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Male


About Me:

Northeastern University student working on capstone project to create a drone that will track and follow a radio transmitter using doppler direction finding techniques.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

School Project


Hometown:

Boston


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Ben posted a discussion
Hello,I am currently working on a project to autonomously fly a quadcopter by having an arduino mega board send waypoints to the APM.  I have looked through the Mavlink API and noticed that there is a a function "mavlink_msg_mission_item_send" which…
Apr 7, 2013
Ben posted a discussion
Hello,I have recently been able to fly my quadcopter for the first time, and have a few questions about the additional inputs to the APM.  From the wiki, I know that to fly the APM requires only 4 channels and an optional 5th one for mode switch. …
Mar 12, 2013
Ben replied to Ben's discussion Beginning tests using Mavlink
"I've found this https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/qgroundcontrol/K_8FIQVGqaU which seems to be someone having the exact same issue.  He seemed to be able to solve it by updating his mavlink library to a new one provided here:…"
Feb 26, 2013
Ben posted a discussion
Hello,I was unsure of the correct forum to post this discussion and I figured unassigned fit the bill, please let me know if I should move this.Recently I have been working on a school project to control the APM from a second arduino board.  I have…
Feb 25, 2013
Ben replied to Ben's discussion No Heartbeat Packets Received with 3dr 915MHz modules
"Hello,
I have still been unable to get telemetry data from my APM to the ground station software with the 3DR radios. 
Recently, I noticed on the xbee page of the wiki (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/APM2Wireless) there is a section on…"
Feb 22, 2013
Ben posted a discussion
Hello,I have recently been working on a project that will be using a second on-board micro controller to create and send  MavLink packets to the APM2.5 to tell it where to go.  To do this I hope to read MavLink data from the telemetry port, and then…
Feb 20, 2013
Ben posted a discussion
Hello,for a school project me and some friends are trying to create a drone using the APM 2.5 and our own direction finding circuit.  We will be using a second arduino Mega 2560 board which is doing all the processing for collision detection around…
Feb 12, 2013
Ben replied to Ben's discussion No Heartbeat Packets Received with 3dr 915MHz modules
"As mentioned above, I have tried to connect the radio to the UART0 pins on the board as opposed to the radio port and have been able to successfully connected to the board, however this is at a baud rate of 115 not the 57 that the radio config says…"
Feb 5, 2013
Ben posted a discussion
I have recently bought the AMP 2.5, with the 900MHz 3DR radio and I have yet to be able to connect the APM to the ground station with the arducoptor code.  I know that this is not an issue with the radios themselves as I have been able to connect…
Jan 29, 2013