Hi guys,
We are currently making 4+1 quad plane using Pixhawk orange cube. In this recently we faced some issues while taking off the motor frame totally oscillating. We done manual and automatic Esc calibration and C.G position was proper. But stil
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So I'm building my first drone and I'm kinda drown in all the technical specifities. I've found this build which seems easy enough :
We have done a VB app to show the sensor could be used for scannig on a drone. the range is limited to about 6mtrs according to the docs but we assume that there is heaps of tollerance.
Two pic's show the vb app graph (realish time) of our 42" plasma
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We are developing a fix-wing UAV aircraft as a school project of Estonian Aviation Academy.
It is a classical twin-boom pusher design with plan MTOW of 25kg.
After we have finished constructing version 1 airframe, the project is planned to contin
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I bought an Iris+ with the gimbal, Black Pearl FPV and a GoPro in 2015 and used it to take a video of my farm.
--After the initial activity in 2015 (my first experience with a drone), I was busy with other things, so the drone sat on a shelf (in
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I just finished building a 250 X quad a few days ago, did some short flight on Stabilize, and today I decided to try the Loiter / RTL mode and crashed it. I am pretty new to this so some help analyzing what I did wrong and/or what failed would
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I made a diy drone and specificatino is as below.
FCC : pixracer r15
ESC : Hobbywing Xrotor micro 60A 4in1
Motor : T-Motor 1300KV
When I tried to take off the drone, it can fly somehow.
But after flight Motor is too hot.
Is there any probl
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Guys, I need help completing my drone.
I have a naza, ran into problems with my taranis qx7 with and naza.
Will pay to setup.
Thx.
Read more…I'm looking to get back into ardupilot and I'm a little overwhelmed at the flight controller options. My last board was the original ArduPilot Mega from 10 years ago. I'm wondering if there is a reasonably priced, popular/standard flight controller o
Read more…I was wondering if anyone had any motor/prop combo suggestions for a multi-disciplinary school project involving an airframe of about 18 kg. We're looking at every option we can find, but it's a little hard to look motors up by thrust capabilities,
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Some info about me before I go on, I am a watchmaker for about 5 years now and I've been looking to having a career change. What got me fascinated about mechanical timepiece is that I can literally see how it works and how well it made sens
Read more…I belong to a robotics club which has recently become facinated with these drones. We can get funding to purchase one from the local school district, but we need to get everything from one website/supplier to make the billing easy. if we bought this
Read more…F4 V3s Plus does not have IBUS port. Tried ti use, as advised a free UART. Inmy case RX 6 and set:
serialrx_halfduplex=OFF
serialrx_inverted =OFF
I did set the receiver to IBUS as well as on my FS-i6 RC.
That did not solve the problem.
I tried another app
Read more…The next “big thing” is always in the spotlight in today’s society. Many companies now prioritize how their devices will stand out among the standard items in the market, so there is an abundance of innovative UAVs for consumers.
We will explore some
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First of all, let me say that I think this is a fantastic forum / platform. I've been following it for a while without the use of an account and decided it was about time to sign up. The reason I signed up is because I am in desperate n
Over the last three years I have been monitoring the web for evidence of large, heavy lift, commercially capable systems, for loads in excess of 10Kg
As many of you may know, there are a lack of larger frames on the market, that can handle more than 1
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Read more…Step 1: Choosing your quadcopter frame sizes:
There are many different size frame, the most popular is 180mm-250mm(180mm frame means the diagonal axis distance is 180mm), they are also used for FPV racing quadcopter; more bigger one is from 280 mm to
Read more…I recently suggested in this thread:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/need-uav-built-for-under-10k
that Ardupilot would be a low cost way to make a commercial/military UAV.
I haven't used ardupilot in autonomous mode yet, but I've been very impressed w
I am a high school student interested in drones and autopilots. I hope to be able to write some code and learn about the design of drones and autopilots. I would like to know how important math, and more specifically calculus, is in this field? Could
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