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Help!!! My Quad-Plane Crashed During RTL

Hi guys, 

semi vtol edf design ( based off the concept art of the halo wasp)

so in the title i mentioned the design im building is a semi vtol edf design from the concept art of the halo 5 wasp 

so my plan since they dont make edf motors big enough or powerfull enough i will use multiple electric motors in a configuration  to

Programming APM2.8 with ArduinoIDE from Ardupilot, Yaw is malfunctioning

Hello, I'm trying to do an autonomous flight indoors and I decided to program my APM 2.8 with a custom code using the AP library, when I test the sensor to measure Pitch Roll and Yaw, Pitch and Roll work fine, but Yaw starts to climb gradually to 180

Impossible Trim in elevon mixing

Balance chargers of drones from EV-PEAK

Hi friends:

Here is Pippa from EV-PEAK. Pippa is the sales of EV-PEAK. EV-PEAK is the manufacture of balance chargers for drones, RC cars, and FPVs.I am posting here for introducing balance chargers from EV-PEAK.If you interested in the chargers, you

Pixhawk antenna tracker audio telemetry

Hello,
Is there any solution of getting GPS telemetry via audio channel trought FPV with Pixhawk Tracker ? ( http://ardupilot.org/antennatracker/index.html ). I want to have only FPV 5.8 Ghz antenne, so i can tracking and have FPV together. I saw the

Wiring pixhawk to S800 frame

I'm currently working on a S800 clone using a pixhawk flight controller.  I could used some guidance on wiring things up.

I'm not quite sure where to get the wiring harnesses that will run from the pixhawk to the motor wiring pins on the center board.

GPS-based Antenna Tracking

APM 2.8 Arducopter - Simon 30 Amp Escs very hot!! - Wont arm - Help!

Hi Guys - my deepest apologies if this is both obvious and an old problem but its new to me and I need help.

I have been flying my Phantom 3 for a while but thought I would venture ito the DIY drone so...

I have assembled a flamewheel clone frame with

Strange behavior in Auto mode

Hi,

I have a quad copter with tmotor air gear 350 combo pack esc and motors and with pixhawk 3.4.6 autopilot.

2 days ago my copter had a very strange behavior and as it was in auto mode for mapping at a turn it suddenly lost about 7-8 meters height and

GPS modules with Active Antenna and without Active Antenna

This BBS was so attractive to me that I became one of them, and this was my first post, a little bit nervous, but it's ok.

According so much research, I've found out that GPS modules have so many factors that depend their performance on.

But I was init

Need miniature with prop shields and broadcasting stabilized camera

Hello,I am new here and totally inexperienced. I have a need for a very small quad that can provide live video in a dark environment.Suggestions?Thanks

Buy heavy lifting drone

Dear Friends 

I plan to buy a heavy lifting drone, by weight 50kg, 100kg and 200kg respectively, please recommand a proper suppler for me.

Regards

Steven

Help!!! All 8 motors of quad co-axial multi-rotor drone stopped spinning in mid-air

Hi there,

I have a quad co-axial multi-rotor drone and crashed during loitering mode. The drone was hovering about 10 m from the ground in loiter mode and then all of a sudden ALL motors stop spinning and finally crashed.

About this drone,

- MTOW = 25 k

Enhanced WiFiBroadcast

WiFiBroadcast is an opensource digital FPV and telemetry system.

Main features:

 - 1:1 map RTP to IEEE80211 packets for minimum latency (doesn't serialize to byte steam)
 - Smart FEC support (immediately yeild packet to video decoder if FEC pipeline

Arduino Drone and Cloverleaf Antenna

I am planning to design an Arduino drone with a cloverleaf antenna. Already Googled cloverleaf leaf designs and tutorials separately. But didn't find the one with Arduino boards. Is it practically possible to lump Arduino with a cloverleaf antenna?

Dealing with heat

Hello guys, I am a mechanical engineering student, for my thesis, I am working on a Survey UAV. Now it is carrying a lot of electronics (about 170watt) so it gets quite toasty inside. I wanted to go with a water cooler on the cooling block of the ele

Ships and UAVs - They can work together

Hi there,

FAILSAFE, NO PERMITE ENTRAR COMANDOS DE ACCIÓN

Hola! recientemente hice un vuelo en auto, en los parámetros hice la siguiente configuración:  FAILSAFE SHORT 20 Segundos y FAILSAFE LARGE 40 Segundos. en pleno vuelo el equipo en MODO AUTO a 2,6kms de distancia en la pantalla HUD del MISSION PLANNER

video transmission by the APM

hi, I'm new on the forum. and I'm also new to APM

I found this and scrooled down and found that the radio was operating at 915Mhz.; how can it transfer live video, 

or maybe I'm wrong please correct me.