Hello Folks,
My children and I are in the early planning stages of our first drone project. What we have is a second hand, dirty, Traxxas Revo 3.3. What we would like to do with this is:
When vehicle starts, it apparently thinks it is at half throttle. There is no reverse. There is no neutral at half throttle. I have to pull the throttle all the way back to stop the vehicle. I am using the center-loaded elevator stick for the thro
Read more…Hi everyone. The ardupilot team is delighted to announce the release of version 2.48 of APM:Rover.
In case anyone needs to manually download the beta release its here - http://firmware.diydrones.com/Rover/stable/
This is a picture of the rover Tridg
Read more…Hi everyone. We have just released version 2.48beta1 of APM:Rover.
This is a picture of a Maxstone 10 rock crawler - or in this case dining room table crawler. Its been built by TradHeli expert and ArduPilot developer Robert Lefebvre. He's a secret
Read more…OK - Does anyone have definition of what the rover firmware was built on?
I have been all over the net trying to locate the default system information for the 2.4.7 firmware. Ultimately, I need to build a new platform, Autostart ID, and custom mixers.
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I am currently building an RC/Autonomous Mower and have some questions I could use some help with.
Currently I have the mower fabrication complete and as of yesterday I have the mower driving around in RC Mode!
(I have attached a few quick ph
Read more…How to start make an autonomous rover so what i need about the components please explain me sir so that i can start my work. so please provide me a which type of transmitter an receiver or any other interface with the rover and required for the job p
Read more…Has anyone made the rover into a roving security system? I have hacked Roomba and reprogramed with a tether I make then removed parts not needed and added security items and programed it to guard the halls. because its large top it made a good platfo
Read more…I know there has been some discussion about reverse pathing and navigation, something I am very interested in. Anyone who has run a full sized vehicle in a ditch knows how important this can be for self recovery of the unmanned asset. And, consider
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I'm trying to design and build an "open source" radar system. The premise is that while we have the hacked Neato and the RoboPeak system, I've not found anything for outdoor use. So I've built this scanner pictured below.
The parts list
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I'm looking into things to improve my AVC performance for the next competition. My current idea is using a secondary processing unit for some OpenCV object recognition (specifically, the barrels). Last year, I used a single sonar and forced
Read more…I understand that the SBUS output on the Pixhawk is NOT currently enabled. Does anyone know when this may happen and will it simply send the Pixhawk output signals or also passthrough the incoming signals from the RC sbus input ?
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I've finally managed to make enough progress to get to a point where it's worth sharing my project. Allow me to introduce Mog-Y!
So, the purpose of Mog-Y is to provide an experimental platform to develop an architecture for autonomous vehicl
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Sorry for the dumb R/C question but I'm a newcomer when it comes to this R/C stuff.
I'm trying to make a 4WD rover using APM2.6.
I have an eight channel receiver but I can figure out how to give power to the receiver.
The receiver can accept from
Read more…So, I pulled out the ole Ruckus last night and put the good ole APM on it again. I have everything plugged up and I go to test it. Did the radio calibration and went to see if everything was responding right. To my surprise, the steering works, but t
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Having done this many years ago when developing in the fastest RC car on earth challenge with my friend Wolfgang soon after Kalman had released his specs on sensors in the early 2000s I wondered when this would hit the commercial market on a RTR car.
Read more…I read somewhere the official 2.46 had track steering problems. I understand the current beta fixes that issue. Many thanks to all developers. But the current beta now seems to have disabled the GPS's. Since I'm working with Piksis, I really don't kn
Read more…Let me ask a silly question.
I'm trying to build a custom R/C controller to control my rover.
What sticks are used to control a 4wd rover with skid steering ?
can someone explain what the left stick does and what the right ?
Read more…Perhaps only the developers can answer this question. What is the resolution of the GPS2 input on the PIXHAWK ? If we had a decimeter precision GPS would the Pixhawk correctly use the higher precision NMEA lat/lon message ? Somewhere, I recall a disc
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