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I have played around with fixed-wing drones before but am new to boats. I am looking to build a simple boat for the purpose of inspecting a heavily timbered section of river that it is hard to get a manned boat into and am looking for some s
Read more…Dear All, My name is Alfonso and two weeks ago i started my project to catamaran boat finalizated to hydrographic survey (first step only Single beam echo sounder and RTK Gps+datalogger) in lake and near shore. My configuration have only two motors a
Read more…i build a boat with APM2.6(ardurover 2.5 firmware) with two brush motors and using joystick to control boat. when i first power the APM2.6, the two motors will run has high speed for several seconds. I resolve this problem of pixhawk to use safety sw
Read more…Hey everyone I'm new here and my thing is USVs. Looking forward to sharing some more cool stuff in the future with you guys and I even sell this thing, And I even just sell the outboard system on its own so check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Hi all,
I want to install a rudder on to my kontiki, which is like a submarine which floats on the surface and takes a fishing line out to sea.
I am thinking of using an apm 2.8 with gps (because thats what i have) to drive a 20kg servo. The gps should
Read more…Hi, I'm new to Pixhawk. I'm making a boat. I do have 2 brushless motor with ESC and 1 servo which is connected to the rudder. How can I connect them to the Pixhawk 2.4.8. What changes should I bring in the parameters?
From readings, I come to know th
Read more…This is my first Ardupilot / Autonomous Project.
I'm doing a project that requires this boat to go to a specific way point for water quality testing/sampling.
This Airboat configuration uses 2 air propelled motors are meant to be a differential thrust.
Thought id post this video, as the control units for this boat are actually being sold commercially on www.map-tech.com . how cool is that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2hYQ32os_s
Read more…Thought i would share this with you all, this may be helpful for those looking to build larger surface vessel. this product apparently costs as much as a regular Marine Autopilot but provides Autonomous capabilities to the entire boat including throt
Read more…Hi, I'm building an ASV made of 2 hulls of PVC pipe and a aluminum frame. It will be powered with 2 T100 thruster from bluerobotics. They offer an ESC with fordward/backward posibility. PW drom 1000 to 1475 is for backward and PW from 1525 to 2000ms
Read more…Hi，I developed a boat use the pixhawk for auto control,I had test the sonar(model:I2C-MB1212），It's so bad,sometimes the sigal is off and on,I think maybe the I2C is suffered interfere.
Who can give me a suggestion? what kind of the sonar's sigal is be
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I am offered a petrol boat at a very goof price. Just starting with Arduboat, lots of experience with Plane and Copter, but only electric.
Is there a compelling reason NOT to use a non electric boat?
Cheers,
Andreas
Read more…Boat: 3-meter trimaran
Motor: 2.5hp Suzuki 4 stroke
Controller: PixHawk
Mapping Speed 14-19kph (4-5m/s)
Fly Away -
a. During the North / South routes everything seems ok, except the wobbly course
b. When the East / West routes start, it immediately fails
Read more…Hi all!
I've just come across the User Group and really like its layout. I'm hoping I can find some help here.
I'm currently working on a project at home and have designed a "drone boat" that will be autonomous and controlled via GPS coordinates. I'v
Hello,
I currently have a USV equipped with a port and starboard thruster. We are working on transitioning from a skid steer system, to dual rudders and we are having issues with our thrusters turning off unexpectedly.
Here is a basic layout of our ele
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I have SKID_STEER_IN set to "1" for my dual motor boat which responds to the throttle and roll (Channel 1 & 3) inputs from my transmitter.
I would prefer that it responds to throttle and pitch (Channels 3 & 2).
I'm using APM Rover 3.1.0.
Read more…Hello everybody my name is vassilis and i'm from greece my problem is that i'm try to make a diy baitboat with return to home but i want one more extra servo for hook release.this servo must moving to release when the rtl mode is enabled have you any
Read more…Hello, I've been designing and building a number of TIG welded aluminum hulls for my water quality and bathymetry projects and have one that I need to sell. This design is very efficient - but it turned out not to be the right design for this particu
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My name is Cristian and I m from Roumania.
First of all excuse my poor english and congratulations for this technical forum.
I started 2 weeks ago a new project with a autopilot Pixhawk/Px4 2.4.6.Everything went well ,I mean wiring and MP connect
Read more…Hi all, as some of you might remember I was having a problem with my survey boat zig zagging terribly while carrying out a mission. At first I thought it was a Mission Planner parameter setting, but it turned out to be the little L298N H-Bridge fail
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