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Just came back from flying field after a bad unexplained crash. it was a new flying wing airframe and started this morning by following the manual on roll/pitch and yaw tuning. First of we calibrated the Baro meter to report 0 meters on the
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I have a development request but would like to see if the development would be useful to others as well.
Basic Idea is just to be able to plan a mission with your own custom 3 parameter waypoints.X,YZ axil
so in other words when planning a miss
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Just a requiste if someone else has encountered this. last week saterday I flew my APM 2 in a plane all was fine, and today I tried updating firmware and it did not work anymore over USB when clicking on the firmware of my choice, (acro) it
Read more…Hi guysRecently A friend Louis and I bought a complete APM 2.5 setup for x8 flying wingsAPM 2.53Dr radio 433 MHzUblox / Mediatek GPSAirspeed sensorAnd the 3DR power module , we completed our setup and started testing the configuration for elevon setu
Read more…Hi I was wondering if there is still someone that is using there old Ublox 5 GPS ? My GPS was not used for a few months and after trying to test it the other day it did not want to lock . I trying in u-center to upgrade the firmware , tried FW 5.0 ,
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Iv been through the search tab countless times and can seem to find anyone that succesfully interfaced the MediaTek GPS with a UNO before . So im asking Has anyone got the DIYD mediatek GPS working with UNO?
Must the Enable pin be pulled high w
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Iv seen a few people that is haveing trouble compiling the ArduPlane and ArduCopter code with Arduino 22 relax , Arduino 100 relax .
always seems to be ether"bootlean not declared" or "AP_int16 not name a type "
Any of one that got this working
Read more…this page at the bottum , the sown why creates the opisite direction of what is shown
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Props_2
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Hi Guys .
I found this video. and I was wondering isnt there any use in adding hall sensors to the motors on your copter to give feedback to the controller of how fast each motor is spinning ? this would make fualt finding on underperforming motors v
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as many of you, after upgrading im sitting with a 1280 APM board still a perfectley good board. shouldnt we try and find a secondary use for it . like camera scypt . gimbal stabilization , pan tilt contoller for FPV flights ?
what other ideas
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Have any of you seen this happen
after loading new code and reseting APM . setting declination my APM board magneto meter seems to be drifting .
my board is on the table pointing north and in the APM planner you can see it does a full 360 dr
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, does the motors test still work in the terminal window or is it just me copter ? I have updated from older firmware to new one and cant get the motor test working not a single movement and also cant get flight , wondering i
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I seem to have a problem with me copter and I cant put my finger on it, I have built a few Quads before and have had no problem with them but my own copter for some reason has given me problems for past few months now, I first loaded the 2.3
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going a bit back in time im trying to get my ArduStation working with current APM code , if you look at the useit section of the ArduStation then they say fr Ublox GPS use 57600 baud for a EM406 use 38400 but now if your APM telemetry is run
Read more…Hi Guys I’ve taken on a new project.
And need to some help
I want to take a standard Quad copter and extend the arms , then place two motors on each arm I.E. have 8 motor on quad configeration connected in parallel as a Quad
My question is does both m
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I have been having problems with my new batch of xbees I ordered from sparkfun the other day 3 pairs of
XBP09-DPSIT-156 , when reading the device in the CTU software this unit comes up as DM device and as the manual states "ignore this" I do
Read more…After a frustrating couple of weeks trying to find out why my copter was spinning and flipping just after take off a complete rebuild was necessary and recheck of everything, After spending 3 hours rebuilding everything and doing a test flight everyt
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I have been thinking about this for a while and was wondering if someone on DIY has tried or has any advice for me regarding this.
How small can we go ?
I have seen alot of post about the " perfect UAV" and although I can see a few no one has
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Hi Guys after sorting out a very frustaring ESC problem I finally got to the flying stage but didnt end to well .
Above video of me just increasing the throttle and all I wantted to achieve was stable liftoff and touch down again but instead it jum
Read more…I am trying to setup my Arucopter Quad , I have loaded all the code needed through thr new APM planner but nothing seems to work correctly, the Planner stop working and sends a error report ever now and then , I calibrate the ESCs Automaticlly and ma
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