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Anderson Carredias commented on Craig Issod's blog post 2016 Overview of the Civilian Drone Market
"Rob, the E384 is a fixed wing at 2499. The 386 is 8 grand"
Jan 15, 2016
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion Copter SITL Linux
"Figured out the error. when I type make sitl, I get a bunch of errors after
Building /tmp/ArduCopter.build/ArduCopter.elf%% ArduCopter.elf
These errors are
/tmp/ArduCopter.build/ArduCopter.o: In function…"
Nov 22, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion Copter SITL Linux
"I'm currently using option 1 of your suggestions.
Building sitl// BUILDROOT=/tmp/ArduCopter.build HAL_BOARD=HAL_BOARD_SITL HAL_BOARD_SUBTYPE=HAL_BOARD_SUBTYPE_NONE TOOLCHAIN=NATIVE EXTRAFLAGS=-DGIT_VERSION="802ced20"
~/ardupilot/ArduCopter
Starting…"
Nov 22, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion Copter SITL Linux
"I followed the tutorial and ran the 

ardupilot/Tools/scripts/install-prereqs-ubuntu.sh -y

and then did
make sitl
and it returned.
// BUILDROOT=/tmp/ArduCopter.build HAL_BOARD=HAL_BOARD_SITL HAL_BOARD_SUBTYPE=HAL_BOARD_SUBTYPE_NONE TOOLCHAIN=NATIVE…"
Nov 22, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion Copter SITL Linux
"Hey Bill, I did the following

sudo apt-get install realpathgit checkout Copter-3.3

git pull

went into the ArduCopter directory and ran sim_vehicle.sh -w
then I ran sim_vehicle.sh without the aircraft parameter.
Here's the output


Building…"
Nov 16, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion Copter SITL Linux
"Yep, I first ran that to erase the EEPROM and then ran the sim_vehicle with the aircraft and map parameters. Even the first command(sim_vehicle.sh -w) complains about the heartbeat. (It creates the .o files and then does the parameters process and…"
Nov 16, 2015
Anderson Carredias posted a discussion
I've setup SITL exactly as mentioned in the wiki. After running sim_vehicle.sh --console --map --aircraft testI receive the messageMAV> Waiting for heartbeat from tcp:127.0.0.1:5760I'm unable to do anything in the SITL because of this. Can anyone…
Nov 15, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion MP Pointing Wrong Direction
"Thanks Crady you've been super helpful, I got rol_180_yaw_45 work for me. I'll try out a flight today and let you know how it goes. Do you fly a wing too?"
Aug 15, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion MP Pointing Wrong Direction
"The reason I ask for a photo is because my m8n didn't come with an arrow :( I was wondering how you positioned yours."
Aug 14, 2015
Anderson Carredias replied to Anderson Carredias's discussion MP Pointing Wrong Direction
"Thank you, could you send me a picture of the forward facing direction for the orientation of roll 180, yaw 270? It'd be very helpful!"
Aug 14, 2015
Anderson Carredias posted a discussion
Hi Guys , I've been using the APM 2.6 (No internal compass) with the NEO-M8N GPS+Compass via I2C. My compass directions are very inconsistent. I've done calibration several times but the direction is wrong. When I point north -> Heading shows north…
Aug 14, 2015
Anderson Carredias commented on Jesper Andersen's blog post An Autopilot in the clouds - part 6.5
"I see , so let me get this straight. The banana pi talks to the ardupilot which in-turn has sensors connected to it. The connection over GSM happens via banana pi's USB-3G-Modem/Dronecell over XMPP to your laptop?
Cool , I can see how latency is…"
Feb 24, 2015
Anderson Carredias commented on Jesper Andersen's blog post An Autopilot in the clouds - part 6.5
"Very interesting , 
1- How are you talking to the UTV1 over GSM? Do you have something like a raspberry pi connected over telem2 port?
2- What about the video feature you were talking about?"
Feb 24, 2015