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I recently got into RC helicopters, then found out you can make it fly itself! Obviously I had to do it. I also decided I might as well make it into an independent study and get credit for it. My current (and first) build is a 450 size helicopter, ArduPilot Mega 2.5+, uBlox GPS, board camera and video transmitter. Just finished putting it together, now just trying to tune it. Almost there...
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"Interesting thing to note: I went out and tried it in full autopilot. Set a nice quick simple course with a desired altitude of 40 meters. Went into auto at about 50 meters and off it went. It dropped to 40 meters before hitting the first…"
"Here is the text file with raw data logging. So what exactly are you looking for in there? I can't claim to know what I'm looking at/for in all that data, lol. Would changing the filter from the default 42 Hz to something lower like 20 Hz make a…"
"It is zip tied to the belly of the helicopter directly under the main shaft. It has two foam/rubber strips between it and the frame to help with vibration. I'll take a flight and post up the logs. Thanks!"
Hello everyone. I'm working on my first drone, a 450 size helicopter, using the ArduPilot Mega 2.5+. I got everything assembled and ran a few flight tests to tune the PID's as per the arducopter wiki. It's now flying nicely in stabilize mode…
