For the longest time I considered this a waste of time, and something that was probably a huge hassle and not worth it. Want to know why some people have copters that dont wobble and fly perfect? Aside from the usual stuff, I would bet 90% of them ac
Read more…How many of you are running the stock size prop and motor? Being as how there only selling them in kit form I elected to use a 10X6 prop with a new Turnigy SK3 1200KV motor I had laying around. I only considered doing so after I read that someone o
Read more…I was about to load a version of the 3.3 firmware, but when I navigated to the repository there 2 files, Arducopter1.px4 and arducopter2.px4 . Which one am I suppose to use?
Read more…I have one of the GPS / Magnotemeter modules that are in a sealed case with a wire wrapped in tubing come out of it. At the end of the tube are the plugs for gps and I2C, and the I2C connects fine, but the GPS is a 5 pin plug and pixhawk wants a 6 pi
Read more…Has anyone else tried one of these out? I bought one just for something to play with and its pretty much a scaled down FX-61. In fact most are listed as FX-61 845mm planes but lately the "wing wing" (Which seems to be identical) has been popping up o
Read more…Allot of people have been using, and writing sotware for the xbox 360 kinect, because after all it has a 3d camera array, and a USB connector. you can get one on ebay for $30 or so used....and the power adapter for 5.99. I did a search first for abox
Read more…I recently found a need for some legs for my f450, but they want $50 for something obvoisly printed from china. They just copied someones design.
Im new to 3D Design.....But this looks pretty simple. The upper part slides into a 450 "short" leg and th
Read more…I know allot of people use this frame.Mostly because you can get a knockoff for about $20-25 so you can afford to buy an extra for spare parts. My setup is:
APM 2.5
Vibration Isolated by one of those nice 3D printed units
4 2812 1000 kv motors
4 20 amp E
Read more…Okay, So I have my stock setup, but I also have a bunch of 2217 1050kv Turnigy motors which is a pretty dependable, and Is my Go to motor for allot of things. I also have a 40 AMP Blue series ESC (Very Nice) and an Extremely nice Turnigy SK3536 1400k
Read more…First off Im fairly new to R/C planes, but not to electronics or the Ardu-Family. So I started with a bixler, but as soon as she was done I ended up selling it (without it ever being flown) but I had it pretty tricked out, and it got my feet wet (btw
Read more…I got this from a conspiracy website, called No drones. If you ever wondered just how paranoid some people are about drones, check out these excerpts from the site:
I'm not sure why I can't wrap my head around this, but I'm trying to attach the servos to RC 10 and 11. (I'm using the power module, JP1 is off)
Obviously just plugging them in causes a brownout, But to power them separately I would need to pull both
Read more…I have 1 motor that won't startup until well after the others have spun up. At first I thought it might be an esc calibration issue, so after many auto calibrations I did the manual calibrate.....But I still have the same problem. The same motor need
Read more…Now that it is possible to run 3rd party apps on the M$ Surface RT, It may be possible to install and run the MP. Im guessing that it should be able to run a USB device like the 3DR Telemetry module.....And would probably be able to do so with limite
Read more…I currently have a 3DR Telemetry unit on my Quad, and being something of a terrible pilot I use it quite often to fly with. All of that works great, with the telemetry unit connected (obviously) to the telemetry port on my APM2.5
But now I'm going to
Read more…There doesn't seem to be allot of info regarding the newer versions of the MP and Joystick control. Im thinking about buying a USB Xbox controller and trying it out, but when I did a search I found people having to put together a custom build... If I
Read more…I have not had the opportunity to fly both, so for those of us who have, what do you think?
I would think that a hex would be able to correct itself easier, since there is a prop in each direction, with much less space between props.....Plus if it lea
Read more…Everything armed before when I was runnin stock firmware. now with the er9x it wont.
Ive calibrated my radio through the mp (and on the radio) even brough up the offset so they aoo were above 1000. Everything is working great, it just wont arm!
Read more…I'm something of a Hacker.(no not a silly scrip kiddie) That was awhile back anyways :) I ordered the Smartie parts board before I ordered my 9x!
The first high dollar computer I built as a kid had the laser cut traces bridged (SO I could overclock it
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