Hello. This is my first post with DIY Drones. I've been following the site for some time now and appreciate the community's strong involvement. I'm looking into building a quadcopter using ArduCopter firmware (latest) and having tilt rotor ability
Read more…I'm building a VTOL where the motors tilt down for forward flight. I see a few of these in the pictures. Would anyone be willing to share the motor mount/tilt designs in a 3D format ? My design requires them to be mounted on longitudenal tubes ( Proj
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I have a question about px4firmware for Pixhawk 2.1. As i see on the picture here http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/learning-ardupilot-introduction.html that there is nuttx under px4firmware, so that means nuttx is included already in px4firmware?
I ne
Read more…Hey guys I want to make a drone which can lift canon 80d and should be as small as possible any sugesstions for airframe
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I am new and need purchasing advice and if this project is possible.
I would like two helicopters, to fly and move around, with timing and spacial precision, in a room.
Looks like the software and hardware is available to do this, I just don't
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I was wondering how the ATT data (desired roll, roll, desired pitch, pitch, desired yaw, yaw) in Mission Planner flash logs are calculated?
I tried to get the same angles using the raw data from IMU (with a complimentary filter). What confused me
Read more…Hey guys I recently upgraded to latest arducopter on my Iris + and I was wanting to go back to the original Iris+ firmware. is it custom or is it from arducopter ? Also if anyone has the custom firmware could you please send it to me thanks ! 3dr sai
Read more…Can someone tell me What is the best material to use in making a hexacopter which can carry a payload of 15 Kg and can be used for an application such as fire fighting? That is, a material which can resist high temperature.
I had decided on G-10 FR4 b
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we live very close to the border and
i wish to buy a drone maybe phantom 4 but i heard about no fly zones so
i went to their nfz map and i found the borders are not included into nfz
even there are not much of no fly zones in our area so shou
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I've flown quad copters for a couple years now until several months ago I experienced a power failure up in the air and it came crashing down 400'. So now I'm looking for a new one and I was thinking of building my own because I was always a l
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I am using PX4 and trying to control a servo rotating automatically by reading the angular velocity data from brushless motor. The default setting is using RC to control the servo. Do you guys have any ideas on how to realize that? I
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I have this hexacopter:
https://hobbyking.com/en_us/aperture-rtf-m1.html?___store=en_us
which has a Pixhawk Flight controller.
Whenever I press the red switch solid red and attempt to arm the copter using the radio controller, one of the
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So a little background: I am using the Afro Mini 20A esc with a pixhawk mini and running the latest px4 flight-stack. I have flashed one esc with SimonK reversible firmware by changing the value of RC_PULS_REVERSE and was able to successfully flas
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I am Nitesh. I am a newbie here who's been lurking around for a while and only recently joined. I am in 12th grade alternatively the final year of high school.
I've been reading so much on this website about autopilot technologies and terminolo
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Can MP do reverse waypoint mission went the mission is ended ? means if it have 1,2,3,4,5 waypoint at waypoint 5 put waypoint command to make the drone back tu 4,3,2,1
Or this have been done?
It's amazingly difficult to find information on this subject.
I'd like to control the pitch, roll, and yaw, of my gimbal (Storm32 controller), from the control outputs of a Fatshark Trinity headtracker (mounted in Dominator V3's), using a Pixhawk, Tar
Read more…I have a new X6 Tarot build and so far the early flights are going well. I now look at the gimball and camera mount.
I should first clarify that my goal is aerial still photography with a full size Canon camera. That means that stable video is out of
Read more…The much anticipated International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 was successfully held in Las Vegas, the United States on January 5-8 local time. CES is by far the world’s largest and most widely influential yearly show of consumer electronics
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DJI released a "new" model of Mavic, but it's more of a color change overall.
It's all painted in vintage white and it's limite edition until the beginning of next year (after that it becomes more expensive).
I have also compared it with t
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