Greg Fletcher's Discussions (14)

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Happy's IMU test and APmega

I don't ask for help much. Figuring it out for myself is how I learned, but I am asking now. I just soldered a new APmega  and flashed it everything's working great. I tried to get it to work with the IMUtest v1.1.18 and I get no data comming in. I s

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Easy KML file generator ?

Does any one know where to get one. I used to use a website to do it and the download my file. I have "KML generator v 2.05" and it doesn't work on win 7. I have a thing called Quo v2. Its buggy and doesn't work sometimes and puts flags and lat/lon d

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Safety--Unexpected full throttle

To all,
Important safety issue with Aurdupilot 2.7. I speak from experience. No damage done,
 but it was a completely unexpected jump to full throttle while I was attempting to program my
Castle Phoenix 25 in a skyfun sitting on my workbench. To enter

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Arduino Char Strings and RAM

This is a general programing issue, not flying. I was adding some functions to a experimental version of 2.7. Things didn't work so I started adding Serial.print statements at certain points for de-bugging purposes. Ther was a lot of stuff printing o

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Labview driver problems

I am having trouble with some labview based aps. I have downloaded and installed the latest LV runtime drivers linked to in the Ardupilot manual. The latest GCS works fine. The older GS does,t work any more as well as the ardu-imu demo. I get an erro

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GCS problems

I am having trouble getting any GCS software to run on my new mini notebook. I bought it basically to use for a GCS. I have got the LV Run time engine installed and running.  I had to buy windows 7 home premium in order for labview to work. You get w

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Need advanced help with Ublox

Hello,  First off let me say that my Ublox is working excellent. I need some advice from an adanced Ublox setter upper. I am trying to either set up the Ublox to periodically send the NAV-TIMEUTC field  (0X01,0X21)or poll it from the Aurdupilot. I wa

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Ublox antenna re-attachment

Oh the horror ! I dropped my Ublox onto a hardwood floor and snapped the antenna right off.
After 45 minuits of carefuly picking at the epoxy potted base I have expossed a central pin in the middle and one on either side if it. Ohm meter says the two

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Ublox-5 baud rate ?

Is there a reason the DIY Ublox is set to 38400. I down loaded U-center and it looks to me like you can set it to what ever standard rate you want. I would like to set mine to 57600 to be compatible with my new Open Log. Of course I would also modify

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corrupt Xbee

First of let me say I know not to power up the system with the Tx to the Xbee connected. I have bricked mine several times during testing. I installed a dip switch just for this. I am putting my Ardustation in a nice DIY box and was going to instal a

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