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Bradford, West Yorkshire
About Me:
http://johnleach.co.uk
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Building my own quadcopter, just for the fun! http://johnleach.co.uk/words/category/tech/quadcopter
Hometown:
Bradford, United Kingdom
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I wrote a blog post explaining throttle failsafe calibration (because I couldn't find an explanation I found clear enough and it took me a while to understand it!)It's for a Spektrum DX8 and AR8000 but I the basic theory should be the same for most…
Newer versions of Mission Planner (1.2.50+ iirc) need some additional mono packages to work on Ubuntu. They're only available in Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and above though. You can install them like this: sudo apt-get install -y mono-runtime…
In case anyone else is having problems, I had trouble with getting Mission Planner to work on Linux after about version 1.2.36. I was getting various "System.TypeLoadException" errors.Anyway, as I understand, MP has been upgraded to use a newer…
"Tested again today with much more space. First time, it was successful. loitered above home for the 5 seconds I have it set to, then lowered to 2m and held position.
The second time I tested, it just headed in the opposite direction, to a point…"
The second time I tested, it just headed in the opposite direction, to a point…"
I've built a APM 2.5+ based quadcopter running AC 2.9.1 firmware. I got a gps lock before I took flight, flew around a bit quite successfully (landing several times).I then switched it into RTL mode to test it out - it increased altitude, rotated…
Hi everyone,I'm a ardupilot newbie and I'm trying to get hardware in-loop simulation working with flightgear (on Ubuntu Linux) for my quadcopter (the aim is to learn a little bit how to fly before I finish building my own real craft).missionplanner…
