"Implementing autopilot behavior switch on an already dead airframe - would that not introduce more risk than it would mitigate? Like if it falsely triggers etc.
But it would be nice to have a working post crash detection and shutdown, which might…"
"Rana, have you seen the implementation of how the automatic altitude deduction is made?
It is (in my opinion and experience anyway) too complicated, too error prone and too confusing. Among other things, APM keeps a variable of the home altitude, MP…"
"Love your initiative :) - But do always use absolute altitude, unless you just fly a small copter in small circles. I learned it the hard way too, in Swiss mtns."
"Did u accidentally plug it back in reversed?
Yeah I had similar experiences with smaller copters. One with an APM1 leapt off a table and kamikazed into the costliest enemy installation around, my laptop. Turns out that under some circumstances, it…"
"Was gonna say the same. It looks sooo much like a 45 degrees off error, ie, an X copter configured as a + or opposite.
OP please check that. And you can remove propellers and check that only the front one motor (+) or both front motors (X) speed up…"
"Hi,
The last time I looked, the gimbal control code in ArduCopter was for controlling an old style servo gimbal, with stabilisation and all. The SimpeBGC does not need any of that.
I suggest you run a servo wire directly from your receiver to the…"
"Hi,
Well fell free to ask me. I an an AU alumni :) - Computer Science. I am not in Aarhus any longer though.
I never had the Bormatecs but I know them from a friend. He cut his Maja up and moved a section or the forward fuselage to the rear, to get…"
"Don't worry too much, what happened there is not the future. It is a phenomenon that will end as soon the novelty wears off and those, ah, idiots will find some other way to believe they appear cool.
Also, the photos or vids from 10 ft over peoples…"
"Hi, firmware update works only through USB.
The reason is that the bootloader, which is the only software component that can do the job, is only active for a second or so after reset. The USB serial port on APM and on Arduinos is therefore made so…"
"It's quite some larger (198 cm) than an Easy Star and looks okay. The small pusher props are neither very powerful nor efficient though. I once cut the whole tail off my ES and glued a thin balsa tailboom under the fuselage to make space for an 8…"
"Hi, funny story but really you have now learned that YOU and not the SW is the pilot in command.
Please learn to fly it well manually, so well that you are confident to take over in manual any time. Also when it's nose in etc.
Regards"
"Hi, I vaguely remember having been in this situation and having pulled the SD card out and read the boot.log file. And having found useful information there about a HW error I had, which caused it (bad compass wires in my case).
I also remember that…"
"You can write the parameter settings, and then pull the USB cable. As soon as the USB is pulled, that should cause the output to appear on the telemetry port instead of USB (the smaller PPM encoder CPU takes care of that).
I'm not quite sure about 2…"
"Hi,
You do know the radios break the byte stream into frames and can send only whole frames, right? The 3DR radios can be set to look at or not look at the MAVLink message boundaries when doing this, in order to avoid splitting MAVLink messages over…"
"Do you have VirtualBox installed on that? I sometimes suspect that it messes things up.
I'm planning to get rid of Windows altogether, maybe you want to join me? :)"