Just joined this forum and midway through my very first build. I am putting together my quad with Naza M V2 flight controller, 4 Turnigy Multistar 2213-980 kv14 pole Multi-Rotor Outrunners and 4 DYS BHeli30 amp ESC's.Trying to bench test the system
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Anyone has a good explanation why the area of a polygon created on QGIS is different at the area calculated on MP?
Also, there is a simple way to export directly the waypoints to QGIS?
Cheers and Happy New Year!!!!!
BQ
Read more…Hello, everyone. I am sharing how to connect Benewake TF LiDAR to Arduino.
May this helpful.
Step 1: Hardware Connection
The linear order for the LiDAR products of our company is defined as: red +5V, black GND, green
TX, white RX; the power supply
Check this link to see detailed item
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14577
Read more…Just dropped a scratch built flying wing from a high altitude weather balloon. Here's quick vid of detaching at altitude.
The glider did the right thing and managed to land on it's own at the target landing site, but while looking at the logs I realiz
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I am an amatuer UAV pilot and I am an aviation insurance broker as a profession. My involvement in the UAS industry has contributed to my father's interest in drones. Since I fly DJI products, and he has not flown at all, neither of us have exp
Read more…I have an AMP 2.5 that I am playing around with and would like to know if there is an archive that has docs on the board? Specifically, pinouts but any docs will help. Thanks.
Read more…Hello, I would like someone to help me know how I can build a rc boat using pixhawk to perform bathymetry, I have seen that there are boats that do this work, and I would like to know how to do it, what parts I need, what they are called and where to
Read more…I use an antenna tracker that tracks my apm2.6. I know that now that you can make them so you just put one APM on the tracker and one of course on the craft and it tracks it.
Does anyone know of a phone app that can do the same thing? Like a friend fi
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I'm trying to get data from sonar which is connected to "TELEM2" port of pixhawk by serial communication. However, my sorce code doesn't work and I can't see data which is sent by sonar.
My settings are
hardware: pixhawk(it connect to compu
Read more…Hi all, I am new to the forum and about 2 months into a rather large x8 copter. I flew a flamewheel quad to get myself familiar with the mission planner and general drone flying, as i am a fixed wing pilot of 20+ years. Has anyone run a large jeti sp
Read more…I am getting cant locate node error while running mavros
roslaunch mavros px4.launch
ERROR: cannot launch node of type [mavros/mavros_node]: can't locate node [mavros_node] in package [mavros]Hello,
I have a problem with automatic takeoff in MissionPlanner version 1.3.49 build 1.1.6410.20232 with the PX4, version 3.7.1.
If I run with the given 2 m/s, the engine starts but only with about 30% power.
This is of course not enough power and the
I built a copter for a friend, who was out flying a mapping mission in auto. Just prior to the last waypoint the chute deployed. After reviewing the logs I cannot determine why the chute deployed. It looks as thought the copter is flying just fine an
Hi all!
I've read this interesting paper on autonomous lidar-based flight (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492361/)
And I was wondering:
How it is possibile to connect a mini-pc (intel Nuc like) to a DJI phantom 3 ?
Has anyone achieved this
Look at this Cute LiDAR, TFmini, tiny yet powerful.
Check the video for how to using it with your drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkGo-JpxZ0s
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I am trying to get my flight logs together ready for my CAA renewal and it looks like i havent got any record of my UGCS flights within DJI nor Airdata. Now i am missing several months of logs!
Is there any future compatibility between DJI and/or A
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LiDAR and RADAR remote sensing are some of the most common remote sensing techniques in use today. LiDAR uses light rays or lasers to send and receive signals while RADAR uses radio signals to send and receive signals to and from an object. But what
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