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UAV with FPV and sill camera

Were working on building a UAV with first person video and the ability to take still shots from a 8mp camera.Before we get into the camera setup I have a few questions regarding the UAV portion.We are using a predator B as the aircraft with FMA co-pi

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What is classified to be a UAV?

I do most of my RC aircraft scratchbuilt, i have a 3oz stripped down camera i use for AV but i dont have any FPV equipment or GPS equipment. What exactly is UAV?Is an Rc plane, piloted by an rc flyer, with a camera on it a UAV?

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FMA FS-8 malfunction

ok i just about had a fly off yesterday , was finishing 45 min duration test , flipped switch to manual mode and added throttle and banked to turn towards myself , i soon lost all control of all surfaces and throttle. i only have rudder going through

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UAVP Problems

I have a Quadroufo, with 3 ADXRS300 Gyros, ACC, Boro, Compass, and I'm having a little bit of a hard time getting it to fly level. I use the Beta 3.15 of UAVPSet, and have set the Parameters as the 3.14 manual said to.It tries to fly as level as woul

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PDA for UAV

I have looked around the internet and found a few things on this but nothing really on any UAV applications, so I figured I would post an idea of mine and see what everybody's thoughts were.I was looking through the options on buying all the hardware

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Alright.... Still Lost.

A couple of weeks ago I asked how you guys would stabilize and navigate.Chris Anderson said FMA-Copilot and use the rudder to navigateI must say first... FMA rocks, keeps it extremely stable, there might be a tiny amount of elevation loss, but overal

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Noob curious about DIY drones

Hi,I sort of ran across this site by accident and it really caught my attention. I can't say that I'm interested in building one myself, but am curious to know if its realistic for me to build one. I've browsed through the site but am very confused o

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Using a satellite Modem

I would like to say thanks to who ever started this webpage because about 3 years ago this page would have really helped me and some of the other engineers at my college that wanted to get started in this.Anyways, I wanted to ask something that may o

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AUTONOMOUS ROBOT HELICOPTER

Hello people this my first post in the forum , i needed help from you experts regarding a project which iam interested in building, i want to make an autonomous robot helicopter which can have some basic abilities for obstacle avoidance and complete

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quadcopter help

Drone componentsHello, I am building my first quad copter and wondered if anyone could recommend any specific motors and ESC for my project? I have a may pay load of around 2Kg. I am also looking for a microprocessor and gyroscope which would be suit

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first time quadcopter project

Hello, first of all I would just like to say I am completely new to all of this flying business! I am a university student studying robotics and wish to built an autonomous quad copter/drone (not sure what there supposed to be called) for my final ye

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