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Male


Location

Ostergotland


About Me:

Musician Photographer Quad- and soon OctoCopter flyer IT-Professional


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Building a OctoCopter based on a Tarot IRON Man T100 Frame PixHawk Graupner Mz-24


Hometown:

Norrköping


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Anders Wikstrom replied to Nathan Jones's discussion Standard Settings for PixHawk Rover Skid Steering + Sabertooth in ArduRover User Group
"Thomas J Coyle III said:
@Nathan,
If memory serves me right, the Pixhawk skid steering outputs were on Servo Output pins 1 and 2, but I was using a Spektrum Satellite Receiver on the Pixhawk Spektrum input and not a Futaba receiver on the SBus…"
Oct 16, 2017
Anders Wikstrom replied to Nathan Jones's discussion Standard Settings for PixHawk Rover Skid Steering + Sabertooth in ArduRover User Group
"It seems very strange!I can check this next week when I'm back if no other has helped with this.Althogh I use Graupner there should be no difference. Port 1 and 3 are connected in my setup.
To give you all info i have to connect to the system but I…"
Oct 16, 2017
Anders Wikstrom replied to Peter Gerber's discussion Pixhawk Lite V2.4.6 Controlling problems in PIXHAWK
"It can also be caused by plastic propellers. Try carbon fiber ones. They are far stiffer. That can make a huge difference.

AndersSweden"
Oct 4, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Steve Bramah's discussion telemetry problems in PIXHAWK
"3DR has a utility 3DRadio.exe. It's a free software to talk to the radios over USB.Make sure the Baud-rate is correct (and the same) for radio and controller in the vehicle end and the radio and Mission planner in the other (local) end.All radio…"
Sep 13, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Cala's discussion New generation Esc to update? in ArduCopter User Group
"It should be no problem but be aware that there is no BEC. That means they will not power your controller and receiver. If you have a separate BEC that's fine.
Why not buy one and test?

Anders
Sweden"
Sep 12, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to John's discussion a Powerful Robust Antenna tracker using the Pixhawk and Mission Planner
"1. You set this in the configuration as SERVO_XXX_TYPE where XXX is PITCH or YAW
2. As above
3. The Pixhawk is to move as the antenna. Otherwise acc and gyros will not work. If the attached GPS has a compass it should be placed to move with the…"
Aug 29, 2016
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Jul 24, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Lane Barry's discussion Dual Motor Drive Boat (Rover) setup in ArduRover User Group
"No! Two motors on each side connected in parallel.
Turning means that the motors on one side have different speed or direction than on the other side.
A boat would run quite equally without any rudder. Adding a rudder would add complexity."
Jun 30, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Doug Walmsley's discussion Does ArduRover Support 6-Wheeled Rocker-Bogie Vehicles? in ArduRover User Group
"I have seen your pictures and the movie. How do you intend to steer?
If your rover can use skid-steering all you have to do is connecting all motor on each side to the same output. For DC-motors you can have one driver and connect the motors in…"
Jun 29, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Lane Barry's discussion Dual Motor Drive Boat (Rover) setup in ArduRover User Group
"It can't be different than the rover!
Channel 1 & 3 as on the rover and the same setup.Map the outputs of your transmitter or the pixhawk so it works as you want.There should be no problem doing this!

I run my rover with one stick. It's very handy.…"
Jun 29, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Warren Purnell's discussion Copter yaw orientation changes when Modes changed in ArduCopter User Group
"How about the throttle?
I regularly switching modes without problems. It appears that your copter want to descend.
You may have to post your log, then someone can probably help you.

Anders"
Jun 7, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Hugues's discussion Ardurover former wiki documentation available ? in ArduRover User Group
"You have run into the same issue I saw.Arming has been integrated in the Rover but not correctly. You have two options:
Arm the rover. It should work
Set ARMING_REQUIRED to False (0)

Anders"
May 22, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Hugues's discussion Ardurover former wiki documentation available ? in ArduRover User Group
"Servos has to be connected to Port 1 and Port 3 in Skid Steering

Anders"
May 21, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to AndyL's discussion Rover based on power wheelchair, Sabertooth and Pixhawk in PIXHAWK
"OK! I can fix a hand-written schematics of this. Can you PM me your email address.
Anders"
May 3, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to AndyL's discussion Rover based on power wheelchair, Sabertooth and Pixhawk in PIXHAWK
"I have an autonomous rover project that runs: Pixhawk, GPS and 2x25A Sabertooth. It was running great last summer but currently there is a bug in the firmware preventing skid steering to work, at least in manual mode. (it works fine if I use an…"
May 1, 2016
Anders Wikstrom replied to Anders Wikstrom's discussion Skid steering issue in PIXHAWK
"I tried Manual mode with 2016-05-02 firmware and still no success!
Why can't this be corrected? It has been working before

Anders"
May 1, 2016
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