I use APM 2.5 and inbuilt compass and DO NOT use an external magnetometer.
In the mission planner, we have the option of enable magnetometer. Do I check it?? It has the symbol of the external compass. I am using in built compass only. It allows calibr
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Can some one tell me how I can see the compass mot (in %) via Mission planner. I would like to place my APM board in such a way so that the interference is the least. Currently it is on the lower most plate right above the PDB/
Any suggestions on h
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I bought the:
- Arducopter complete kit (unassembled) from 3DR
- 3S 5000mAh LIPO battery from Hobbyking (here)
Problem:
While building from my Arducopter kit, while soldering/ connecting the PDB, I found that I did not receive a connector compatible f
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I am looking for a Power supply for charging my 5000mAh, 3S 11.1V battery (3 cell) to be used at HOME.
I already have the charger Turnigy Accucel-6 50W 6A Balancer/Charger.
Would like to buy something affordable, from Amazon or similar place, t
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I want to know how can I communicate information stored in a class or struct from ArduPilot (i.e. Arduino) to Raspberry PI or Beaglebone, via serial port or an I2C port from ArduPilot board??
I have a struct or a class that will hold some dynam
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The APM/ Arducopter source code comes with LGPL (Less General Public License) with it. I am talking about both ArduPilot source code (i.e. ArduPlane, ArduCopter,etc) and Mission Planner source code.
Does this mean the source code can be 'freely
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I have lost the USB cable that came with APM 2.5 board. I am not sure if it is micro USB cable or a larger one, and any specifications might help me (Type A or B).
I live in Netherlands, can someone point to where I can purchase it online?
Than
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I thought to get a new forum rolling for this topic. People have touched upon it in some forums.
Discussions:
1. Streaming real-time camera images from Raspberry PI on the Arducopter
2. WiFi support of data from Rasp PI
3. User extension to Rasp
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I have bought the Arducopter kit, and uploaded the v2.9.1 version of code. However, I want to edit the code at quite a few places for my own project with it.
I have used Visual Studio before with APM, however it seems that v2.9 requires a modi
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I got my new APM 2.5. I am running it under Windows, arduino 1.01 with VS 2010. I am using ArduPlane 2.68 and 2.67 source code. It builds successfully. However, the problem is:
1) When I open the serial monitor the accelerometers/ gyro keep ca
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I want to modify Mission Planner with my own ideas for my application with Arducopter. I saw various posts for Mission Planner source download, but I ain't getting it correct. I know it is open source and developed in C# WinForms, am I corre
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I am looking for best performance LIPO battery for the 3D Robotics Quad-C frame kit (I bought the unassembled version - gonna assemble it this weekend).
My Configuration is (Default 3DR):
4X 10" propellors
4X 850kV Burshless Motors
4X 20A ESCs
Stan
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