We are very pleased to announce the arrival of a major new event in the UK - UVX 2014 - which will take place on the weekend of 26/27 July 2014 at Moulton College in Northampton. This site provides not only excellent exhibition and accommodation fac
Read more…Just loaded and flown 2.0.22 on my standard quad. Worked first time which is a relief - I couldn't get 2.0.20 to work.
Can anyone suggest a reason why, when I flick into 'Loiter' the copter rapidly climbs into the air? I am using sonar and waiting
Read more…I loaded 2.0.17 with the APM Planner and experienced something I've not seen before. I flew for about 5 or 6 minutes, deliberately not touching the rudder to see if the quad would maintain its heading, which it did. I then gave it a tiny amount of
Read more…Just loaded my standard '+' Quad with version 2.0.13 using the APM Planner.
I didn't try 2.0.12 but since 2.0.11 I can tell there is a definite improvement in the yaw movement although I probably need to tweak the PIDs to get it really crisp. I also
Read more…Just downloaded and installed the 2.0.11 release* from the APM Planner. I'm still getting the same rudder effect.
Jason, I (think) I have successfully made a log of the test flight which should show that I applied left rudder many times but the copt
Read more…Just downloaded 2.0.8 from the planner. The winds here in the UK are making a real nuisance of themselves at the moment but despite the weather I was able to do a brief test and it flew okay in Stable mode. However, I see that the yaw 'unwinding'*
Read more…A general question about baud rates...
I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be any fixed standard for the 'best' baud rate for communicating between any particular device and the APM board. Why don't we just stick to 115200? What is the point
Read more…I see that 2.0.6 has just gone up plus a new version of the APM Planner.
BE CAREFUL! Perhaps I made a mistake but this is what happened to me:
1. Loaded new version of APM Planner.
2. Loaded new version of firmware (which has a new look). At one p
Read more…Everyone agrees that the project team are doing a fantastic job and really hate to ask for anything but would it be possible for someone to write a proper definition of all the variables over which we have control? I have searched throughout the for
Read more…I was having a LOT of problems getting my two2.4GHz XBee Pro 2 units to communicate with one another. After a lot of experimentation I finally got them talking and so for the benefit of anyone in a similar position I post here below my working profi
Read more…From the beginning I have always set my Quad to the 'X' configuration but so far using the V2 beta code it has been VERY unstable. I have noticed some people who have been testing the beta code saying it is absolutely fine and others saying that it
Read more…Is there something wrong with the very latest version of the code? Following Jason's post a few hours ago (where he says that a new version has been uploaded) I tried loading the latest 1280 version and although the Missin Planner reports that it ha
Read more…My new quad was running well on the RC2 code and I decided to upgrade it to the ArduPirates NG code so that I could get all the extra functionality.
I loaded the code exactly as described in the instructions but am having a couple of annoying problem
Read more…Hi,
I'm a complete newbie to this forum - can someone answer a question I have regarding altitude control?
If I understand the situation correctly, altitude control on the APM is achieved with GPS. Is this correct? I'm wondering if it would be poss
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