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Pixhawk 2 and minim osd

Hey guys been having issues with the pixhawk 2 and the minim osd. We have tried serveral times to get it to work but all I'm getting is the mode change coming up on the osd. But the battery warming and the horizon wont work at all.

We have tired to up

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Compatible boards

I'm looking for a small board (Rpi-size) that will run Dronekit AND has 4 real hardware serial ports.

I don't want to use USB->RS-232 converters, or bit-bang the pins.  I need 4 real, hardware UARTS. 

And it would be a bonus if the RS-232 ports were 5V

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Pixhawk Mini RC Passthrough

Hi,

I have a Pixhawk Mini powering a hexacopter and I need to pass through a couple auxiliary channels. Six of the main output PWM channels are going to the ESC's, but I want to get two more PWM channels on 7 and 8. I have AUX1 and AUX2 set to Channel

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Double quadrotor in AirSim

I am working on a project that uses two or more quadrotors flying in chain-like formation, one following another.  My questions is How to create more quadrotors within the same level in AirSim? How to use the APIs to control each quadrotor separately

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How to test a new propeller?

Hi, I calculated a propeller that is very much like the one by da Vinci, except it has the airfoils of hummingbirds. I own a little quadricopter of mine and would like to try the propeller out. The problem arouse when I contaced shapeways, since they

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Pixhawk or Pixhawk 2.1

Hi, I am trying to work on a good autonomous drone to build and at first I wanted to use the pixhawk 2 except its very expensive. What are the upgrades from the pixhawk to the pixhawk 2 that would make it worth 200 dollars more. Should I go with the

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Two GCP

Hii Guys :

         is it possible to use two GCP at the diffrent places for an aircraft? first point will be take off and main control point , secondly point take place 10 km over the main point, the aircraft should be land second point then take off

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Quadcopter wont lift off the ground.

Specs:
450 frame
3506 360kv motors
Pixhawk 2
10*4.5 propellors
2200mah 3S 25C wolfpack battery
20 amp wolfpack ESC
Avionics RCB 6i TxRx-6 channel

This is my first build. I bought these motors thinking low KV will give me lots of thrust and longer flight time

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Arduino Nano to APM2.6

Hello everyone, first post here.

I am trying to control the FlightModes with Arduino using a potentiometer by giving a PWM signal to CH5 of the APM2.6 @488 Hz. So it works fine up to here. Here is the simple Code

void setup()
{

TCCR1B = TCCR1B & 0b11111

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