Good day,
I have completed the assembly and setup/calibaration of my first quadcopter,
Plan a test flight this weekend.
APM2.5
Failsafe action = 2.
DX8 - followed the post to calibrate the failsafe. Looks good.
On the bench, without props I noticed the mot
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I just registered to DIY drones after loitering for quite a while. I'm planning to build a quad or hexacopter and I'm just overwhelmed but the possibilities.
My main problem (I guess) is that I have no R/C background whatsoever. So the problems
Read more…I have fixed the problem with the motors by calibrating the ESC's but I have encountered another problem. When I go to take off the quad flips over the left side. I have tried calibrating sensors and adjusting the P and I gains but there is no differ
Read more…I made my own scratch built quad copter and it is very stable when flown in stabilised mode. Behaves as anyone would expect. Stays put when you don't touch it and can have a fair turn of speed when flown aggressively.
I have been going around in circl
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I have ordered a quadcopter frame and electronics from Hobby King and it arrived and is now all connected and built. When I power up the throttle Motor 1 spinns but none of the others do. as I continue up the others join in and cut out. I have wat
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Well, we have APM2 Purple Board on a Turnigy quadcopter frame. The problem is when I try to pull an analog output LOW, instead of LOW it gives SQUARE wave; but I don't have a problem with pulling the pin high. This problem is occurred with
Good day,The optical flow sensor document describes the setup for the APM2 but I have an APM2.5.How do I connect MISO, MOSI and SCLK to the APM2.5? I assume the analog connection remains the same.Thank youRandy
Read more…Well, I don't know if this will be understood very well because it appears to be correct but my experience with rocket's tells me otherwise. I have not gotten around to doing this myself but working with rocket stabilization all the time keeps me fro
Read more…I've just tried latest firmware and it was very pleasant to fly but I've noticed some yaw on ascending/descending and fast turning. Wanted to check logs but after clicking "Log Download" I can see this:
Read more…Init ArduCopter V2.7.1
Free RAM: 1485
FW Ver: 1
I've tried to setup my APM2 to use in flight fine tuning as described here.
I've picked CH6_RATE_KP from dropdown, set Min as "0,000" and Max as "0,500". I've also set CH6 as a POT3 on my 9x radio.
The problem is that this Min and Max is not scaled to
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Well, I got to thinking about the Variable Pitch quad problem. I don't really have time to work on a project like this right now but I thought I'd throw this out there in case someone else was interested. A small hydraulic motor and pump could be u
Read more…Forgive my multiple post - I originally posted this in the "quadcopter" forum, and got very few views, no comments. I'm hoping sending to this group might net me a little more feedback :-)
(originally: http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/on-constru
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Can anyone tell me how the mission planner works.
Does it need to be running and connected to the Internet whilst in flight or do you program the way points in at home or on the ground before flight.
Also is it possible to edit and add way points in
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I am new to ardupilot and I have bought a quad recently and I want to install the arducopter system for a school project. I was wondering Wether it is possible to switch from manual flight with a transmitter to the automatic Ardupilot system wi
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I would like to receive the GPS position from the Arducopter every 500ms. I think the copter is sending the gps position every 2 seconds as default. Where is it possible to change or implement this?
The copter is connected via telemetry and I
Read more…I have a trouble with Xbee, it happen after the last update.
On hexa, the xbee module have blue and red light switched on, trying to connect with mission planner (57K), I see the following errors:
in ArdupilotMega.MAVLink.readPacket() (:0) [ProgressRe
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yesterday I went to fly with my new hexa (second flight session). At the flying field there were a 20/25 km/h wind. I decided to try to fly in stabilize mode and after some troubles in takin off I realized I was not able to control the hexa,
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I
Read more…Dear all, I've built an hexacopter with APM1, during my first flight I've realized the hexa was going backward, even if there were no wind at all, what could be? (I've done the level procedure)
Second issue, I've uploaded the latest firmware and had s
Read more…Is anyone using this frame? I got it but am in doubt about which motors to use.
http://www.goodluckbuy.com/butterfly-x250-330mm-shaft-mini-quadcopter-glassfiber-frame-74g.html
I got it with the intention to use my little tiny hobbyking motors that I ha
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