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Pasadena, CA


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I'm working on a project involving the Pixhawk and the Dji phantom. We substituted the NAZA pilot with the Pixhawk to have more flexibility and, for instance, add new sensors or commands.


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Marco Arena replied to David Locascio's discussion Using a Drone to Measure Light Over an Area
"Hi James,
You said you hooked up an arduino to the pixhawk. I'm trying to do the same, but when I plug the +5V output from the pixhwak telem port to the Vin of the Arduino and the GND to the GND of the arduino, Pixhawk doesn't even switch on, like…"
Nov 24, 2014
Marco Arena replied to Marco Arena's discussion Interfacing Arduino with Pixhawk
"Hey James, you said to use TELEM2 as serial port to let the pixhawk communicate with the arduino, but I cannot even enable this port. I mean, I set from the mission planner: BRD_SER2_RTSCTS param to 1 (i.e. enable) but I still don't get anything…"
Nov 6, 2014
Marco Arena left a comment for James Overington
"Thanks James, this week I have a lot work with another project. When I will be back on the quadcopter project I'll contact you.
Thank you again for your availability."
Oct 18, 2014
Marco Arena replied to Marco Arena's discussion Interfacing Arduino with Pixhawk
"Thank you so much James, I'm starting immediately to work on it!"
Oct 14, 2014
Marco Arena replied to Marco Arena's discussion Interfacing Arduino with Pixhawk
"Thanks for your answer, I already knew about the splitter. But, the fact is, I'm trying to use this kind of sensors ( http://www.parallax.com/product/28015 ) because I already have them. I didn't find a way to read them through the pixhawk, so my…"
Oct 13, 2014
Marco Arena posted a discussion
Hi everybody,I'm working on a project with a Pixhawk on a DJI Phantom. We substituted the proprietary NAZA controller with the Pixhawk because we want to edit the firmware, adding new sensors and changing the way to control it. We need to interface…
Oct 7, 2014
Marco Arena replied to Yaniv Blecherman's discussion How to Arduino to PIXHAWK
"Hi, i'm trying to connect Arduino to Pixhawk too. At the moment I just found the hardware implementation (http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=188222.5;wap2), but about the software I'm still trying to understand what to write and where.
Did you…"
Oct 7, 2014