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I'm looking to start some conversations about autonomous marine drones, especially ones that hydrofoil. If you're interested in joining the conversation, just jump on https://groups.google.com/d/forum/autonomous-marine-hydrofoiling-drones. I
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I'm super new to the group, but I'm exploring low drag options to meausure speed through the water, not based on position. I was hoping to try to convert the airspeed pitot tube setup for use in the water.
Has anyone had any experience conve
Read more…Our group want to make a RIB (2-3m) with APM/Pixhawk, what type of motor,servo should i prepare, can you give me some information.
Regards.
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I've been using apm and now pixhawk for some time in both fixed wing and copters. My latest build is an arduboat using a modified off the shelf rc boat with an intelliducer for lake surveying. I'm now planning my next build. I will be operating the
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I have been a member of the forums for a while and I firstly would like to thank all of the other members for their help in answering questions of other users. I have used this as a very valuable resource in my project. I want to also apolo
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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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If you have been reading my posts on the Comment Wall you are aware that I am building a fairly large R/C racing boat for autonomous offshore competition.
The R/C boat I have selected is the Zippkit VBox 2013 edition that is 46" long and 17"
Read more…I am working on a project that involves interfacing a depth transducer to APM 2.5 and am having a little trouble.
As mentioned before, this is APM 2.5 that I am working with. I have had a pin array mounted to the board to gain access to the UART2 inte
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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
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I have a model sub which works very well but I am trying to automate it. The sketch is now complete (subsketchlatest14) other than this last issue that I can’t seem to get right at all. Even with suggestions, nothing works.
What I want is cod
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I'm involved with an amazing ardurover/boat project that is kicking some major goals. However, there are a couple of things that I would like to chat about.
1. Remote arming. I know this is possible via MP, however, the times we have tried it
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
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I am interested in long-distance ocean-going drones.
To date, I am aware of only 2 craft that have made it across the Pacific; both WaveGliders. They are the Papa Mau and the Benjamin. Both released at the same time from San Francisco, it took
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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