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Getting Pixhawk to work with Emax

It's not a new thing that people can't get the pixhawk to work with emax escs.

If someone has any solution to this problem, please post it here.

If there are no solutions, then could it be possible to make a firmware change to allow stuff people have b

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Bad AHRS - Pixhawk

Pixhawk, Arduplane 3.2.2.

Hello guys,

having a problem to make EKF to work. 
As soon as I put the EKF_ENABLE 1, the massage "BAD AHRS" appears on my Mission Planner screen. I couldn't find any similar topic on other forums so you're my last chance

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temperature effect on gyro

When I started using my APM2-based quad in sub-zero temperature (actually around +10C still) I have to re-level it almost after each landing, even the very soft landing. Maybe it's not the temperature, but I have to check something else?

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Skywalker X8 Build

Hi guys.

I'm waiting for my Skywalker X8 Black to arrive but in the meantime I have started thinking about a suitable build for mapping large areas. Jobs would be between 2 to 10 square kilometres.  Therefore long flight time are required.

The only 3 s

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Triggering Flir Vue Pro using PWM

Hello all.

I am somewhat of a newbie currently trying to interface the Flir Vue Pro drone thermal camera for a project and was wondering if someone had managed to trigger image capture by connecting the PWM to a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

I looked int

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Can't disable pre-arm checks

I am trying to do some bench testing indoors.  I can not get the Pixhawk (v3.3) to arm no matter what I try:

1)  Disable prearm checks

2)  Make all flight modes non-gps modes

3)  Change GPS_TYPE to zero (meaning no gps)

4)  Change AHRS_GPS_USE to zero

Aft

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