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About
Location
Leatherhead, Surrey
About Me:
Born and live in London, England. Majored in Physics and Applied Optics. I earn a living as a software developer. I'm very interested in the "Maker" phenomenon
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I have built 2 drones using the apm2. My latest drone has a Tarot gimbal with a Mobius camera and a 5.8Gz FPV setup.
Hometown:
Leatherhead
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"Without more detail I can only make one suggestion:
With propellers disconnected there is very little resistance torque so the motors spin up very easily. Any slight differences in the ESC calibrations can cause some motors to stop near to throttle…"
With propellers disconnected there is very little resistance torque so the motors spin up very easily. Any slight differences in the ESC calibrations can cause some motors to stop near to throttle…"
"I am finding this Radiolink module to be much better than my previous Chinese clone ublox M8N GPS module. Positional drift on the ground is within a metre with around 15 satellites. I hope this means I wont have to climb over fences and wade through…"
"Sounds like the way to go. As a software developer I really do appreciate the amount of work that has gone into the Ardupilot project. Many thanks.
I wonder if there are any plans for changes in collaboration with ground station software i.e.…"
I wonder if there are any plans for changes in collaboration with ground station software i.e.…"
"Regarding your bad ARHS readings with the Pixhawk, I just want to remind you about the barometer sunlight problem as you said you are using your own 3D printed case.
(with the APM2 I could get baro drift by shining a maglite torch onto the…"
(with the APM2 I could get baro drift by shining a maglite torch onto the…"
"Hi Tim
I had the same issue. I was able to change the flight mode channel in the Pixhawk firmware but you have to install the Pixhawk Eclipse development environment and change some of the source code.
Go into Arducopter Parameters.cpp and…"
I had the same issue. I was able to change the flight mode channel in the Pixhawk firmware but you have to install the Pixhawk Eclipse development environment and change some of the source code.
Go into Arducopter Parameters.cpp and…"
"It has been frustrating getting my quad to fly with the Pixhawk (from the APM) and now I have hit this Emax ESC problem as well.
I am thinking of
a) removing the (pullup/pulldown?) resistor & capacitor as suggested by Aldo Vargas
OR
b) dead bug…"
I am thinking of
a) removing the (pullup/pulldown?) resistor & capacitor as suggested by Aldo Vargas
OR
b) dead bug…"
"I have got half a solution:
In the [AUX-CH] menu set the CH5 setting to "HOV THRO" or "HOV PIT" will allow you to set the Pixhawk flight mode using one of the potentiometers on the top of the transmitter."
In the [AUX-CH] menu set the CH5 setting to "HOV THRO" or "HOV PIT" will allow you to set the Pixhawk flight mode using one of the potentiometers on the top of the transmitter."
" 0.01113195 is an approximate coefficient to calculate the length of a degree of latitude:
ATAN2 returns radians. The 9000 and 5729.57795 converts an angle in radians to a bearing in centi-degrees. This is stored as an int32 to avoid floating point…"
ATAN2 returns radians. The 9000 and 5729.57795 converts an angle in radians to a bearing in centi-degrees. This is stored as an int32 to avoid floating point…"
"mP1, I am using the APM2 controller to drive the esc's. I haven't got my own solution to driving the esc's yet. I will certainly take a look at what you are suggesting if I ever get round to it. The APM2 has so much functionality that I might try…"
"Rob, I bought the charger from a Singapore eBay supplier and I really dont know if its fake or not. The battery was slightly puffed up and almost charged and I thought I would top it up, then I forgot about it for a couple of hours (there's the…"
Recently I started to get interested in the Arduino open source micro-controller project. I bought an amazing little sensor board from ebay called the GY-80 which has 10DOF (degrees of freedom) and can be bought for £10.The GY-80 IMU (Inertial…
