Hey all,
I'm looking for a multicopter to do some mapping & surveying missions.
First I've wanted to buy an Iris+, but I've contacted 3DR and they told me that they would not do anymore the 433Mhz version.
So I'm thinking to buy the Solo. Do you have an
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I'm a GIS consultant and I've already bought a fixed wing for mapping and surveying. While a fixed wing is great it can't be use in all situations. This is why I'm looking to buy an affordable multicopter. Right now my choice is the Solo or th
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A friend of mine took some picture from a microflight plane. He asked me if it was possible to create a panorama from the pictures. I've tried the autopano software, IMCE, etc. but the results were not good enough (parallax errors, etc.).
Then
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I've got two cameras, a Canon SX260HS and a Sony Nex N.
I would like to use one of them in my next multirotor and I'm looking for a gimbal.
I want to use the multirotor for GIS purposes, so the gimbal must be able to be pointed straight to the
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As some of you may know I've tried to do my first flight test today.
It was not why I call a success. In fact it was exactly the contrary :(
I was not even able to take off !
I bought a plane because it was more suitable for taking aerial pic
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This is probably not the best section to post my question but you have always gave so many good advices...
So, depending on the weather, I should do my first flight test tomorrow.
I'm quite confident with the process and I already setup everyt
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After many difficulties, I've been able to connect my Transmitter to my APM.
I would like to setup my flight modes, but the mission planner indicates that my APM is listening on Channel 8 (Current PWM).
For the flight modes my receiver is link
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I've recently bought a Tx Spektrum DX6i and I would like to program it so I can switch from an APM flight modes to another.
I've follow the process describe by Paul but it doesn't seem to work for me.
When I go to the mission planner softwa
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I'm trying to understand how to use the grid functionality in the mission planner software.
As it's a new feature, there is not a lot of tutorials or information available.
The only one I found is :
http://planner.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-apm-
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I do a lot of programming stuffs and it's pretty common to include comments in the code to explain some parts of it.
I've been playing with mission planner and arduplane for a couple of weeks now and I'm surprised that there is no way to do t
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After reading so much of your posts, I've decided to buy as well a UAV. I'm a GIS engineer and I would like to use my UAV to take aerial pictures. As I'm pretty new to this domain, I've decided to buy the ready to fly UAV sell by 3D Robotics
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I'm a newbie in the RC and UAV domain, but I really wan to learn :)
This is why I've recently bought a ready to fly plane from 3D Robotics (https://store.3drobotics.com/products/3DR-ARF-APM:Plane).
I'm still in the process to u
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I you may know a new Nokia phone (Lumia 1020) is now available. The particularity of this phone is that it's equiped with a 41mp camera sensor [1]. Such features (weight, 41mp sensor) make me think that it could be perfect
