I've been looking around the forums for the android GCS. There are several threads but all seem to be halted. Is there still progress on the subject? The Mission Planner has become a nice little jewel so why not jump on the android wagon?
IMHO it wou
Read more…I managed to flash some turnigy plush ESC's for my APM quadcopter and at firts glance it flie great. You can really see and feel the difference compared to the stock FW of the ESC's.At a certain moment the quad just flew to the side and crashed but l
Read more…Hi,
I'm working on a simple GPS Xbee tracking project.
It seems that you can directly connect a gps with NMEA output to a XBEE and send the data over to a xbee connected pc.
I've tried this but it doesn't really work. I get data but its unreadable.
My s
Read more…I'm allready following the APM project for more than two years now and gained a lot of experience through DIYdrones but also from building 3 quads. A lot of failure but getting a succesfull flight from time to time is motivating. In the begining, bei
Read more…As I'm using APM2 now, I wanted to connect with xbee.
On APM1 all works fine.
I connect to UART0/2 and have no connection.
I have checked that the traces are there. Then with some reading in the forums I connected the xbee to the side UART0 but still no
Read more…I received my nw APM2, connected everything as described and loaded the code in MP. (2.5.3)
I did the setup through MP, calibrating TX, leveling, ....
Did arming test in MP and all goes well. LED A stays on and led C blinks. All OK!!!!
Disconnecting fro
Read more…Looking around for a gopro 2 axes gimbal, allmost every mount comes without servo's.
What are the best servo's to be used with arducopter so that the gimbal runs very smooth.
Read more…I'm having a issue with one of my APM1 boards.
The handtest shows that the quad wants to make a lot of movement in random directions.
First of all the compass states 'not healthy' with CLI test. I desoldered the mag and want to test the APM on its own.
Read more…My quad project has been running for over a year now and since the beginning i've been using APC 10x4.5 and EPP 10x5 props without big problems. Nevertheless I prefer the APC's.
I've been surfing a lot of multirotor threads and have seen a lot of quad
Read more…I've was very happy with the lateste ACM code concerning AH.
Untill I switched to v48.
In AH mode the motors start pulsing alot and suddenly go up to a certain height, I think the border height between sonar and baro. When reached it starts descending
Read more…I would like to hear some opinions on flashing ESC's
I've been reading about this over at rcgroups
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1513678
The main advantages, from what I read, would be that:
-the speed between controler and ESC is 8 t
Read more…I would like to put a turnigy plush 30A ESC in to a small sapce.
The only thing thats in the way is the capacitator. Removing this is not an option.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=975333
My idea is to put the capa, that is soldered bet
Read more…If you look at DJI and now also Xaircraft, they are introducing a "pilot light" that shows the pilot an external indication of the quads status.
http://www.xaircraft.co.uk/acatalog/X650_CF___Glass_Spares.html
http://www.foxtechfpv.com/index.php?main_
Read more…I've been having ESC arming problems with a couple of ACM versions.
The last two versions I flew, v37 and 42, there was no problem, but with some other versions including the recent v43 not all ESC's arm immediatly. They keep beeping for a while (30-4
Read more…Has someone tried these for mounting the APM on the centerplate?
They seem to be used quite often with the MK platform.
http://shop.jet-1a.com/product_info.php?products_id=1795&osCsid=bb54eda025c9c19c64b89e3643d04de2
Read more…Whilst spending a lot of time on this project I found a way of distracting the kids a little bit and giving them a helping hand in designing a new hood for the arducopter.
Its made of styrofoam and canbe painted by the kids.
Could it be possible to add a seperate window or tab with all gps data in it like for example which and how many sats are received, ...
Read more…Flying several batt yesterday I was eager to test v38 today.
Loading went good. No probs there.
There stills seems to be a problem between the PWM values when calibrating TV in CLI and MP. The values are not the same.
When config was done I switch to fl
Read more…Hi, I loaded the latest trunk code 37 (with relay control) into two quad. Each about the same dimensions only with two different motors.
Stable mode is very stable in windless conditions. Alt hold and Loiter are very accurate so no problems their. I w
Read more…Hi,
Just loaded the latest code fromthe wiki v31 and did a quick test.
Alt hold problem with sonar is still there as discribed in issues v30. Did a CLI sonar test and works fine.
Also no logs can be found.
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