I played with APM way back when, but none of that experience seems relevant now. I'm a first time builder for practical purposes.
My setup should be pretty straightforward:
The pla
Read more…I'm trying to control an APM using Mavlink and a joystick.
I understand that the Mavlink message I need to send for this is RC_CHANNELS_OVERRIDE. Some of the fields in this message are obscure to me.
I notice that Mission Planner sets SystemID=255 and
Read more…I'm parsing MAVLINK 1.0 for my ground station.
From MAVLINK documentation, I understand that the protocol uses little-endian encoding on the wire. This assumption produces meaningful data for a lot of packets. However some packets make no sense in LE
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I want to build a ground station around a Raspberry Pi that can display basic telemetry.
Initially at least, I want to read only a minimal set of attributes, essentially what com
Read more…I'm trying to program my APM to fly to waypoint A, fly to waypoint B, return to A, return to B, etc., indefinitely. The simple approaches I've tried with a single jump command don't work: the plane ignores my jump instruction and returns home after v
Read more…I'm looking at the Servo Switch in the DIY Drones store (https://store.diydrones.com/ServoSwitch_V10_p/br-0007-01.htm ) and I notice that "firmware" ZIP contains only one C file, Fail_Safe.c. The source seems to mention MUXs and controlling Megas andRead more…
