I am looking to have some aerial photography / videography work done in the Naples Florida area next week (yes, short notice I know). If you or someone you know has the capabilities to fly a full DSLR for multiple flights in the same day please send
Read more…Can the 3DR uBlox GPS with Compass Kit be used on the APM 2.5 or do you have to use a 2.6?
Read more…Does anyone have any advice or tricks to getting a nice stable, location static flight at 150 feet up? FPV doesn't seem to provide enough information as to whether the helicopter is drifting to any great degree as we are basically looking at the hor
Read more…I am just getting started with a project to be able to control an Arducopter using one of my Leap Motion Controllers...has anyone else tried something like this? I am thinking I am going to make the controls very similar to those that you can use in
Read more…I recently set up the transmitter failsafe on my HEX. In order to do this, and get it to kick in when the transmitter was turned off, I had to adjust the end points on my transmitter.
Yesterday I went to test my HEX, and when I plugged in the batteri
Read more…I am throwing the question out to the community to try and get some tips on better isolation techniques for video capture on a multicopter.
We are flying a HEX here at work, and while stills come out just fine, we still have some jello issues on video
Read more…I spent some time flying my HEX in our offices today to test a new camera gimbal, and after about a 2 minute flight I landed to check the footage. When I went to disconnect the battery, both the battery and the leads from the battery were really war
Read more…Is anyone else having trouble with the 2.9.1b HEX firmware? Each time I load it, my virtual horizon goes crazy. If I load the latest QUAD everything is fine so I think that rules out issues with the board. Has anyone else seen this?
Read more…Before I burn up another one of these things, can I power a camera and transmitter off of a 3S LiPo battery? The specs for the camera say 9 - 12.6v and the specs for the transmitter say 8 - 12v.
I tried using a 3S on another camera and transmitter an
Read more…I have a new Arducopter running 2.9.1 that flew a few times after being put together. It started bucking wildly in flight and now won't take off, it just flips over.
Has anyone ever seen this? I have checked my connections, calibrated the ESC's a nu
Read more…Hopefully someone here can shed some light on what might be going on here. Occasionally when I am flying my Arducopter, it "bucks" wildly and then settles down again. It is as if one or two of the motors speed up quickly and then slow down.
Is this
Read more…Question, I am in the process of assembling my 3DR kit, and the instructions seem out of sync with the parts that I received...is there a new set of documentation for assembly other than what is in the wiki that I should reference?
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