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I build UAVs
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"I certainly don't have any better numbers to give. We crashed our X8 into the SF Bay a long time ago, and haven't tried flying a new one since. But the Pixhawk seems to work well right out of the box. Make sure your manual override is working, and…"
"Hi Marco.
With ArduCopter 3.2.1, almost immediately after it boots up, my motors all start running at a medium-low speed, even before arming. They never change speed, and adjusting THR_MIN has no effect (although I'm not sure I successfully adjusted…"
With ArduCopter 3.2.1, almost immediately after it boots up, my motors all start running at a medium-low speed, even before arming. They never change speed, and adjusting THR_MIN has no effect (although I'm not sure I successfully adjusted…"
I have an old Mikrokopter with v1.2 BL-CTRL drivers on it. I connected my Pixhawk i2c bus to it (nothing else on the bus), installed ArduCopter 3.2.1 on the Pixhawk, and powered it all up. Nothing special happened, but I get good data from the…
"Nope. I bought the RFD900u, which comes with perfect little cables, only to realize it's a 100 mW radio, not a 1 W radio. I'll just have to make my own."
Hi all. I'm trying to find cables for my new Pixhawk autopilot.I don't know why they had to go and change the connectors from the PX4. But the cable I used to have for the RFD900 is a five-conductor cable, and the telemetry ports on the Pixhawk are…
Hi. I need to process log files. I had been told before that .tlog files were based on QGroundControl format, but looking at one, it does not seem to contain valid data. That is, the first 8 bytes do not seem to be a valid timestamp, there is no…
"Ah, so there are fuel cells that use propane directly. I didn't realize that. Wonder where I can score one…
For sure, there will be batteries involved. We might design a complete power management system (I'm an EE by training) to manage charging the…"
For sure, there will be batteries involved. We might design a complete power management system (I'm an EE by training) to manage charging the…"
"Sure, it's fuel, but it's not internal combustion, with all its attendant issues (weight, noise, vibration, need for a generator, etc.). Plus, the fuel cell is just cooler. Maybe we can put one (or more) of these Horizon Fuel Cells into our plane. I…"
"Simon, I wanted to talk to you about your fuel cell. We're planning a very long endurance flight, and were thinking we'd have to switch to gas. If you can do 10 hours with a fuel cell…we'd like to do 20."
"3.96 kg, if I recall correctly (including a 96 g GoPro HD 2 in the nose, required for CG as well :-) )."
"We also had to put the batteries very far forward. We ended up with all the avionics in the back (except for the telemetry radio and airspeed sensor). We ran power cables pretty far. Didn't have any issues at all, although telemetry range might've…"
"Start with calm wind. The X8 flies very well on default settings."
"Unfortunately, we had grown complacent in our UAV's reliability. We've done a dozen flights without incident, and so weren't paying very close attention to the telemetry showing the gradual descent. Even if we had had a joystick, it's not clear it…"
"We have our batteries very far forward, and even so we have to fly with a GoPro camera in the very front.
Sadly, our UAV decided to fly into SF bay over the weekend. We had telemetry all the way down. We had to buy a cheap inflatable boat and…"
Sadly, our UAV decided to fly into SF bay over the weekend. We had telemetry all the way down. We had to buy a cheap inflatable boat and…"
"We're flying our X8 at 4kg total weight, with an E-flite Power 32 motor, Castle ICE 75 Lite ESC, 4x 5000 mAh 4S packs in parallel, 13 x 6 folding prop.
We put a GoPro on one wing tip today; it was too much weight, and we did not have enough…"
We put a GoPro on one wing tip today; it was too much weight, and we did not have enough…"
Hi. I've just installed an APM2 running v2.5 in my plane, replacing the APM1 that was in there before.I've got a 45 A Atto sensor hooked up. In APM Planner v1.2 mav 1.0, I have Monitor set to 4, and I try to set Sensor to 1. But it keeps getting set…
