I have the following configuration:
I
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I am not having much luck in getting my quad to fly maybe it is because I am a very inexperienced RC pilot. I must have I have done something wrong somewhere.
I am using a X525 V3 frame with the APM2 and was hoping that I could at least get to
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Could you please help me. I have been working on programming my hexacopter for 6 hours without any luck. I am able to get 4 out of the 6 motors running with my Hitec Aurora 9 radio. I have programmed the board with the APM Planner. I made sure
Hello everyone,
I've decided to get a ArduCopter but wanted advice on which one/accessories/upgrades are the way to go for me as it's looking like I'll need to do a bit of a upgrading for what I want.
What Im after is as follows;
I have just started using APM1 board. I wanted to upload the quadcopter firmware to my apm board but compiling error is occuring there as shown in the attached screenshot. So I tried to upload the firmware using mission planner but the latest versio
Read more…Hi diydroners,
I am a complete newbie to this forum. I have not flown any RC aircraft yet but am very interested in avionics and robotics. I have flown a Cessna solo using VFR so I understand basics of aviation. I am software engineer so am handy wi
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…I am having difficulties with ESC calibration on my 3DR quad. The calibration seems to go okay, with all motors starting in unison and accelerating proportional to throttle settings.
The trouble begins when I cycle the power on the APM2 board, the cal
Read more…Hi folks I need some help with the PID settings on my APM2
I have it mounted on a 650 quad and at the moment it returns home and loiters OK in a breeze up to around 7mph max, beyond that it has no hope at all of holding position
What setting would I ne
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
Read more…APM2 and separate GPS unit ?
I'm not certain but I suspect that sometimes my quad is losing GPS lock and maybe that could be due to the GPS receiver being too close to all the other electronics ?
If that may be so then is it possible to either move the
Read more…I have a question with the 3dr quad. I was out flying a while back and this is something that keeps bothering me. It was in auto mode. I have sonar enabled. When the copter rolls does the sonar think that is is farther from the ground than it rea
Read more…I would love to know the mounting hole spacing of the APM2 unit.
Can anyone help me out?
Read more…Fuel for the thought.
I wanted to see if anybody has every wanted to try this. I am not sure how it works but I had read about it and wondered if somebody wanted to try it.
Read more…Before rebuilding a crashed Scarab Stealth-Reconn from Multiwiicopter.com (http://www.multiwiicopter.com/products/stealth-quad-fpv-reconn) and fitting it with my new APM2 board instead of the Paris board I would like to hear if anyone already has tri
Read more…Can anybody explain that phenomenon ? After a few years of flying and several craft I have noticed that more often than not my 'R' props break. Can I change directions so I can burn through some of these spare normal props? =]
Why does this happen? I
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I am wanting to mount a board-camera to the bottom of my Quad-Copter to use for a look-down auto-pilot algorithm I am writing. Basically, I want to have the camera running into a Pro-Mini (which contains the algorithm) and then have the Pro
Read more…After a great amount of tuning my Quad i now have it flying pretty good to fine tune it i tried to download some logs but no matter what i try when i go to download them i see that there are no flights logged. I am able to connect to the quad it app
Read more…So, finally got my APM2 a week ago, got it set up, and did my first flight:
Right off the bat, it was listing HEAVILY to the right, not flipping over, but required a lot of stick to keep it stable. I looked at the mounting of the APM board with stick
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ok so we bought the thing, we followed the instructions and double-triple checked, it still doesn't work.
the problem is: it is very unstable, it can't stabilize itself. We try to get off the ground , and within one second of take off, it goes insa
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