Hi guys,
When i try to flash the firmware to the board, i get the following errors. The first error appears as soon as i click on the Firmware button between simulation and terminal.
The error i get is when i try to select the OCTO firmware icon
Any ide
Read more…Hey Guys, I have a AlexMos or SimpleBGC gimbal controller. I have some problems and am tearing my hair out. The gimbal is just twitching and i have no stabilization whatsoever. I have flashed with 2.0b3 and use the 2.0b3 GUI
I can see all live data an
Read more…Hey guys, im building a fairly expensive octocopter, a Droidworx AD8 for aerial photography and am trying to decide on a radio.
I have previously owned a turnigy 9x with FrSky upgrade. I have been doing a bit of reading on the DX8 and things dont look
Hey guys! I have some serious questions relating to commercial grade aerial photography! I live in New Zealand, and while there is not a large amount of companies doing aerial photography with drones it would be the perfect time to get into it!
My que
Read more…Ok, so after a few posts and reading around, the impression im getting is basically, it is unsafe to power the camera gimbal servos from the APM at all.... for fear of brownouts?
So whats the best options here? External power source for the gimbal ser
Read more…Can someone please for the life of me tell me how to get camera stab working. I have servos connected to A10 and A11, have ticked stabilize roll and stabilize pitch in camera stabilization settings, but when i arm and tilt the quad, these servos do n
Read more…Hi, ive just hooked up two micro servos to A10 and A11 for camera stabilization. My question is how do i get these 2 servos to work with the gyros? So it stabilizes with the gyros?
ive tried setting the gimbal settings, ticking pan and tilt but still
Hi, i just read a topic about this which was closed.
I have the same issues, 1 meter range with the 433MHz telemetry and it only connects intermittently. I am using the 3DR radio absolutely stock.
Ground station is a Acer Aspire One with an Intel Atom
Read more…Hey guys, i have recently solved all the GPS issues by replacing the MediaTek GPS unit to the uBlox. I have had a 100% success rate so far with GPS reliability.
However, when using the RTL feature, i noticed my quad just fell out of the sky. It attemp
Read more…Hi, i have been reading alot and have noticed that the APM board is LIMITED to only CH5. This means that i can only use my 3way Mode switch to assign 3 flight modes at a time. I am not a developer nor can i write any code to implement other channels
Read more…Hi, I just purchased this gimbal http://www.copterframes.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=129 with the motors on the right.
My question is, can i use the APM 2.5+ A10/A11 to stabilize this gimbal? If not how could i make this work.
Thanks
Read more…Hey guys, i have built my first quadcopter using the APM 2.5 board. Flies really well and i am now working on a hexacopter for aerial photography and GPS aerial mapping.
I have a few questions.
I need to select the best motors for the best flight t
Hey guys, i have an old but still reasonable digital camera kicking around and pulled it apart, found that if i put a short over the push button contact the camera will focus and take a shot.
Now i need to trigger the NO circuit with a SHORT via a rec
Read more…So yea, as the title says, anything GPS related is not working
RTL is just flying away and so it ALT HOLD, i noticed it was getting a GPS lock very fast after power up, like 2 flashes and there was a GPS lock.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Read more…Hey, quick question regarding turnigy 9x and multiple flight modes. I have configured the 3way switch for 3 different flight modes. However i would like to configure 2 more channels for 2 more flight modes. I have got another tweo channels working wh
Read more…Hey guys, when flying with my 3DR Radio connected i loose control of my quad completely. Im not sure if it is jamming the RX/TX but i wouldnt have thought so since the transmitter is on 2.4 GIGA Hz and the radio is on a completely different spektrum
Read more…hey guys, So i just had a turnigy 9x failure resulting in a crash. I have a stock 9x which i have amtel programmer in transit at the moment to flash the 9x with the OpenER fw.
My question is, im looking at getting one of these
Read more…Is it possible to initiate a complete flight via Flight Planner without a transmitter? Setup a flight plan, and "do action"?
Or do i need to use the transmitter to ARM the APM. At the moment i cannot arm the board via flight planner even with joystick
Read more…Hey guys! Flying with the APM a bit on my quad before i put it on my aerial photography hex just to get familiar with it. I have a few questions.
1. Does the APM board include a telemetry unit when purchased? (i think its the unit i received that goes
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