Discussions

Which important parameters should be considered when select a flight controller for a 8 KG drone?

Hi,

I'm planning to build a 8 KG drone and like to known how to find a suitable flight controller. I'd like a F7 model. 

Thanks for any help.

Adam

I’m in desperate need of help with my 2 year lasting chinese-knockoff-nightmare-quad build!

Hi everyone,

First of all, let me say that I think this is a fantastic forum / platform. I've been following it for a while without the use of an account and decided it was about time to sign up. The reason I signed up is because I am in desperate n

Help! ESC config or Motor slider issue

Can ordinary DC motors be used for drones？

 what is the difference with special drone motors?

Thanks

Adam

Building a drone for beginner

Hi Everyone,

I am thinking of building a drone. I needed some advise before starting. Since I am completely new to drones.

Here are few queries / question I need help with:

• Where should I look first ? I mean theories, documentation, tutorials.
• What platf

OrangeCube Erasing Parameters STILL After Bootloader Update

Having a really inexcusible issue with my OrangeCube and Kore board. It will randomly erase all Arducopter parameters and write the defaults. Of course this totally screws up the bird and I need to load my saved parameter set which may or may not the

GPS Accuracy, Refresh Rate, and Kalman Filtering?

Hello All!
I am working on a project where I have two devices that constantly trying to locate eachother using GPS modules and LoRa transcievers.
Its a buddy tracker for spearfishermen, to make it easier to locate your partner when you're out in th

Writing geotag in EXIF-header

Dear all,

does anyone of you know a solution to write the geo-coordates taken by an external GPS into the exif-header of an image when this is safed (not in post processing but at the moment the image is taken and safed to the SD-card)? I know that C

Pixhawk Thinking Tarot 650 Yaw Hard Twitch

Hi Everybody,
my Tarot 650 quad twitches a lot on the yaw axis when it is still on the ground, but when I do the motor/compass interference test, the motors run very smoothly without any noticeable shaking!
please may you help me with the mighty cause,

Flysky fs i6 not working on pixhawk 2.4.8

Issue details

Servos not working on Pixhawk 2.4.8, Im using Flysky Transmitter and IA6B receiver, when I tried to calibrate I found none of the servos were working even after using the arming switch. But I used the same setup with APM flight controlle

Line trace in non-GPS environment

I'mdoing line tracing research on pixhawk and Raspberry Pi4, but I'm stuck. Can you tell me a goot way or site?

Using: Raspberry Pi4, Pixhawk(PX4), Python

Thank you very much.

My GPS Caught Fire, I need advice

First off I'm quite a newbie to electonics, I apologize, I'm still learning. I recently built my drone, it worked for the most part but the GPS caught fire. It turns out the set of wires that connect the pixhawk to the GPS module melted and burned ou

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Log analyze to find cause of crash

Can expert help me to analyze cause of crash, below is log file of crash?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbfj9poy4plergf/15-Dec-2020-Crash.BIN?dl=0

Is Cross Continental CoInventor Collaboration to Jointly Develop an Hybrid Drone Possible?

Hello friends, I'm based in Africa but needs a coinventor or Angel investor based in USA or Canada who would endorse an NDA with me so that we can fast track 3D CAD, 3D computer simulation, manufacturing/funding and patent of a new concept of hybrid

Ardurover

Hi,

new to the cube and have built a rover however I can only upload a mission but can't seem to get the Rover to move any help would be appreciated.

Throttle increases to about 10 percent (Not Throttle up) - doesn't increase the speed of the motors (video attached )

Throttle increases to about 10 percent - doesn't increase the speed of the motors

Throttle increases to about 10 percent. And then just going up doesn't increase the speed of the motors. ESC calibrated, Reggio calibrated.
PIxhawk 2.4.8 firmware 3.5 US

DJI Phantom 2+ based custom drone

Hi all! I got this one with dead wireless module. Replacing a transmitter is a worthless idea. I wonder if it's possible to build something new using raspberry or kinda stuff. (i already have Pi3b+) Because i am from Russia, ordering from abroad is t

Tethered drones

Hi guys, Im fairly new to this platform but would like your kind advice on one of the projects that i'm working on. I am currently working on adding a tethering system to the Dji s1000+ spreading wings octocopter to allow for 'unlimited flight time'.

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