I have calibrated my 4 ESCs from my 3DR kit on several occassions, mostly via the manual method, but they seem to intermitently indicate that they need recalibration.
I turn on the copter and sometimes, all 4 ESCs initialize nominally, but other times
Read more…I mounted my GoPro Hero2 to the top of my 3DR frame using the standard mount and the resulting video was unusable- complete jello. So then I used tripod adapter with the camera and a 1/4-20 bolt to the top and still had unusable jello in the video.
Is
Read more…I'm a newbie and have been flying my 3DR quad for a few weeks now. I saw the impressive post about Arducopter 2.0.55 and decided to try it out tonight, so I fired up the APM Planner selected 2.0.55 and installed it. But afterwards all of the settings
Read more…Does anyone have any recommendation for 30A ESCs that I can get somewhat quickly and affordably in the US?
Thanks,
Pat
Read more…I have a quadcopter 3DR and am considering mounting the battery above the frame arms instead of below the arms, and I'm wondering how sensitive the stability of the quad is to this shift of CG?
I realize that this swap of CG from below the arms to abo
Read more…Why is there a female header included in the kit? As far as I can tell, it isn't used for anything, but meanwhile the telemetry kit instructions immediately call out for soldering a 4 pin breakaway header to the APM oilpan:
Read more…I finished building the 3DR quadcopter about a week ago and encountered several issues in the assembly documentation, so I figured I would post my issues and recommendations here with the hope that they could be incorporated into the official documen
Read more…Does anyone have an idea when XBee modules might be available again?
They have been out of stock in the DIY Drones store for a while and Sparkfun says that flooding in Thailand is resulting in long lead times.
Thanks,
Pat Brown
Read more…I finished building my first quadcopter this week (3DR quad kit) and am very happy with the results. A colleague of mine who flies RC helicopters and multicopters part time for movie studios checked it out and said that it felt underpowered. Even bas
Read more…Now that the ArduPilot is available, I have a few questions about using the FMA co-pilot.1. Is it really necessary to have the proportional aux channel on a TX? Alternatively, the trim can be set on the FMA computer. I imagine that having it on the T
Read more…This message is initially addressed towards Chris, since he has commented about this before, but I welcome any other feedback.Chris, you said that the ArduPilot requires 4 channels, which is why you are using an EasyGlider now. I think the reason is
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