I am selling my photoshipone 2x gimbal: http://photoshipone.com/products/2x/
I will be very honest. I was not pleased with the tolerances of this product when it came to me around a year ago. That being said, it does work as advertised, but was a pain
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My telemetry stopped working recently. When I attempt to connect using the Mission Planner at 57600 baud rate, it times out. When I look at the command prompt output it looks like it isn't receiving any packets of data. I used the un-brick
Read more…Does anyone have experience with running FlightGear as a HIL simulator for ArduCopter?
FlightGear launches and I see the quad on the runway, but when I use my radio to arm the motors and take off, nothing happens.
Thanks for your time.
Read more…Flying latest stable release.
I armed my octo with a 3d gps fix and started to fly in simple mode. This is one of my first times flying in simple mode so I was just trying to get a feel for it and start to "trust" the APM to handle the direction. It w
Read more…Does anyone know how to configure APM to use infinite servos with camera stabilization? I have the photoshipone 2x gimbal.
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I purchased a Shuttercable from Quadrocopter.us (http://shop.quadrocopter.us/Shuttercable_p_309.html). I was wondering if anyone has this working with the APM?
I'm not sure where to start with this.... I think I need to locate 5v/3.3v swit
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I am running the latest MP and ACM code but for some reason the Mission Planner cannot read the data properly from the ACM board. All I get on the screen is a bunch of random characters like ???D/?c/?. I triple checked that the slider is i
Read more…USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I haven't tested this myself yet. Perhaps someone with more experience in the codebase could review this.
I am attaching a zip of the files I modified to add a Position Hold mode to ArduCopter. This is essentially the same as Lo
Read more…Has anyone out there arrived at an elegant solution for power distribution in an octo configuration? Right now I have two rings of copper wire (pos/neg) and about 10 leads soldered to each. Then on the ends I have Dean's connectors. It is functional,
Read more…Has anyone ever experienced a motor not being able to spin up? It just sort of jitters back and forth like its trying to start, but wont spin up. The weird thing is that if I disconnect and reconnect power, the problem goes away. It is only about 1 i
Read more…I just flew my maiden flight with my new, totally custom octocopter. Everything worked really well except that I entered into a heavy oscillation, which I was able to recover from. Does anyone have any advice for PIDs for such a frame? My frame is al
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I noticed that the latest 2.0.39 code is not out on the downloads section of the arducopter wiki... is there any chance someone could post that? I am having trouble getting my ardupilot mega to link up to the APM and I figure I
Read more…Hello all. I was wondering if anyone knew how to implement camera stabilization for Pan (Yaw) and Tilt (Pitch)?
I was thinking I would use channel 6 for Tilt (Pitch), 7 for Pan (Yaw) from my RC receiver to the APM and then APM outputs 5 (Tilt) and 6
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I have an octocopter setup and I am wondering if there is a way to set the frame type from the CLI. I know you can set the frame type in the config file, but I don't want to run the latest beta code, which is the only code I saw on the download
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I am curious what the appropriate setup would be to monitor a 3s 2p or 3s 4p lipo setup? Would it be best to monitor the overall voltage by running a positive lead off the battery to AN0 and a negative lead off the battery to the adjacent
Read more…Does anyone have any experience connecting a Futaba trainer box to a Futaba radio for camera gimbal control? I have been combing my Futaba 10CAG manual for instructions on assigning different channels to the sticks on the trainer, but so far I have n
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I have a pretty simple question (hopefully). I am currently building an octocopter and none of my ESCs have a built in BEC, so I am going to run a CC BEC Pro (20A max). My question is this: If I use the BEC to power my Futaba Receiver, and
Read more…I was reading through the APM documentation and I didn't see support for a contra / coaxial quadcopter setup (8 motors / 8 props total). Is that something that might be added in the near future? Is it easy enough to modify existing configurations to
Read more…Hi all. I'm completely new to the autonomy scene so forgive my ignorance. I would like to make a quadcopter with contra rotating props on each axis on the quadcopter. Is it possible to control this using the ArduPilot Mega board? I am a software arch
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