Cool Dude's Discussions

Nitro Heli Vibration!! Need help.

Dear Diydrone members, I am stuck and I really hope that one of you might be able to help me. As indicated in my previous post I am able to successfully build and fly a 450 size electric heli. I have a 50 size nitro heli and I wanted to make it aut

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Traditional heli build.

The traditional heli wiki has a page on how to setup traditional heli. However it is very old and it talks of APM 2.X rather than the current PixHawk. I build a traditional heli and it fly’s pretty good. For other people who might want to build th

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DF13 cables

Now that 3DR no longer carries DF13 cables, many people are having trouble getting hold on to them. So I am starting a thread where hopefully people who have information can share where we can get this from.

Some Chinese vendors do provide pre-crim

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Can we remove sonar from optical flow sensor ? (Answered )

The documentation states that the sonar in the optical flow sensor is not accurate enough, so it needs LIDAR. I am using pulse light LIDAR. My question is can be remove the sonar in the optical flow sensor. I ask this because I plan to use another

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HIL simulation not working using latest ( ver 1.3.25 ) mission planner.

The HIL simulation using APM 2.5 was working great. However today I updated the mission planner to the latest version ( 1.3.25) and it does not work anymore. I switch back to the previous version ( 1.3.17) I was using, and it works fine. So it appea

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Sonar Mount for newer 3D Quad.

The new 3D robotics quad Kit does not come with sonar mount bar. In that case, I was wondering how people install the sonar on it. I have a Sonar mount from the old quad but it does not fit in the new quad. I was wondering how other people have ins

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3 set of APM 1.0 for sale.

I have upgraded all my vehicles to APM2.5 or PIX HAWK. Which means that the old APM 1.0 I had are lying on my bench unused. They are perfeclty good pieces of hardware and I am sure some one can put it to good use. So if you want it please let me kn

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SimonK firmware for the old 3DRobotics ESC.

I have some of the old ESC's shipped by 3dRobotics. It does not have the SimonK firmware. I was wondering if I can flash it with the SiminK firmware. If yes then what setting do we use to build the firmware. By “setting”, I mean what is this type

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No boot loader installed in the Mega2560 ?

I got a brand new APM1 recently. I soldered it quickly. But when I tried to upload the firmware the mission planner could not detect the APM version. I have not debugged it completely bit seems that it does not have the boot loader. It also appear

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Optical flow not working using the test sketch ( SOLVED)

I got the 3D Robotics optical flow device few weeks back. Yesterday I soldered the connecters and loaded the sketch " AP_OpticalFlow_test.pde" to an Arduino mini pro. I selected digital pin 10 to be the chip select pin (NCS).

This does not work f

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brakes activated in one of the motors

Hello,

As indicated in the manual I programmed the ESC by connecting it directly to the throttle channel of the receiver. I connected all the 4 motor together so that it can be programmed simultaneously. It works fine however it appears that one

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Params file for the Quad

In the download area I see the params file for airplanes ( bixler, etc). However I do not see any params file for the Arducopter Quad. Mine is the 3D robotics Quad frame. Can someone please point me to a location where I can get the params file.

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Mini ground control ( Status viewer) for smart phone/iPhone.

There is no internet at my flying field. This means that ground control station or the APM mission planner does not show its location in the Google map which I think is one of its coolest feature. However there is good cell phone connectivity at th

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APM hangs immediately after connecting to the HK GCS or when connected to the MISSION Planner.

I received my soldered and flashed APM few weeks back. I tried it today ( in non cli mode). I am able to connect to the GCS, however immediately after I connect, the whole setup seems to hangs ( GCS warns that the connection has been lost). I see s

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