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Read more…3. Autonomous vehicles and aircraft
Patrico said manufacturers such as Kinze have developed tractor-driven grain carts that don’t need drivers to pull alongside a combine and load up with grain harvested from the field. With th
We're moving to a new documentation platform and this is your opportunity to give us feedback and help. There has been a huge amount of work going on behind the scenes on these over the past three months, including the 30 volunteers working within th
Read more…This is a thread to submit ArduCopter configuration files (PID settings) for common airframes. Once they are reviewed, they will be placed in the manual here so that others may use them.
Along with your config file (saved from the Mission Planner),
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Jason is travelling this week, so I'll take the helm for the next software release post.
UPDATE: the motor remapping thing was confusing everyone, so we took that out and returned to the regular motor mapping. That means that APM 2 users with Hex
Read more…The Dev Team is working hard on the ArduCopter hardware and software roadmap. Here are some highlights: As I've mentioned before, the APM hardware roadmap (next 12 months) is to start moving to a 32-bit architecture along with the rest of the Arduin
Read more…My instinct is that we should always have around 40 active moderators. Some will drop off as life intrudes, so it's a good idea to add new ones from time to time.
One was is to invite them from the top rated member list. This is based on volume and
Read more…Folks, The Dev Team is working on the APM hardware and software roadmap. Here are some highlights: As I've mentioned before, the hardware roadmap (next 12 months) is to move to a 32-bit architecture along with the rest of the Arduino project. This
Read more…If you've got one of those freakish inexpensive ($59) Turnigy 9-Ch 2.4 RC sets, you'll note that despite good hardware the firmware leaves much to be desired. One mystery is why most of them beep at you and say "switch error" when you turn them on. F
Read more…Jordi and the team have diagnosed the issue users are having with the reset button on the ArduPilot Mega IMU shield not working. Here's what we've found:
I've seen a bunch of Tricopter projects along with all the usual Quadcoptes. Can anybody explain what the advantages of a Tricopter are? I can see that it's one less motor/ESC, along with the weight that comes with that, but that's at the cost of req
Read more…The DIY Drones and Sparkfun teams are thinking about selling and supporting one of the quadcopter platforms. But there are dozens of them out there--which one should we choose?
This is a forum to discuss the creation of a community-designed UAV airframe that can be put into production. Once the basic scope and core participants of the projects have been decided on, we can move the project to a Huddle workspace for the actua
Read more…This is forum for teams that will be participating in the FIRST Robotics League aerial robotics demonstration in Atlanta on April 17-18.
Read more…This is the place to discuss the new open source IMU-based autopilot board by Bill Premerlani.
I'm trying to read the SCP1000 barometric sensor with Arduino, and I'm just getting zeros with this code. (the author got the same thing and apparently found a solution but never posted it :-( ) The sensor uses the SPI interface, which has some trick
Read more…Now that we're getting bigger and sharing more code on this site, I'd like to find something better than putting random files in discussion responses. Has anyone had enough experience with the various code repositories out there to recommend one that
Read more…[I'm reposting a discussion started by Jonathan, unfortunately in all caps. Jonathan, we don't allow all-caps contributions here, so I've edited yours into the correct format. --CA] Hopefully I can get some help! I just recieved my picopilot-na and
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