The end of my most successful flight yet was in the form of a crumpled, standard Arducopter alumiminium frame. It was awesome, I've never gotten such a thrill out of 'disaster' in my life, because it marked the highest point of a long newbie journey
Read more…Has anybody else had problems with getting their purchases from coptersky.com? I've been waiting on a $400.00 purchase for at least two months, now. When I first realised it was a bit slow, I contacted Sergey and he said he was sorry and he'd send
Read more…One for the physicists -
It would seem obvious that the lower rotor in a Y6 (or any vertical rotor set-up) is working in a whole different way to any rotor in a hexa set-up. The fact that it's pushing down "pre-pushed" air suggests, intuitively, tha
Read more…Anyone know how to get at blogs from the otherwise very cool and tidy, iPhone~friendly diydrones.com web page? It's a terrible tease in the bus. Etcetera.
Read more…...rather than real-world in...to RC.
Quadcopters. Hexacopters, indeed, as the predominant trend leans thar. Though I feel the Y6 will come to be the most common. So elegant and powerful, wide video arms...
So yes, multi-rotors. I was pondering
Read more…For anyone bored enough to answer:Possibly a very simple issue. And I'm yet to try a different PDB, though I have one.Finally got my Futaba talking to my basic jdrones quad, 850kv motors but with 30A jdrones ESCs. Tested all motor/ESC combos with se
Read more…Is there any reason why the title would present a problem? I had a faulty 20A ESC and blew another one. I had spare 30A ESCs for a planned upgrade and read around - the scant info found suggested that higher current capacity shouldn't matter. I'm
Read more…Hello. Thanks for dropping by.
Windows 7.
Connection to APM acknowledged on computer and recognised as FT232R USB UART in devices.
Configurator downloaded with upgrade as per http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/Quad_ConfiguratorTool
I have
Read more…Greetings. If you can't tolerate total newbie questions, please look away now.Simple issue and nothing in the wiki makes this clear.Connecting ESCs to the PDB:I have Rev D PDB. Now, different diagrams in the wiki tell a different story - sometimes di
Read more…If people keep breaking laws with drones, it's not gonna help the general community... Anyone know who's involved with this?http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/9382555/spy-in-sky-over-island-camp/http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaki
Read more…Hello, people. I'm a big fat noob and in my post box at home is a brand new Arducopter kit, pre-soldered and software tested, v1.1. I also have an AXN Floater-Jet coming so I can learn basic RC flying - I say this to demonstrate the totality of my
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