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i am planning to build a boat with a steering servo wich is capable of endless rotation. Is there any need for a "mid" position of the servo while driving? Or is the PID (+gyro/accel) enough to determine where to steer?
The Idea is, to rotate the p
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Inspired on Burkards Sonar Boat project i want to build my own Sonar Boat. We have some discussion to implement the MAVLink functionality and use a APM or Pixhawk with ardurover firmware.
Burkard has developed a little remote with a OLED to ge
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i am planning to use a APM/Pixhawk with ArduRover firmware for a solar powered boat that will go for long distances. I have some first questions and hope you guys can help me ;)
- is it possible at all to use the Ardurover code for a boat with arou
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I don't know if it is the good place for this question, but what is the best way to change the Rover icon by a Boat icon on the flight data and flight plan in mission planner interface?
Regards,
Jean-luc
Read more…Hey guys, I'm looking to start on my second apm project of a using the apm to create 3D photo realistic sonar imaging, not just general 3d topography of structures. I know a bit about the data logging for the pseudo 3d image mapping for aerial photog
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I just equiped one medium inflatable boat (3 meters lenght) with pixhawk and APM2.7.
The boat have two electrics motors and a capacity to turn in place with the RC (vtail mixage) connecting directly on the motors controller. if trottle stick at
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I built a 25ft arduboat to test it's abilities at such scale.
- Manual mode works great
- auto, hits way points quite accurately but goes along the path between one way point to another in a zig zag Fashion.
Can anyone provide any help wi
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I am working on a portable USV for search and rescue. I am trying to figure out a platform to use of a boat. I was looking at the RC plane floats, but I came across a youth Kayak that I think might work. The seating area could house the equi
Read more…Hi everyone. Apologies in advance if this has already been covered but I did have a look around on the forums and couldn't find anything.
I need a boat. Maybe two. I need to be able to test the APM:Rover code in a boat. I'm in Australia and summer
Read more…I thought I would finally start my own discussion. The following are pictures of my boat in various stages of the build.
Formers are set on the building board ready for planking. The masking tape on them is to prevent the planks from getting glued t
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The time on my senior project is dwilndling down and I'm having a little trouble getting/trying to figure out the APM programmed for a boat rather than a plane. I'm not to sure where to begin with this since I've never worked with it before an
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I am looking for help!
I am a design engineer, specializing in composite structures. So building designing and building vessels for my project is the easy part.
My weakness is the APM and getting more channels to perform necessary tasks,
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Well, it seems we are having a hard time locating a jetdrive to move our boat. The 2 we have found would be shipped from UK and Germany and we need it ASAP. We have 10 weeks to finish this project.
We are also having some troubles specing out a
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Some background: I'm a Senior at Penn State working on my Senior Capstone Project which happens to be an autonomous boat. We were interested in the project mainly because it was attempted a few years ago and failed epically and we wanted to ma
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