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Hardware sensor filters - to use them or not?

I am currently putting together my first Arducopter hexa and as I am going through the manual wikis I am slowly realizing that everything might not be fully updated to reflect status of current hardware and firmware.

Reading the instruction it seemed

Started by Tomas Soedergren

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Fly Mode Problem

I'am having trouble and need help with setting flight modes with the TGY9X .

I set channel 5 on the radio menu to (GEAR) and when I switch the (GEAR) switch - I can get two modes of my choice and not three. I have been experiment with modes using the

Started by Tom Petruzzelli

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Why using RC transmitters?

During a sunday picnic, I was thinking about new design of ArcuCopter.And I asked myself:"Why shall we continue to use RC transmitter consoles? Couldn't we use a computer, or an iphone in the ISM band? We will have all-in-one architecture: FPV,comman

Started by giu

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trouble with quad X on 2.0.47

I am nnewbie and almost total noob in multicopters. Purchased APM the latest fully assembled with telemetry, GPS, barometer but without sonar yet. tried on DIY tricopter frame, have 10+ flights on stablize and alt hold. then reload Y6 on DIY frame. a

Started by nubli hashim

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APM Mission Planner intermittent stuck in liunx

Hi Every one:

I connected the APM (with IMU shield and GPS) to my desktop via USB.

I launched it with mono. There are intermittent stucks.

For example, in Flight Data, sometimes when I move and rotate my board the sub-windows show the flight

Started by Yucong Lin

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About type ( HELI, ACRO, GLID ) selection for transmitter.

Hi everyone:

I am going to use a Turnigy transmitter to control the arducopter.

Which of HELI, ACRO, GLID shall I use to control the arducopter?

If it is HELI, which of the five sub-type shall I use?

I am new. Thank you in advance.

Yucong

Started by Yucong Lin

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Project Help?

Hi! I'm new to ArduCopter and I really want to use it for my HS project.

My Project:

Focus on motion tracking using a GPS-IMU fusion method. Place a GPS on say a helmet and then have a person put it on and walk/run around a football field. The GPS woul

Started by azngundamrx782

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new to arducopter

hi im new to arducopter and i want to know how to begin with?

Started by Aditya.Desai

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Radio Trims Behavior

Sorry for the posting this again here but does anyone know if radio trims are taken as the "centers' when entering into auto-pilot modes(Auto, RTL, Loiter)? I've been testing my quad for a past couple of days with and without trims, entering into eit

Started by Ihab Ali

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New to ArduCopter and trying to simulate using FlightGear

I'm interested in simulating the flight of a copter as the QuadHil tutorial demonstrates, but I want to use it either without any hardware in-the-loop or with a small Arduino in-the-loop. The idea is to use the firmware of ArduCopter together with a

Started by Rowan Waffles

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Can we install ArduCopter_2_0_43 on linux?

Hi everyone:

I went through internet and found that windows is necessary for the installation. Can we install it on linux? Did anyone work through it?

Thank you in advance.

Yucong Lin

Started by Yucong Lin

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Logs

Can we view the movement of our heli (roll and pitch) in the logs? Only the yaw is shown.

Started by Marianne Antonio

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Faulty System, suggestions appreciated.

Other than my grammar and spelling :-)

I'm looking at a new quad, standard config, built by owner.

Soldering is reasonable, not the the way I would have done it though.

The GPS was connected to wrong socket, on the sensor board :-(

Mission Planner connec

Started by Gustav Kuhn

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hints for basic good pids for hexa (+) with 880kv , 12" props and v 2.0.40 loaded

Hello !

I just finished setting up my all new arducopter hexa with 880kv motors and 12" props;

I also loaded 2.0.40 (and we are already at 2.0.42, which i will load any soon) and would like to have a good start with my pids so i can finetune further qu

Started by Rlife

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Can you guys take a look at my preparing list and questions for my first arducopter? Thanks

Hi Everyone:

Sorry for the long list. But I am totally new to arducopter. The following is what I conclude from web searching. Please take a good and give your opinions.

Thank you very much in advance.

Radio control
(Which is the most popular one?)

Rece

Started by Yucong Lin

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About the Arducopter's ' ''canopy ''

Hi everyone:

Does anyone know how to make a "canopy" like the arducopter in the pic http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/ArduCopter2

I mean, what covers the electronics parts.

Thank you in advance

Yucong

Started by Yucong Lin

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Setup of Heli

We really don't know what the problem is (because we just followed the setup for our heli) but everytime we reset the apm+imu, the set up requires us to set the radio frequency, or pids, or the levels, or the declination values.

Is there a way to ret

Started by Marianne Antonio

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do I need to recalibrate the ESCs if I use a different battery?

Hi

I have a 3s 4000mAh and a 4s 5000mAh Lipo battery and would like to try out how the flight time changes; but can I just swap the battery or do I have to recalibrate the four ESCs of my quadcopter to work with the other battery?

thanks a lot

Felix

Started by 1aor70tjevhct

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help how do i reprogram the outputs on ardupilot mega

the output 3 isn't working so i need to reprogram the outputs please help

Started by Gage Halverson

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xbee connection to the apm

We are currently testing the connection of the GCS and the Heli but we can't connect thru xbee communication. We could have the data and programming using the usb. Can anyone tell us whats wrong? We are using the xbee module suggested in the site of

Started by Marianne Antonio

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Hardware sensor filters - to use them or not?

Fly Mode Problem

Why using RC transmitters?

trouble with quad X on 2.0.47

APM Mission Planner intermittent stuck in liunx

About type ( HELI, ACRO, GLID ) selection for transmitter.

Project Help?

new to arducopter

hi im new to arducopter and i want to know how to begin with?

Radio Trims Behavior

New to ArduCopter and trying to simulate using FlightGear

Can we install ArduCopter_2_0_43 on linux?

Logs

Faulty System, suggestions appreciated.

hints for basic good pids for hexa (+) with 880kv , 12" props and v 2.0.40 loaded

Can you guys take a look at my preparing list and questions for my first arducopter? Thanks

About the Arducopter's ' ''canopy ''

Setup of Heli

do I need to recalibrate the ESCs if I use a different battery?

help how do i reprogram the outputs on ardupilot mega

xbee connection to the apm

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