Hi guys...hoping someone out there can help me out. I'm trying to help a high school science class. The task is to put autopilot on a small RC car, which we've managed to do. The second, more challenging task is to return (at the end of the route) as
Read more…http://diydrones.com/photo/img_2216-1Can anyone identify this Drone for me, does it have a name ??Also are there any plans around for some one like me to scratch build one.Last question any rough dimentions of this beast.Any other plans for any Drone
Read more…Will this adapter work for connecting Xbee modem to ArduPilot?
I recently became the owner of a TI MSP430 based RF development system as a give-away at a seminar. I have augmented it with the TI RF amplifier for greater range.TI use a proprietary communication protocol, but it is on the regular 2.4GHz band. I am
Read more…It has occurred to me that an accelerometer could be used to null out the lateral acceleration in a turn by aileron control The bank would always be optimal.I have not seen this used as a simple control mechanism, and it makes me suspicious that it m
Read more…This is old news for most of you, but not everyone received the memo.There is a maximum safe pulse repetition rate of approximately 40 pulses per second for the most common PWM servos. The uppper limit arises because of the pulse stretcher circuitry
Read more…I have been working on some navigation formulas and below you can see the results running in a small simulator i wrote. The algorithm makes the plane follow a line between two wayoints by minimizing XTE in a PD-loop. If the angle to the target WP is
Read more…Hi AllI have one of the old ardupilots which I got before the 26th of Jan, not sure if this will effect anything. But on power up of the board the following happens: All the lights of the board comes on then the power light stays on and all the other
Read more…Just out of curiousity, I do not quite follow the choice of the external 16MHz clock. In essence this means if you are using the HS setting in FOSC your CPU will be clocked with 4MHz (FCY == FOSC / 4). So your only real choice to get decent CPU perfo
Read more…I thought this site might be of interest:http://www.ajoka.comHere is an example of one particularly small wireless camera:http://www.ajoka.com/Wireless_Camera/smallest_wireless_camera.htmand here is a picture:
A while ago I posted about Sparkfun's UBW32 board. After a lot of reading up on the processor and reading some code samples, I finally have a (sort of) working rudder controller.In keeping with the spirit of this site, I'm attaching the project files
Read more…Has anyone seen RCPowers.com? On the front page there is an F-35 VTOL foamie that has an awesome partial hover controlled by the on-board gyros. I am seriously thinking of getting the plans for this one when he finishes it. A VTOL function would be g
Read more…I need some help locating monitor for for my UAV. Can someone help?. Thanks, Joe
Read more…This is forum for teams that will be participating in the FIRST Robotics League aerial robotics demonstration in Atlanta on April 17-18.
Read more…Hey guys,Was wondering if anyone knows if the FMA-Copilot works with the Spektrum DX6i Tx and Towerpro SG90 servos?Thanks in advance
Read more…I am interested in buying an ardupilot board and attaching it to my rc plane. However, i have no programming skills. What programming skills are necessary to have a successful UAV flight with an ardupilot, a GPS module, and a stabilization unit?
Read more…Hi AllI've been thinking of a few ways to use the FMA co-pilot for the AP I'm building.Do you guys think it will work if I put a digital potentiometer (I2C or SPI) connected as a voltage devider in the line coming from the infrared sensor.The idea is
Read more…Hi Guys,I'm new here, but I've been working on a project, part of which will be a autonomously guided parachute. The idea is to drop a payload under a parachute, and have it home in on specified GPS ground based co-ordinate. Steering will be done by
Read more…Please excuse my ignorance but I have been itching to ask this question/s for some time nowWhy does Ardupilot and bills development board both specify EM 406 GPS receivers? I have been looking at what is available and there is quite a lot on offer.Wo
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