Just wondering if it would be safe to do a compass calibration on one of many identical drones in one location and then copy those values to the other drones without needing to calibrate all the drones? Should the values be identical if the drones a
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Presenting the EZ-Gimbal With A Twist. You can now rotate your camera into a portrait orientation to enable portrait photography and panoramas. Due to the unique three axis balance adjustment system of the EZ-Gimbal, the rotation by 90 degrees requi
Read more…Possibly the lightest NEX sized camera gimbal you will find on the market. Completely assembled with two brushless motors and control board/IMU, the entire gimbal weighs only 345g.
It's bad enough that you want to lug a weighty camera under your mult
Not sure what deals, if any, 3DR has with the Chinese wholesale market, but it is interesting that one wholesaler has a "genuine" 3DR APM V2.5.2 board with a jumper pad to enable / disable the on-board mag chip to allow for an external I2C mag/GPS bo
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I've created a working antenna tracker for my hexacopter with a MultiWii controller using a spare Arduino Nano V3 and an XBee Pro 900 pair. MW protocol is decoded and GPS LAT/LON/Speed and ALT and extracted. The issue I have is that the position
Read more…Can anyone tell me if I should change my hexacopter motor angles to try and increase yaw authority? I'm sure I have read somewhere that 3deg one way for the CCW motors and 3deg the other way with CW motors can help.If anyone has had success with this
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I've been trying all sorts of props on my Y6 running with DT750 motors in an attempt to get stable yaw and minimal vibrations. I currently use 3S batteries. The GWS EP1045 slow flyer props were the most vibration free out of all the prop's I tri
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Just updated to 2.7 on my Y6. However, I still seem to have this random issue where the mag (DIYDrones HMC5883L) fails to init when I hook the battery up. In mission planner I get a slow rotation of heading which does not respond to the heading o
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I've got a few spare 5V 328 Arduino Nano's floating about and a couple of LCD panels. I was wondering how hard it would be to take my XBee radio, hook it up to it and decode the Mavlink 1.0 binary protocol? Is there a library I can add to the Ar
Read more…I've been trying to get my head around the best method of controlling the throttle channel on my KK tricopter to get it to stick to a set altitude (anywhere between 0.5 to 8m) using just my XL sonar I pulled from my APM based quad and an Arduino Uno
Read more…I have been noticing a strange behaviour in the yaw. While hovering and no yaw stick input the quad stays within a 5 deg heading. As soon as I move the stick the smallest amount the the left the quad starts to rotate to the right (clockwise looking
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I've just updated APM to 1.0.96 and then loaded AC 2.0.50 beta through the planner onto my quad. So far so good. When I went into the config dialog (which now requires me to go back into flight mode and connect) I noticed that the batter
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is the new signal level in Planner documented anywhere? What is it supposed to show? Is it for the xBee signal strength or the radio Rx signal strength?
Thanks,
John
Read more…Yesterday I updated Mission Planner and loaded up build 39 onto the APM. This is what I observed after a full erase/setup (I have sonar and mag) -Did an initial test on the sonar to see what the new values would be by having the motors running on low
Read more…Just went to the terminal tab in 1.0.44, typed in setup, hit enter, typed in modes, hit enter and it drops back out to the command prompt after telling you the current modes. Not getting this issue with the Arduino IDE serial console. Is there an opt
Read more…Connected up the new XL-MaxSonar EZ0 (MB1200) which turned up in the mail today and I'm testing with the motors running and the motors off while holding it about 150cm off the carpet.First log attached is with the motors running. The sonar data start
Read more…Hi, is it normal for the hud's attitude indicators to be really sluggish compared to how I am moving the quad around? If I hold the quad and move it's pitch reasonably quickly the hud seem to take ages to show the pitch that it ended up at.Telemetry
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I just recorded a 9 min hover in roughly the same spot out to a tlog file and then exported that to a KMZ file. When I play it back it looks like the altitude recorded jumps to zero on one tracking point per second and the rest appear at the cor
Read more…Hi,I was trying to get my head around the code in arducopter 2.0.36 to see if I could set up an IF condition to detect if the attitude read from the IMU shows that the quad is inverted and then turn on the relay, which in turn ejects a parachute from
Read more…Does anyone know if there is a way to read the RSSI RC Rx signal strength and feed this down to the Mission Planner via an XBee? Would be nice to be able to see if the RC link is starting to fail on the heads up display in Mission Planner.
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