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• MR60

  Hugues May 4, 2015 at 12:28pm

  @Tom,Niall, thx for your advice's. What online shop sells this e-maxx chassis and NEU motor?
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  Antonie Kruger May 4, 2015 at 2:18am

  @Niall, that's great. Made my day:)
  You should paint some spots on the robot and replace the beep with a bark - would sound less like a south African taxi and more like a herding dog. I like your design.
  Thanks for sharing.
  Antonie
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  Niall Dempsey May 4, 2015 at 1:55am

  @Hugues,

  I built a custom robot for my farm a few years ago. The farm is all grass and has some slopes but no really rough terrain and after a few attempts I found that a 2 wheels driven by 11 amp wheelchair motors worked very well. FarmBoz Youtube

  If I can be of any further assistance let me know.
• Admin

  Thomas J Coyle III May 3, 2015 at 12:22pm

  @Hugues,

  Forget the Wild Thumper as it uses the motor sleeve bearings to support the wheels.

  I would go with a 4WD chassis like the Traxxas 1/8 scale E-Maxx with the brushless NEU motor and four wheel independent suspension with bearing supported half shafts.

  You might even want to consider a 1/5 scale 4WD chassis that can carry bigger batteries for longer range and has a suspension that can get over the field furrows:-)

  Regards,

  Tom C AVD
• MR60

  Hugues May 3, 2015 at 12:04pm

  Hello,

  I have to investigate on a rover platform for a customer who will use it in agriculture fields & forests dirt. What platform would you advise me to investigate : a wild thumper ? a tank tracked chassis ?

  thx
• Richard Sterling April 8, 2015 at 9:56am

  Thanks, Mark and Grant.

  I removed Mission planner, APM2, QCGround control. Re-loaded Mission Planner and now its all working again.

  Good to know about the Geo Fencing (the large circles I see in Mission Planner).

  Thanks again guys

  RS
• mark sahf April 7, 2015 at 10:09am

  Richard, in your comment regarding Geo-fencing around airports. Is that the info you see in Mission Planner and others alike? I dont know if its a real geo-fence or just the 5 mile circle around the airport showing the no-fly zone? That was my understanding I didn't hear anything about it triggering a failsafe etc. I could see no fail safe's setup and a airport geo fence just dropping drones out of the sky.
• Developer

  Grant Morphett April 6, 2015 at 5:46pm

  Hi Richard.  I don't know what the password prompt is.  I think there are instructions to install in administrator mode - is that the prompt your seeing?

  Whilst the circles are drawn around the airports I don't believe anything is enforced.  They are there to alert users they shouldn't be flying in that space.  I have only tested in SITL but I can fly straight into the circle and over my local airport no problem.  Not something I would do in a real vehicle!

  Thanks, Grant.
• Richard Sterling April 6, 2015 at 1:50pm

  I also notice that there is now geofencing (been away a while) around airports.

  I don't really know how this works I assume it executes return to land if you fly into that zone?

  If so how does that effect us rovers?

  I live near an Airport in Auckland, it is used once or twice a month (on a good month). We have a golf course on it. 

  So to me it seems a little strange that we can play golf on the air field but I can't use my rover.

  Any info would be much appreciated?

  Cheers,

  Richard
• Richard Sterling April 6, 2015 at 1:40pm

  Has anyone else come across this:

  I have just installed Mission Planner (msi latest version) and now if I hit "initial setup" or Config/tuning i am asked for a password.

  I have never had this before.

  Has anyone had this or more importantly how can I get rid of it?

  Cheers,

  RS