Difficulties tuning up the APM and airframe

I did the maiden flight this evening with the APM. I’m using ArduPilotMega 1.02 version dated 10 Jan’11. I have MTK GPS module configured with GPS_PROTOCOL_MTK (not MTK16). I followed all the protocol and everything seems to work OK. The start up seq

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Futaba 14 ch Rx reading

I had problems reading inputs with APM, see here.  I reloaded the PPM multiplexer firmware as indicated here but after that I got same problems.

I remembered then that some time ago I had to send a PowerBox back to factory due  problems reading Futaba

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ArduCopter firmware download

The manual for Arducopter Traditional Heli says:

• You need to download all files from the below directory, put them into a folder i.e. named "ArduHeli" within the given path of the Arduino software.
• http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/source/browse/#svn

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More strange things with radio inputs and multiplexer

I got my APM three weeks ago. I assembled it and started with setup and test step by step as the instructions manual. Every thing looks fine except the radio inputs.

First I run the demos. The dancing demo works fine, all eight outputs works as the vi

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ArduPilot Mega IMU Shield

Hi, I just received my first APM compnents and the IMU Shield comes with four 3.9 K resistors together with the headers. I can't find in the instructions what are these resistor for. Can any body tell me about?

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