It has been awhile since my quadcopter has flown and I am having trouble getting started again. First, I got an error 99, bad compass health... Even though I have never had trouble with my compass. I reloaded firmware (and switched to ArduRover and b
Read more…Hi. I am struggling. Haven't flown for a year and can't seem to arm my copter. Hooked it up to the latest mission planner and it's getting a 'Bad Compass Health' Error. This is even though the compass seems to be fine and it returning the right h
Read more…Hi everyone! As I've been flying my quadcopter, I was curious as to how fast it was going. I used some velcro to attach my Garmin Nuvi to it and reset the trip odometer. I clocked my quadcopter at 58 miles per hour. So... I was wondering:
Has any
Read more…Hi Everyone. I am having some issues with RTL. It's flight path seems rather unpredictable. In the screenshot below I indicate my home position and the position of my RTL start. Rather than pick a nice straight path. My hexcopter dived toward me
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I've had about 20 great flights with my hexcopter. It's done great (except for two in air full motor stops - no idea of the cause, but it recovered). I went outside to fly for a few minutes and I almost lost my hexcopter. My remote i
Read more…Hi. I made my first hexcopter using PVC. It worked great, but it was, of course, quite heavy. Since then, I've come up with a new frame design and motor mount based upon extruded 12 mm carbon fiber tubing. I was able to test print one of my 3D pr
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I'm using a Spektrum DX8 with an AR8000 receiver. It's setup for 6 flight modes and I did a binding to a Failsafe Preset. If I hookup my hexcopter to Mission Planner and shutoff my radio, I can see in Mission Planner that:
1) My thro
Read more…Hi. The wiki states that Automatic ESC calibration works with some ESC's but not others. I experienced something a bit different... and am wondering why.
In my case I was using a Futaba T8FG and successfully did an Automatic ESC calibration on my h
Read more…Hi. Can anyone tell me the approximate dimensions of the following parts that are in the diydrones store?
ArduCopter Hexa 3DR Replacement Base Cap
ArduCopter Hexa 3DR Replacement Frame Body Bottom
ArduCopter Hexa 3DR Replacement Frame Body Top
Ardupilo
Read more…Hi. Everytime I use the Mission Planner I see stuff like this (random ASCII characters). Is this considered normal. My speed, I believe, is correct, and I am able to successfully program and configure my APM2, but I can't do things such as 'clear
Read more…The log file contains GPS lines. What do each of the numbers represent?
GPS, 74826250, 9, 36.0595330, -106.3824310, 16.4600, 2016.3199, 328, 32872
Thank you.
Read more…The following info is in the wiki for Failsafe:
It is likely you may accidentally trigger failsafe by turning off the radio accidentally. This may cause the AC to lift off and hover 10m above its current location.
Does this mean if your hexcopter is
Read more…Hi. I attached my iPhone to my hexcopter (PVC) -- and planned for it to go up about 50 feet, take photos and come back down.
... that didn't go so well ...
about 25 feet into the air, direction controls no longer worked as they should. It acted li
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Having built a hexcopter, I've just recently started flying. It was going really well today, then, about three feet off the ground, the copter flipped over and slammed into the ground. Are there logs I can look at to see what happened or would I h
Read more…Hi. I have an APM2 board and I made a hex-copter with it. I cannot seem to ARM my ESCs correctly.
First, I went through the ESC calibration. This went as per instructions except for the arming tones. Here's how it went for me.
1) ESC Calibration [h
Read more…Hi Everyone. I finally have my homemade hexcopter built and I'm trying to load the firmware on my APM2
I've loaded the device drivers and when I plug the APM2 into my USB port, I get Arduino Mega 2560 (COM4) showing up under device drivers. My A LED
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Is there a getting started guide for the Mission Planner? I don't have a hexcopter yet or a transmitter, but I did get my APM 2.0. Should I be able to hook this up to my computer (got that part working already), run mission planner, set a flight p
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Hi Everyone. I've been searching google and this site for videos, studies, tests, etc.. regarding the optimum setup for staying in the air with ArduCopter after a motor failure. TriCopters and Quad's would certainly crash quickly. What about Hex,
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Hi. I've ordered the new board (pre-order) and motors and ESC's. This is a very brief newbie guide at:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/a-newbies-guide-to-uavs
Is there a more detailed guide that goes over things such as how to configure and hoo
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Hi everyone. I am wanting to build a hexcopter and need some assistance with motor and propeller selection. Saving money is always a goal, but I'd rather buy the right equipment the first time. That being said, I don't have an unlimited budget.
I
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