I have been promoting my business around St. Petersburg Florida the last month, setting up sales booths at the Clearwater Super Boat Race and Watt Fest. My time down here has been a huge learning experience with great results. Big than
I changed APM for a Pixhawk (chinesse) and now, telemetry works with Tower but in OSD doesn't show values (current, gps, rssi, etc. All looks in 0, I check and re-check connections, I change rx and Tx wires in case, but nothing, any ideas what have w
How do you Calculate what battery to use on a HJ 450 with APM 2.6, OSD, GPS, DJI motors, LEDS, FPV, Gopro has it's own battery but I do have an FPV CMOS camera as well. I was thinking 4S but the guy at Drones Plus said I could use a 3s, I don't belei
I'm currently building an Alien 680 Frame and looking around for ideas on mounting the ESC's, FC etc., I noticed several using xHawks and they mount it inside the frame with the power wires surrounding it underneath the frame.
Running a little survey last thursday looking for some Giant Hogweed and seemingly all went well with the flights (running a Vulcan Octocopter using Pixhawk with arducopter 3.2.1). However on checking the log for the third and final flight of
I'm running a DFI-550 Flamewheel style hexacopter with a Pixhawk controller. I have just started running missions by arming the unit, flippimg to Auto on the TX, then raising the throttle stilck to take off. Works great!
Compass inconsistency. This is a PixHawk Lite with an M8N GPS. The external compass is on top and pointed in the right direction. Both compasses calibrate. They show up the the parameter list with Id's and offsets. But, in the main window in MP only t
Hi, I need some help! When i put my quad in a circle of radius 0, they turn around , but fall suddenly 4 meters approx, stop turn, recovery height and continue turn. There are any parameter to correct this drop? Thanks.
Recently, I was asked to shoot some stills and footage of a sportfishing yacht for a client. We went out on a beautiful morning with no wind and an almost perfectly calm ocean. If you wanted optimal conditions, its wasn't going to get much better tha
I'm trying to change the APM to a Pixhawk on my copter, I have a gps and external compass so I didn't ask for a combine one, I was reading instructions and see that says that ext compass isn't compatible with Pix but the two ones are 3.3? It's not po
I have two Xbee Pro 2, one with USB adapter and one with the Xtremebee adapter form Jdrones. When I connect my APM v1.4a from Jdrones and a IMU Shield/OilPan RevH V1.0 to Mission Planner, MP can not read the parameters, and the message screen show "g
I have a APM v1.4a from Jdrones and a IMU Shield/OilPan RevH V1.0.
The problem is when i connect my GPS, Mission Planner says "NO FIX" and the blue light of the GPS module is always on. I tried to go outside to get satelite signal, but nothing happens
I changed the frame of my quadcopter and due to that the weight increased to nearly 3 kgs. During this I changed the motors and battery from 3S to 4S. Now, by the motor datasheet the copter should have enough lift to take off but with max thrott
I'm assembling a quadcopter using APM 2.6, I have everything connected properly, I have calibrated the ESC one by one, and setup the APM using the wizard on mission planner, also I tested the motors one by one and everything looks to be fine, ho