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Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
We are providing the proper voltage supply to the main board (right around 7.5V), yet the port where we supply voltage to the XBee on the plane is only outputting 0.5V.  Any ideas why?  The board is soldered properly.  
Mar 4, 2011
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
We ahve succesfully loaded the code to the ardustation and our buad rates match.  When we power the station with an adequate voltage source the LCD screen does not give a readout even when we checked and it is recieveing power through our female pin…
Feb 24, 2011
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
I am attempting to load the code to a Sparkfun main board, no shield (we have one but are in the middle of trouble shooting some issues).  The load time took several minutes and at the end I received the following error: avrdude:…
Feb 3, 2011
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
I have checked every debugging item and all are correct/fixed.  I am using a PC with Windows 7 and I get the following error when loading the code: avrdude: ser_send(): write error: sorry no info avail Any ideas?
Dec 7, 2010
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
When we hook up a battery to the board, what LED's should light up?  When attempting to load the code, what is the order in which the LED's should blink or alternate?We are having trouble loading the code, and keep getting errors.  We have a 3.3V (3…
Nov 2, 2010
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
How is it that the ardupilot code doesn't ask you for moments of inertia, mass, aspect ratio, etc.?  I have not found where the code asks for these.
Oct 28, 2010
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
We are having issues when attempting to upload the code to the main Ardupilot board.  From what we have read it appears to be a hardware issue.  All our solders look fine and everything appears to be connected properly.  We read that the board can…
Oct 27, 2010
Senior Design 2010 posted a discussion
We are working on a senior design project at the University of Arizona Department or Aerospace Engineering.  Part of our project utilizes Ardupilot, and we are trying to figure out how to (if its even possible) tune the code to fit a specific…
Oct 25, 2010