Hey,
I'm fully aware of the dangers of opening up a lipo.
I know that it might be safer to render it inert in saltwater and throw it away.
I understand that sometimes, charging a dead cell at 10mAh, might bring it back to life.
Any ideas on the best and
Read more…Hi I am trying to connect in mission planner 1.3.5 it downloads the fw and installs ok but when I try to connect it times out with no mavlink connection no heartbeatCan anyone give me some advise please.Many thanks for you help in advance.
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I have taken some pictures of a wheat field this week using a fixed wing and I have about 400 images for this field that need to be stitched. There is a lot of overlapping and also the images are slightly off nadir. I am looking for a software
Read more…The following message appeared when I checked for updates. I should add, my logs are not recording.
"Update Faliled. File download does not match Hash: Geo Utility.dll"
What should I do?
This is my second APM and it is getting very frustrating. I did
Read more…Approx. every 10 seconds my quadcopter will slight twitch/Pulse during my test flights. I am using the APM 2.6 flight controller.
Any advise, or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Read more…I have did the Compassmot on my hexacopter last year, but 3DRobotics support said the following for my quadcopter that I have just completed and ready to test.
Hello Dan.
Glad everything is fine now!
A quick note, we have reports that the Compassmot is
i am trying to build the hardware itself .... as of now i have a i2c based mpu9150 only... i'm planning on buying the other sensors soon and maybe make a sensor sheild !! i have tried uploading the firmware from the mission planner to the arduino meg
Read more…I have a hard time getting a good HDOP and enough satellites with my 2013 3DR Y6 (APM 2.6 with ArduCopter 3.1.5, uBlox GPS).
HDOP hardly gets below 2 point something even if it can see 6 sats.
Though I live in an area surrounded by quite some mountains
Read more…I went to Mot_Spin_Armed and set it to 0. When I arm and flipped my assigned safety switch on the TX to"On", all four motors will spin. After raising the throttle, and lowering it back to zero, I may have three out of the four motors continue to sp
Read more…I have to choose props for this motors; They are for a Tarot 650 cuad for FPV (expect 1.5-2 kgs) and 6s batteries (two 3s in series) ¿What do you think about this props 15.5**5.5 http://www.foxtechfpv.com/1555-carbon-fiber-propeller-cwccw-p-542.html
Read more…I was having APM 2.5 with my quadrotor. But it fall on the ground and its one motor is damaged. I am trying to stabilize it after loosing its one rotor. It is possible to fly it (a little bit) using auto tuned APM2.6.
Read more…Looks like it was an Iris, the guy sure played it cool
"When police arrived, Mears claimed the man was taking inappropriate pictures of people sunbathing on the beach and that he had assaulted her. But after the pilot showed the surreptitiously captur
Read more…I want to purchase a clone of APM2.6, do you know the product with the results of AUTOPILOT?
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I am working on rover based on 4WD wild thumper chassis. I am using APM 2.5 (ardurover 2.45) with LEA-6H GPS and external compass HMC5883. I tested today automatic mission and i have question. If i set WP_RADIUS=0 rover dont spin on the spot b
Read more…Hi all,
I am working on rover based on 4WD wild thumper chassis. I am using APM 2.5 (ardurover 2.45) with LEA-6H GPS and external compass HMC5883. I tested today automatic mission and i have question. If i set WP_RADIUS=0 rover dont spin on the spot b
Read more…Hello all,
3DR RTF quad, firmware 3.1.5, 880k motors, AC 2.6, payload usually just a go-pro.
Ran a couple of logs through droneshare, just because, and it flagged my THR_RATE_P value as outside norms. It shows as 0.6 when it should be between 1.0 and
Read more…I built an APM 2.5 and had very little problems, but on my APM 2.6 I am not able to get my PC to recognize Arduino Mega 2560. I downloaded the zip file and extracted it. Then I went to "Other Devices" and scanned, but no luck. I do not see the Ard
Read more…Dear all,
I was wondering how the copter will behave when changing between modes. I mean will it be a time gap that the copter will behave unexpectedly when switching from mode to another.
advanced Thx for your help
Read more…We are a project group at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. We are aiming to make an autonomous quad-copter using APM 2.5 and the Arducopter firmware. However we are new to Multi-copters and personally, reading heavy terms like AHRS and Mavlink
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I am a complete newbie in the world of UAVs. But I need to make a Object Following UAV using APM 2.5 as my academic project, so can't afford to spend time on mistakes. This heads me to this awesome group for advice :P
So, basically I am planning to
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