I just finished building a 250 X quad a few days ago, did some short flight on Stabilize, and today I decided to try the Loiter / RTL mode and crashed it. I am pretty new to this so some help analyzing what I did wrong and/or what failed would
I'm looking to get back into ardupilot and I'm a little overwhelmed at the flight controller options. My last board was the original ArduPilot Mega from 10 years ago. I'm wondering if there is a reasonably priced, popular/standard flight controller o
I was wondering if anyone had any motor/prop combo suggestions for a multi-disciplinary school project involving an airframe of about 18 kg. We're looking at every option we can find, but it's a little hard to look motors up by thrust capabilities,
Some info about me before I go on, I am a watchmaker for about 5 years now and I've been looking to having a career change. What got me fascinated about mechanical timepiece is that I can literally see how it works and how well it made sens
I belong to a robotics club which has recently become facinated with these drones. We can get funding to purchase one from the local school district, but we need to get everything from one website/supplier to make the billing easy. if we bought this
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First of all, let me say that I think this is a fantastic forum / platform. I've been following it for a while without the use of an account and decided it was about time to sign up. The reason I signed up is because I am in desperate n
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There are many different size frame, the most popular is 180mm-250mm(180mm frame means the diagonal axis distance is 180mm), they are also used for FPV racing quadcopter; more bigger one is from 280 mm to
I am a high school student interested in drones and autopilots. I hope to be able to write some code and learn about the design of drones and autopilots. I would like to know how important math, and more specifically calculus, is in this field? Could
I have recently started writing a series of blog posts that detail how I have chosen to program my own IMU complimentary filter. I have done this for my own entertainment and as a learning opportunity. Hopefully others will find this inter
So I bought a crashed Solo because it came with lots of extras I can use as spares for my Solo. I have an old 3DR y6 kit, I'd like to use the Solo controller with the Y6. What can I swap over from the crashed solo and retain use of the Solo controlle
Hi there everyone. Referring to the last column (load type) of the table below, showing a specifications table of a DYS Samguk series WEI 2207 (2300kV) brushless motor, I am confused with the letters X3 and X4 written alongside battery/prop. What do
Hello everyone. My name is Alex, I'm from Austria and I hope to get my outcast 6s BLX tomorrow. Now I read everywhere that it is better not to bring batteries 2 x 3S. Instead of the golden bat and company on Amazon...