the output is ASCII, NMEA or binary.Contrary to the other solutions, this is the ALTITUDE SENSOR, not just a press
Read more…Hello all!I have been hunting along internet for topics related to GPS guided boats without any results. Then I found ArduPilot. I got very excited about this hardware.For familiarizing myself with ArduPilot, I've planned of building a simple boat th
Read more…Ok, so the more I've been thinking about it, the more I've realized that the current Ardupilot software would take more effort to change for my particular needs than just patching together my own code. Maybe I'll integrate the two at some point, but
Read more…I'm starting to assemble an EasyStar. I understand that the attopilot xy and z sensors can be used. Are there any configuration changes needed in the ArduPilot code to support these sensors?Thanks in advance-Walt
Read more…Hi, allI have read William Premerlani's theory paper several times and a lot of it is beginning to soak in, but I must be missing somthing in my implementation.I am trying to keep an accurate view of earth-relative pitch and roll angles on an embedde
Read more…I would like to use Ardupilot to control a 4WD RC ground vehicle. How to I modify the parameters and configuration to just use a GPS for navigation?
Read more…Hello all,Still new to the hardware and software. Does anyone know if the ArduPilot 2.x is capable of near vertical flight profiles? (approx 70-90deg)Considering using it for a rocket propelled aircraft that would have a near vertical flight path fol
Read more…Hello everyone! I would like to start by saying that this is a pretty sweet website, and what you guys are doing is awesome. I was hoping my first post on here would be a contribution, but, unfortunately, that is not going to happen.So I am trying to
Read more…I read about some ArduPilot, lets see:Attach the ArduPilot inputs to your RC receiver with female-to-female cables (alternatively, you can cut those cables in half and solder them in the ArduPilot holes, making permanent "pigtails"). Input 1 should g
Read more…Hi!I was reading ArduPilot 2 Manual and I read this:If you have 72Mhz RC gear, you can use 2.4Ghz Xbee modules. We use Xbee Pro wireless modules with a Adafruit adapter board on the aircraft side, and a Sparkfun USB adapter board on the ground/laptop
Read more…Please pass on your thoughts, ideas, feedback or experience on my plans.I live out in the hinterland of New Zealand and hence there are not many people around to bounce ideas off. I confess to being less interested in the electronic / auto pilot side
Read more…Hey UAV homies!I have some hardware laying around that might be interesting to someone. Its an FS-8 receiver (ch 54) with crystal, the horizontal and vertical sensor, and manual. the button calibration panel is also included. I removed this from my d
Read more…First off thanks for all the hard work on this. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say you guys are awesome.A few things about my setup so far...I have all of the items for the shield excluding the connector for the xy&z sensors.I have not connected servo
Read more…Hello.I want to make a simle UAV without autopilot.Can i do it.I just want to have a real time video(at about 1 - 2 km range) and rc range(at about 1 - 2 km).If i can control my UAV with laptop it will be great.I'm waiting for replies(and can you giv
Read more…Hi guys.It will be great if someone write how to make UAV step by step ( maybe in a video)and can the laptop replace the rc control.I mean can I control UAV via laptop only(without rc controller)I'm from 14 year-old boy from Bulgaria and I apologize
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