Hey again all, hope youre all enjoying some good flying.We've just arrived back from a commercial shoot in Johannesburg for a live tv production, filming night aerials for the live intro sequence. Using our SteadiDrone EI8HT Ultra, running APM2.5, li
Read more…as the heading sais, i would like to know if the initial motor start up speed can be reduced once armed ?
ivetried softstart with th esc but still starts motors very fast, i would like them to be as slow as possible when giving throttle. any ideas?
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Read more…hey again all! I thought it would be cool to have a dedicated thread for guys who build bigger hex and octocopters with apm where we can share tips and advice regarding tech specs, builds, code, firmware and whatever else comes up.
Firstly, how many o
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We've just launched our new SteadiDrone website, we are focusing on providing more affordable complete full RTF drone kits for aerial stills, video and commercial filming. Some of you might have seen our recent videos of us flipping/looping o
Read more…Hey guys, Ive been hard at work the last few months getting a new AFFORDABLE carbon fibre drone system ready, our main goal and primary focus is complete ready to fly platforms that can compete (and even outperforme) leading systems at a fraction of
Read more…Hey all! I've created a google group for us local South African guys, please join and we can get chatting and sharing, and possibly have regular meetings and fly-ins.
If we get enough interest I would be willing to build a full website with a great fo
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I've been messing around with loiter abit after flying our DWAD8 octo for a while now (over 350 flights, not a single issue)
Loiter with the baro seems ok, jumpy and keep circle about 3-4m, with sonar it just sits there, about 1-2m w
Read more…Hello again all, any help here would be much apreciated.
I am flying a droidworx octo HL and flown over 300 perfect flights with Arducopter since .42, now running .49
I've got GPS and SONAR, alt hold with sonar works great, but GPS is acting funky, o
Read more…Hey again all. As some of you may have seen ive been getting some great results with our heavylift okto system running arducopter and we are in the process of developing full rtf kits for aerial photo and video running arducopter as well as showing t
Read more…Is there, or are there plans to do multiple stab modes with different pid settings at once so one could via a s5ick movement chose a certain mode just before arming motors, like mk does??
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Just a quick video I shot yesterday with our Arducopter powered Octo, it's been flying like a dream and we've probably done over 100 great test fights with NO hassles at all. I've just did some tweaking on the camera mount and did a
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I've designed a custom Carbon Fiber foldable Quad air frame specifically for the GoPro camera, this frame will have foldable legs and will be super strong and lightweight. What do you guys think, any comments suggestions ? Would any
Read more…Hey everyone, my first post here, been browsing around the last week or so while busy with my first ARDU build, and thanks to all the great posts and info here.
A little background, we've got a production company here in South Africa and I've been ve
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