I have a hexacopter with fairly strong motors. I'm using I2C ESCs from Mikrocopter. I've been flying it on older versions (like 2.5) and custom versions of code (after converting motor control to I2C). I decided to try 2.8.1. I inherited the moto
Read more…I have an interesting problem that I can't seem to figure out. I have a APM1 on a hexa with a Win7 FitPC2i computer mounted on the hexa as well. The PC is connected to Serial 1 and 3 on the APM1 via FTDI 3.3V USB to TTL converter cables. I am usin
Read more…Just finished putting together my second hexacopter. I built it just like the first one. Loaded up 2.4 and went through all the setup stuff with leveling and such. When I first took off, it acted like it was in acro mode and very unstable. After
Read more…Anyone able to get VisualMicro and the arduino 0.22 relaxpatch working with each other? I can compile ACM 2.2b2 in arduino, but I can't get it to work in VisualMicro. I'm betting it is a compiler option for arduino that is not getting set, but I ca
Read more…I recently downloaded the latest ACM 2.2b2 and the relax version of arduino 1.0. When I try to compile I am getting various errors. Here is what I get...
In file included from C:\Goza\Projects\Hexacopter\ArduCopter_2_2b2\libraries\FastSerial/Better
Read more…I'm running ACM 2.0.47 on a Hexa XL. I'm new to ACM and I've gone through the online manuals, but I seem to be having trouble setting altitude hold and position modes. I've enabled the sonar. Here is the problem...
I switch to ALT_HOLD using a swi
Read more…I have an interesting problem. I recently put my MK Hexa XL together with the MK power distribution board and BL-CTRL v2.0 ESCs. I'm running an Arducopter Mega system with oilpan and I modified the code to run the controllers on I2C. All that seem
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