I mean, I'd like to buy just the guts, and put them into my own airframe. Seems like this would be a good way to compete with DJI - you could get a lot more 3DR platforms out there that way, on airframes of all shapes and sizes, and let your platform
Read more…I'm working on my FAA 333 exemption request, and I'm thinking about the part where it typically says something like:
Read more…We are petitioning for exemption to enable AUAV to operate a series of UAS platforms that have been previously approved by exemption,
CyPhy is developing a hexacopter with tilted rotors, tilted but in a fixed position:
http://www.cyphyworks.com/robots/lvl1/
This enables the LVL1 to move without tilting, so it's always level.
My question is, does a Pixhawk care about the orientation of
Read more…I'm still trying to find an answer to this after a couple of weeks of being down, 3DR support has been pretty slow on the uptake.
Basically, my Iris+ isn't getting commands from my radio controller, i.e. the box with the joysticks and the FrSky DJT. M
Read more…I have the usual equipment, FS-TH9X transmitter and D4R-II receiver. I upgraded to Copter 3.3-rc11, and then the transmitter stopped working correctly. That could just be coincidental to the problem at hand.
Everything else works fine, the 3dr usb rad
Read more…It takes about 4 minutes to download 1 minute's worth of flight logs over MAVlink. Actually it should take 2 minutes per minute, but for some reason it takes twice as long. So maybe if I could get data over the USB port, it would be 1 minute per minu
Read more…I was getting a little jello in GoPro footage from my Tarot T-2D gimbal, at certain angles under certain conditions. I had seen an image somewhere of a gimbal and some earplugs, though I didn't read the article. But I figured they were stuffing them
Read more…My Pixhawk died (from heat exhaustion I think) so I got a new one from GoodLuckBuy, and it was so cheap I got a new GPS unit, an M8N to replace my LEA6H.
I did a preliminary test and was getting 8 to 11 satellites in the middle of my living room, so I
Read more…GoodLuckBuy has a PX4-FLOW unit without sonar for around $52, which seems like a good buy. But what would that get me? I mean, if I hook it up to my Pixhawk, how will it improve my life?
Read more…I've been developing my system for aerial surveying, no big deal, just an Iris+ with a Canon S100, and wondering if it ever makes sense to not use GCPs even if you have RTK.
The sticking point to me seems to be in the uncertainty of camera attitude. E
Read more…I've had trouble with my Iris+ which I believe might be related to overheating. When I first got it, I only flew it near sunset, when the ambient temperature was in the low 90s, but then when I started flying earlier in the day, with temperatures aro
Read more…I was looking at my flight log for my last flight, where I crashed into a tree, and I noticed that one of the IMUs flatlined right at the point where the Iris+ started to go crazy.
It happened like this. I was doing an automated lawnmower pattern to s
