Gender
Male
About
Location
Cambridge, Ontario
About Me:
Studied Computer Engineering Technology at Conestoga College.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Enoy RC Planes and Helicopters, this brings in new excitement..
Hometown:
Wellesley
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Had my first flight about a week ago and everththing was perfect but today when I fired up AMP my plane was rolling and pitching with it just sitting still. Looked at raw data and gx, gy were going all over the place. The last flight was perfect and…
"I'll be doing that this weekend. I was thinking of mounting my pitot tubes on wing away from thrust of the prop. Make a channel in the foam and have the tubes come out around the leading edge of the wing. Will see how it goes."
"Well it acted up again. Getting sick up unbricking the Xbee but have it down now to a science :P
Turns out to be the cable that connects the Xbee to AdruPilot that came with the Telemetry kit. I didn't have any connectors to make something up but I…"
Turns out to be the cable that connects the Xbee to AdruPilot that came with the Telemetry kit. I didn't have any connectors to make something up but I…"
"Already done that, all clean and nice and shiny."
"I've confirmed the cable and Xbee orientation as per the Telemetry Kit Manual but the Xbee's work via Hyper Terminal to Hyper Terminal....The Xbee configuration is straight forward but it doesn't like it when it is connected to the IMU Telem port."
"AMP is 1.0.54
Yes I confirmed port in Device Manager and Baud at 57k. But shouldn't the ON status light stay solid not flash with RSSI, Tx or Rx lights?"
Yes I confirmed port in Device Manager and Baud at 57k. But shouldn't the ON status light stay solid not flash with RSSI, Tx or Rx lights?"
"The problem is I can't establish a link via APM(2.22) with Xbee. When Xbee is connect to IMU Telem Port all the Status LED's on Xbee Adapter Board flash together and that's all that happens.
Tried re-loading firmware but same problem."
Tried re-loading firmware but same problem."
"Ah just checked the 5V+ and GND pins on IMU and I have 2.6VDC I think this could be the cause but why? Shouldn't the USB support this board? Shouldn't draw that much...."
Things were going good until now so here's my first post. Received my new DIY Telemetry Kit and assembled as per the manual. Should be PnP by the sounds of it but more Plug and Pray. All lights on the Xbee Board flash (some dim). (ON LED, ASC/RSSI…
