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White River, Mpumalanga
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
We develop custom UAV's in South Africa for everything from general FPV to security and aerial mapping. Our longest flying UAV can stay airborne for around 3.5 hours with a range of 300km. It can carry a payload up to 6kg
Hometown:
White River, Mpumalanga
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"I fixed it by removing ~/apmplanner2 directory."
"I tried starting apmplanner2 as root and the memory usage is only 50MB."
I recently installed and got to work APM Planner 2.0.14 on OpenSuSE 13.1.When I start apmplanner2 me PC bogs down for about 2 minutes after the initial APM Planner splash screen is shown. It indicates 'Starting User Interface'The terminal window at…
"Yes. That's all the log that was recorded.
The copter basically hovered for about a minute, then it seemed like there was no control or stabilisation and it tilted forward and right. Motors were still spinning and it tipped over when it hit the…"
The copter basically hovered for about a minute, then it seemed like there was no control or stabilisation and it tilted forward and right. Motors were still spinning and it tipped over when it hit the…"
"Anyone had similar issues with AC 3.1 builds?"
Yesterday I was test flying a quadcopter with an APM 2.5 board. All seemed well and just as I was about to start flying a circuit, the quad listed to the right front slowly and it seemed like I had no control. It naturally flipped upside down just…
"Hi Robert
Not the pixhawk but the original from https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/electronics/start"
Not the pixhawk but the original from https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/electronics/start"
"Hi Robert
Have you looked at the px4?"
Have you looked at the px4?"
"Depends how you power your apm. If you use a 3dr power module then you don't need esc's with a bec"
"A lot of stores do not understand sma and rp-sma. Check the Wikipedia article see the external links photo gallery for the correct examples.
Sma male has thread on inside with a center pin. Sma female has thread on outside with no center pin. They…"
Sma male has thread on inside with a center pin. Sma female has thread on outside with no center pin. They…"
"See my Google plus post photos for today"
"I have mine mounted on the top plate next to my receiver and data radio"
"Have a look a libelium waspmote.
It would be easy enough to integrate the data from something like that into a custom MAVLINK frame and get your APM/Pixhawk to send it down to your GCS."
It would be easy enough to integrate the data from something like that into a custom MAVLINK frame and get your APM/Pixhawk to send it down to your GCS."
