John Keegan's Discussions (8)

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Calculating time for mission on Y6

I use DroidPlanner with my Y6. Is there a easy was to see how long a set of mission waypoints will take to complete? Clearly, if I know the drone speed and the meters to be flown, I can calculate this. I don't know the Y6 speed. Is there an easy way

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Throttle Failsafe Issue

We just completed building our Y6. We are struggling with the throttle Failsafe settings. Let me explain. We are using the new Pixhawk and a Futaba T8J transmitter.1. With the transmitter ON, the FS Pwm at lowest throttle is 1104.2. We expected a low

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Not connecting: 3DR telemetry radios

We just completed our Y6. Unfortunately, the APM Planner 2.0 will not recognize the telemetry, the tilt of the Y6, the our current map location. So, there is no active link via the radio to make all these functions happen. (We did follow the setup in

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Mission Planner

Attention Greg KosinI thought your message about making the camera aim where we want it that you sent yesterday would solve the problem. Your steps were copied by us off line - no quad connected using Mission a Planner as well as APM 2.0; we could no

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How do I keep the camera targeted?

If I wanted to create waypoints around a picturesque light house how do I set up the waypoints so the camera is always pointing at the light house? I am a newby so I don't know what mission planning command applies to this example. Experts out there,

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Mac users opinions

I will build a Y6 and do Mission Planning via a Mac laptop. I am wondering if there are any differences between the Mac version and the Windows version? Are Mac users satisfied with the functionality of the Mac version? The reason I ask is I could us

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Gimbal for Y6

I would like to hear if there is room under the Y6 for the common brushless gimbal like the Tarot or DJI's gimbal. It is difficult to judge from the photos on 3DRobotics site photos.Secondly, how is the gimbal powered? It's own battery?

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