Simon Howroyd's Discussions (13)

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Reversing deflections

Hi all,

I'm sat scratching my head trying to do something which is easy on APM...

My PX4 is all set up and working...however, in seatbelt mode, the autopilot actuation is reversed for the elevator and rudder. Ailerons are fine. My control inputs come t

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Ardustation

Hi All,

I am struggling to find any concise information on ArduStation, but bits and pieces I can find suggest it is a pretty handy bit of kit that I might consider exploring...

My main intent it to create a SIMPLE antenna tracker. Simple because it in

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Build Tips & Tricks

Hi all,

I'm about to start building my third X8 tomorrow (crashed due to a horrible gust on launch at 6.6kg all up). I notice a lot of peeps are managing to put the batteries in the middle of the fuselage. Just wondering how people have managed to bal

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Wing Flutter

Hi All,

Thought I should open this; yesterday I started experiencing some pretty horrendous wing flutter across the whole aircraft. It was a first harmonic, so the fuselage went up, both wingtips wend down (and vice versa), bending I would guess aroun

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APM2.5 and XBee not working

Hi all,

For some reason I just cannot get any data from my APM2.5 via xbee. Never had any troubles with APM2.

I am connected to the "new wireless port" on APM2.5 via a UartSBee breakout.  The two XBee's connect to each other, no problem, however I am r

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Fuel Cells in Unmanned Aircraft

Hi all,

Just thought I should raise a bit of awareness into the research being conducted at Loughborugh University here in the UK!

I'm in the early stages of a 4yr project implementing both PEM and SOFC fuel cells into small unmanned, commercial off th

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Multiple MAVLink Channels (UART)

Hi all,

I have just received my APM2 today so I'm a new user.

I want the APM2 to send out the MAVLink messages to my XBee, which I believe is UART0 as per the usual setup procedure in the manual...no problems here.

HJowever, I ALSO want the same message

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MediaTek MT3329 GPS

Hi all,

I have bought a MediaTek MT3329 GPS chip, very nice, and am using it with my Arduino Nano.


I am trying to set it to output the diydrones message message at 10Hz, 38400baud.

I believe the setup code should be:


Serial.begin(38400);

Serial.print("$PM

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