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Need help completing a drone build

Hi there,

years ago, I had set on to create a drone from scratch - i was following a blog tutorial (https://blog.prusa3d.com/how-to-build-a-3d-printed-micro-drone_29310/)

I had soldered the motors to the main board tower (which consisted of the ESC + F

PIXHAWK CUBE NOT BOOTING WITH BENEWAKE TF02 PRO

Hi Everyone,I connected my Pixhawk cube to Benewake TF02 PRO (connected to TELEM 1) and it did not power up. I disconnected it and then powered it, it worked perfectly. Later when I connected the TF02 ( after it was powered up) it worked fine.The cu

What Are the Advantages of Environmental Protection UAV?

In some area, such as natural reserves, wetland protection, drinking water sources, monitoring of marine, drone is an emerging detection tools to help people work more efficiently.

Due to the large supervision area, inconvenient transportation and re

VTOL UAV for Security and Delivery

A surveillance drone is used by governments, private companies or military organizations to enhance security and defense missions.

The security and defense industry was one of the first to embrace drone technology, with the first military drones dati

Single Motor Quadcopter

I think it should be possible to have one powerful motor in the center of the drone and distribute its power over the four rotors, the speed of every individual rotor could be varied via a tiny CVT

I think I could build the mechanical part all on my o

DJI supports Russia

When you buy DJI, you're supporting Russia's war against Ukraine. I've owned several DJI drones, but I will never own another.

... DJI, sent drone parts — like batteries and cameras — via the United Arab Emirates to a small Russian distributor in Nov

Building with arduino along with possibly a pi, and communicating with sbus.

Ok, so this will be my first arduino and raspberry pi build of a drone, although I am actually trying to figure out the best way to do this and I'm planning to start with a fixed wing first. I picked upma decent motor and esc and i have all the servo

Custom Virtual Reference Station(VRS) System

Is there a service that offers the functionality to register RTK basesand NTRIP 
Casters and through a mount point, obtain the drone position and return an RTCM from a virtual base? 

I'm interested in getting this solution or developing it myself.

If I'

Pix4D Training Services

 Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the field of photogrammetry and mapping and I'm trying to decide on a mapping software. One of the applications I'm considering is PIX4D, and whether or not to sign up for the companies training and certification courses.
D

B/E red light

Hi,

I`m using pix32 v5 and there is a red blinking red led on the B/E (FMU), which i understand means that the pixhawk is on bootloader mode, how do you cancel this mode and get back to aa normal mode?

Thank you

PID Tuning

Since I didn't have a problem other than a little wobble when taking off in althold and loiter modes, I flew in a plan that I uploaded to mp in auto mode. It was a successful flight, but I think my pid values are still not very good. It wobbles a lot

Best beginner drones

I'm looking to get into using a drone and just wondering what's the best bang for my buck. I know of DJI, but that's a little out of my price range. I want something to play around with and with a camera to de ide if i want to spend the eaxtra chash

What can Drone be used to do? for all ?Like an AI

Chatgpt can do a lot of thing. Like a baby do things with some mistake but Innocent.

Some time I thought drone is a part of AI. But not so intelligent now.

There are a lot of thing Drone help the human do 

They are working such mapping, SAR, and surveil

How to find the highest efficiency power train for UAV ?

As one of the main series of T-Motor, U series motors have always been outstanding in the industrial field, and U8II motors are one of the best-selling models of T-Motor. It is an upgraded version of the U8 motor, the overall efficiency has been incr

The Holy Stone HS720

Hello.

Next week I'll go traveling to West-USA. I've just bought the holy stone hs720. Is it safe to let it fly above high canyons? Because of the depth of the canyons?

Thanks for the answer!

Quadair drone review

Smart LiPo batteries - buy, build or hack!?

Hey all,

I'm building a wireless charging drone, and have a few options for the battery, which it would be great to get some more experienced advice from.

Since the charging management needs to be on the drone, I'll need an onboard BMS, so the options

kakute H7 65amp stack

I am curious if anyone on here has used this flight controler for a build?

Two questions about the PNP Phoenix 2400 Glider

I'm getting a Phoenix 2400 Glider, with wiring completed already. I have two questions about this.

1. How can I add autopilot?

I am wondering if there is a guide for adding autopilot to this plane.

2. What parts are reccomended?

I read that the pre-assem

How to find out which motor+propellers will work with a plane

I'm trying to build a plane, and I chose to use a Hee Wing T1 Ranger as the base, because there is parts available for VTOL conversion. I don't know what propellers or motor to use with this, however. I'm in a bit of a quagmire between buying the pla

Transmitter and receiver connect, but FC has no receiver signal

Hello, this is an issue I have been attempting to get fixed for a while. I've tried two different forums... no luck.

I turn on my drone and turnigy evolution, and my TGY-iA6C shows solid red light indicating connection and transmtiter shows as being c