Hi Michael
See you've been busy again.
In the Configuration tab - PLANNER, right at the bottom, there is a new feature labelled
Load Waypoints on
SOUNDS exciting, but what does it do??
Also
On the main nav screen, the new heading/course marker lines
Read more…I am currently flying a "50cc' trainer with my APM. Initially it had a gasser engine in it, but we found that on the ground everything worked ok, but in the air everything went wrong. when we looked at the raw sensor data, it seemned that the lines a
Read more…Returned back from a weekend's flying, we did a total of 6 missions on sunday. In between that there was a few other times we turned the system on , connected Mavlink, and tuned PID settings.
When I was wanting to download the APM logs yesterday, i w
Read more…I got a set of xbees the 900mhz ones with SMA connectors and duck antennas both sides.
After some testing, we had some serious range issues, could not get more than 150m outdoors.
We tested with a 2nd set, range was good.
Back at the workshop, we re-
Read more…M, those waypoint circles are AWESOME. Cant wait for the weekend.
my latest set of questions :
1. when doing pid tuning, can you please add MIN and MAX values to the config screen tooltips. when Chris says "increase your P value by 20%", im still no
Read more…Hi all
the other night I was trolling the forums, and came accross a picture (google earth-type screenshot) where someone had posted a collection of parallel tracks, and the track log superimposed.
Looked like a search pattern.
Tonight I need it , an
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After "analizing my last flights, I have a problem that instead of doing a straight bee-line for the next waypoint, my drone snakes towards it in a s-pattern. I have attached a screenshot for reference.
I also want to make the plane turn more
Read more…I used to dump my logs after each day's flying, but since I have xbees, I record the t-log from the Mission planner screen.
After my last flight, I switched to CLI mode, connected the usb cable, and tried to download the apm log files.
To my surprise
Read more…Hi Michael
A few more points from my last sortie. I'll put them in point form again if thats ok with you, makes it easier to answer.
1. On the Gauges, could you make the speed range settable, my plane flies faster than 60km/h, so the needles are alwa
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I recently switched to Xbees from USB comms with my APM.
I had to use X-Xtu to get them talking, and all is working 100% on the testbench.
Mavlink now connects much faster than usb.
Went to the field today and had some problem getting them to c
Read more…Well, got my xbees set up yesterday on my Ardu - Hexacopter. She is starting to look like a beast with the following addons :
Stabilised camera mount with GoPro camera
Video TX and its aerial
Xbee with Aerial
6-sided gps dome arms, but no gps tray (stil
Read more…We have a few GoPro cameras on our Quads, and want to transmit live video down to the ground using 5.8ghz downlinks.
Does anyone know where I can get the 4-contact jack plug that connects into the camera loose, so I can make up my own video-out cable
Read more…Tested some auto missions this weekend. The ST Models Discovery turned out to be a GREAT platform for uav flight. It is a 1.4m Foamie with LOADS of space in the "cargo bay".
Missions went smoothly and everything worked 100%.
Then we took out the APM
Read more…Hi Guys
I was working in my planner tonight, and all was fine. Somewhere in the middle of things I decided to check for updated versions, and it updated to the very latest version (Mission planner that is).
Ever since then it wont connect Mavlink usi
Read more…How is both an airspeed sensor AND a sonar connected to the APM at the same time, This is needed for the autoLand and AutoTakeoff feature.
A link to the right place in the Wiki would be appreciated.
thanx
Wessie
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Been testing Simple mode in our indoor arena.
I assumed that it will take the position and heading when you switched on the quad as "home"
I fly around, and then enter alt_Hold in front of me with the Quad facing "tail in".
When I switch to simple mod
Read more…While setting up the Quads for my customers, I often wonder about the following (Jason, I think this my be yours).. ;-)
1. When you look at the dials in the planner, the heading is shown. Is that Heading supposed to be magnetic, or true north based?
Read more…Hi Chris,
This is not a moan, just some small things I would like to see in the next batches of quads to make an excellent product even better.
1. In the first batch I received from JDrones, all but one of the kits had bullet connectors soldered on
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