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Attaching a servo to APM board.

Hello everyone,

i want to use a pin of the APM board to attach my Servo because i want to do something when the drone is flying, I wonder if it is possible this. In that case, where should i attach it? In the channel's panel?

Thanks!

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attopilot sensor on APM1

I am adding an attopilot sensor connected  to an APM1 board. The wiki seems to say I don't need to add a resistor to the board, but without one I am measuring 4.5 v on a battery with 12.5v.  I am not sure if this is the cause. Any thoughts would be g

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Landing and Sonar

Yesterday I did some testing of sonar.

I see that sonar altitude isn't smooth - it is understandable, as the ground isn't flat (I was flying over grass and small bushes). That implies nervous jumping of my hexa when flying on low altitude.

I think, tha

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Can't leave the ground.

Good day,Tried my first test flight today without success.My goal for today was to hover in stabilized mode perhaps move around a little.HT-FPV frame10-47 propsAPM 2.5 with GPS and sonar2.7.3DX825 amp plush ESCDid the setup and calibration during the

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Log analyze

Today I was flying my hexa without telemetry. Now I want to see some details from my flights, but I don't know how. I've successfully exported logs from APM and I have *.log, *.log.gpx and *.kmz files.

I can open kmz in Google Earth, but I don't know

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calibrazione minimo motori su APM2

Salve, sto assemblando il mio esacopter con APM2 e non riesco a memorizzare il minimo dei motori seguendo la procedura automatica consigliata. Ho provato anche la procedura di calibrazione diretta ( collegamento alla RX) , ma anche questa non memoriz

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Can I bench test the Failsafe?

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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trying to get my hex in the air

I am having troubles with a motor thats not spinning up. when I run the setup motors command in the cli I can't get one motor to spin up but if I manually do it, it spins up fine hits max and min just fine. Other motors start and stop just fine but I

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Quadcopter Flipping

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

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