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Male
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Location
Chippenham, Wiltshire
About Me:
I am a born again RC Heli (and occasional plank) guy. 22 years ago was flying a Kalt Baron. Stopped when 1st child arrived. Started helis again earlier this year and love it. I am in the software business although I am no programmer.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm interested in UAV, from 3 perspectives. 1. Video 2. Autonomous flight - just the geek in me I suppose 3. FPV. This looks seriously cool and adds greatly to control over video
Hometown:
Chippenham
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I have been interested for a while in the possibility of creating a VTOL fixed wing which transitions into forward flight after a vertical take off using multirotors. Finding this article prompted me to post this to ask whether this could be…
"A follow on question. Should I plan to install APM firmware on the Pixhawk or run the Pix4 firmware? Again, this is specifically to fly photogrammetry missions, so need to be able to plan & fly a grid pattern, trigger photos at the right times etc.…"
"Thanks for your reply Iskess. I will need logging to pick up GPS altitude and attitude data for each triggered cam shot. So it may be that Pixhawk is the way to go on this account.
So, if I go with Pixhawk will I be able to everything that is…"
So, if I go with Pixhawk will I be able to everything that is…"
Some advice please. I need to take an informed decision on whether to purchase a Pixhawk or an APM 2.6.I intend to fly fixed wing photogrammetry missions. As such I need full functionality on the Mission Planner and to be able to log GPS position…
I am probably being stupid on this, but am I right in thinking that the way RTL works is that when invoked it will return to Home as defined in the Mission Planner?If this is the case then would it not be more useful for RTL to return to the GPS…
"OK, loaded AC2 (x mode) this afternoon and she flies. I'm using a Jakub frame with Arducopter 880 motors and 10x4.5 props and it does need a bit of tuning. It's too windy to do anything useful with it today. I tried alt hold and loiter and it did…"
Has anyone successfully run AC2 on a Hex? Or should I wait for a while?
"Hi Dave. I'm not too surprised. No worries."
"Update on this problem. It seems like the APM was indeed faulty. A new one plugged into the Olipan worked just fine and my upgrade quad is flying. Thanks again to everyone who helped me on this."
"Thanks everyone for taking the time to look at this for me.
I have separated the Oilpan from the APM and connected to the APM directly; still does not work. At least this means that I probably only have a bad APM, not the (expensive) Oilpan.
I am…"
I have separated the Oilpan from the APM and connected to the APM directly; still does not work. At least this means that I probably only have a bad APM, not the (expensive) Oilpan.
I am…"
"Just noticed a couple of things in the CLI.
1. If I do a 'Calibrate min throttle value' it returns a value of 1200 irrespective of the position of the throttle stick
2. If I do a ''Motor tester with AIL/ELE stick' it immediately comes up with…"
1. If I do a 'Calibrate min throttle value' it returns a value of 1200 irrespective of the position of the throttle stick
2. If I do a ''Motor tester with AIL/ELE stick' it immediately comes up with…"
Help please...I have spent a very frustrating day today trying to set up my Arducopter with the new motors (the optional 880kv ones from FahPah) and new Hobbywing Platinum ESCs. The APM was working fine with the original ESCs and motors.The problem…
I managed to shoot a short video today in the mist and murk that is the UK's weather right now. You can hear a single bad motor making a noise and glitching occasionally. In fact, at the end of the flight it glitches enough to flip the quad right…
"I have one motor that makes the same sort of noise. It glitches every now and again and creates excessive vibration. I have found a UK source for what looks like exactly the same motor and have one on order."
"Reloaded R2 and to the APM and it recognised X config. I guess I must have made an error somewhere in the sketch.
Managed several flights in stable mode. Worked well, very stable in fact :-)."
Managed several flights in stable mode. Worked well, very stable in fact :-)."
I have finished building my pre-soldered ArduCopter. I loaded RC2 as 1.4 (which was pre-installed) seems to be out of date now. Could someone please help me with the following issues?1. I set everything up before plugging in my Mtek GPS 3329. Once I…
