Is there a page that offers a collection of 3DRobotics and general DIYDrones graphics? My memory is trying to convince me that there was a page on the wiki that just had a collection of images of all the common components used in an aircraft build (
Read more…I made my first fully automated flight with my homemade quadcopter this evening, circling the in-laws' house. The flight was fully autonomous from takeoff to landing. A combination of the ArduCopter-3.1 upgrade and many practice flights over the la
Read more…I originally built my quadcopter using someone else's plans. It flew well, but I quickly found that it "needed" additional equipment (camera gimbal, GoPro, longer landing legs, FPV transmitter, etc.). These add-ons seem to have pushed the aircraft
Read more…So I decided to play around with eCalc a bit tonight. I plugged in the parameters of my current quadcopter and hit "calculate" only to find that eCalc says my configuration is no good. It estimates my hovering throttle to be 88%. I can say for sur
Read more…I'd really like to have some pieces laser cut for my quadcopter, but since I'm not willing to plop down several grand for a laser cutter, I'm looking for some options. Does anyone know of any laser cutting services where, for example, you can upload
Read more…I've been flying a home-built quadcopter for a little while now and am looking to get into aerial mapping with a fixed-wing. I really like the idea of the APM:Plane platform from 3DRobotics, but have a few questions that are holding me off from orde
Read more…I'm a completely new quad pilot who just spun up the motors on his homemade quadcopter for the first time today and started stepping through the "First Flight" exercises from the ArduCopter Wiki. I was working on achieving a stabile hover a few feet
Read more…I was sitting for quite some time last night playing with APM settings while running my quad off of battery power. I wasn't running motors or anything like that, just the APM and telemetry radio. In retrospect, that was silly. I should have just plug
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