That's the video of today, I apologise for the horrible quality, youtube was throwing up errors when I went to upload the higher quality version, at least this will giv
Still trying to get a handle on my quad and some settings, but I've uncounted a strange problem. My motors arm, start up and spin up fine, but as I get towards take of throttle level one motor consistently cuts out. It doesn't appear to be a
Firstly I've made a lot of posts over the last few days on varying issues, so I'm sorry if I'm 'spamming' up the forum in any way, just having a few issues getting off the ground and looking to draw on this excellent community for advice.
I posted earlier saying that I was having issues with my APM1 and it seemed the output pin 4 was faulty. It seems it may have been a software problem. Tried reloading the firmware etc.
What seems to be happening now is this - When I first ini
Really dumb question, after reading through the ESC instructions I'm ready to test all the motors simultaneously. They say to set the slider switch to fly mode, but for the life of me I can't identify which switch this is. It suggests CLI swi
After a frustrating half day of calibrating ESC's and hooking / rehooking up everything I've discovered that my output 4 pin of the APM is not working.
I tested through hooking up multiple ESC's and motors logically troubleshooting each compo
Originally I went through the setup in the mission planner and configured the radio, all going well and through this I confirmed that the throttle control is on channel 3.
I'll try and keep it short. QR newbie trying to build a new copter using some parts left over from a different QR project (working). I've ordered an APM1, and I've finally got it here all soldered up ready to go. When I was stripping the ESC'
I'm about to make my venture into the QR world, adapting an older QR I have here into a new model with a better frame and using the APM as the brain for my further research.
Since I'm on a relatively tight budget I just want to ensure compati
Bit of background, I'm a student currently at the end of their 3rd year in a mechatronics degree, with little RC experiance, who has chosen to do UAV indoor / confined space navigation / object detection as their thesis topic. I'm essentially