"@leonard. They are not using arducopter. Their kit is quite impressive (and expensive) they had an altura frame with full HD live video link with them when I talked to them at OHM2013. There they told me that they used their own designed. "
"I think the new forums are a great thing, good job!
@Joshua
So is the intention of these forums (for example) to replace the 2000+ replies item 'Arducopter 3.01 released!'?
If so then I suggest closing off the Ning forums or at least make it very…"
Hi,I'm running Megaplanner on kubuntu 13.04.Everything seems to go fine on startup. However I'm not able to use my telemetry because the arrow on the drop down box for choosing the baud rate is not available.There is a white rectangle over the place…
" I don't think MP requires a lot of resources.
I've been running MP an an acer aspire One 522, a 1Gb, 10" netbook that has a 1280x720 screen resolution. The screen resolution was my main reason for buing it. It has about 5 hrs. battery time. The…"
"Are those the same Hammond Electronic boxes the you can get at Conrad? I use those as enclosures for most of the small PCB's that tend to accumulate around the APM. Diydrones would take a look at those boxes and design their PCB's so they fit one of…"
A while ago I had a bad crash (prop failure), and now my copter is not loitering properly anymore.What happens is that it initially does fine for a few tens of seconds and then it starts circling with ever increasing speed.When I calibrate the…
"Pricing for the uBlox module seems a little weird:
If I order the APM2.5+ without GPS (159.99) and a separate uBlox module (49.99) total cost is 209.98,
but is I order the APM2.5+ directly with uBlox GPS its 229.99? "
"According to the article, it looks like MK has one of the less sophisticated control algorithms. In my own expirience however MK has better loiter and auto performance compered to arducopter. See for example this for a rather spectacular…"
"@jacekheli @Jay Byron
I think mono is available for mac. I run MP on linux using mono without much trouble now, my guess is it should run almost the same on mac. "
I had a lot of trouble getting mission planner to run correctly on my linux 64bit debian sid system.After lots of fiddling and tweaking I found installing ONLY mono-runtime and libmono-winforms2.0-cil makes mission planner run fine. So for those of…
"Great Job!
I just flew with standard parameters and for me this is the first release that had reasonable loitering in windy conditions right out of the box. With all provious version I never could manage anything but mediocre a no wind conditions.…"