The instructions say to cut a 6-pin male header for the ultrasonic sensor, but there it seems to need a 7 pin header (and 7 is what the picture shows.
Read more…Hi all,I am flying for two years now my UAV helicopter. Its equiped with the Carvec autopilot system. This gives the helicopter full autonomous flight. Next to flying the helicopter, its also stabilizing and controlling my onboard Sony Camera.The cam
Read more…I wondered if it might make sense to support both text (as it does now) and a "raw" TX method for the ArduPilot. With the "raw" mode you could save a few (possibly a lot as a %) bytes per transmission which could mean a faster rate of messages and le
Read more…I bought a new Ardupilot 328 boards and connect showing on the photo and I run 1.0 code and test code,But no matter how i switch chanel to control CTRL the mux dosen't work ? I don't know why??
Read more…I am curious if anyone has been able to transmit video through the radio modem itself. I have been doing aerial photography from UAS for over two years now but have had a seperate video transmitter and telemetry and radio control. Th eproblem is I us
Read more…I notice you mention the FMA sensors will be available in the diydrones store "mid june" - was that based on the late May shipment date on the FMADirect website? Did you guys get a bunch from that shipment that I'll be able to buy here, or we both no
Read more…Hi peopleI have this plane (http://www.mirax.cl/detalles.php?codigo=10153) with a Ardupilotversion 2.0.1, no Z sensor.I put some waypoints in the waipoints tab all with the same altitude (25 mts),but when I actuvate the autopilot, it does the mission
Read more…Has anybody tried controlling a Radio Control Car with the Ardupilot? If so how'd you go about it and were you succesfull?
Read more…I was going through Jordi's code and he talks about multiple "tabs". I've used Visual Studio (C#) for a couple of months, and have wanted an IDE that will let me do something similar with my Arduino, particularly with Jordi's code. But how do you do
Read more…I'm building a UAV for a project. I have decided to buy the Attopilot for the autopilot system. I'm very new to R/C and i'm not sure what all to be looking at in terms of power supply, R/C reicevers, servo's and so forth. Can someone please help?Than
Read more…I'm considering buying the Attopilot autopilot system and i'm not sure what and how many batteries to buy. Can someone please help?Thank you
Read more…Hi, anyone have it ?i want get one but only if it could be possible use it for UAV/FPVany one know how difficult is to hack it?http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/gps-receiver-usb-adapter-for-computers-netbook-laptop-umpc/
Read more…hi all!1.how should i interface fv-m8 with pc, what all i need to buy along with fv-m8 to get the data displayed in minigps or gps locator utility. circuit diagram is appreciated.2.i am using avr atmega8 microcontroller for extracting data from fv-m8
Read more…I wondered if anyone had tried hacking a cheap bluetooth GPS receiver? There's no lack of them on eBay and with a bit of tinkering it should be possible to disable the bluetooth portion (in case of 2.4GHz interference) and find some kind of serial bi
Read more…I have noticed that several posts discussing different capabilities seem to use the same pin locations on the main board (e.g. ArduPilot Shield and wireless telemetery).If a configuration utilizes the ArduPilot Shield can the system still support wir
Read more…I've been working on some UAV stuff and thought I would share a little bit about I'm doing, and also see if anyone would be interested in getting together and working on a joint project.My end goal is to do a solar-powered, high altitude, high speed
Read more…When i first running test code the ardupilot(with out connect to gps) was very hot!! .and when i connect to gps 406A the gps is not lock and the servo control by transmitter and turn to a little right ,GPS LED blinking ,mux off ,stat on ,power on was
Read more…I'm totally new and unexperienced here, so forgive me for acting like a fool.Has anyone ever heard of UAVs acting like barking dogs to manage livestock from the air?I can see highly manoeuvrable RC blimps (eh, http://www.hyperblimp.com ) gently pushi
Read more…I am trying to build a quadcopter using an arduino duemilanove board and a 6 DOF Atomic IMU from sparkfun. So far have got stuck on how to get readings on my arduino using the Atomic IMU. Can somebody pls tell me how to talk to my IMU. PLS help faaas
Read more…Hey everybody!I have planned for a project with my school for my final year. Basically the idea is to make a 4 channel transmitter (3 axis+ 1 throttle). It would be tilt sensing, and the throttle would be a trigger like the trigger on an Xbox360 cont
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