Dirt-cheap throwaway cargo drone

Howdy,

I'm looking for a design (parts list, assembly diagrams & instructions) for a dirt-cheap DIY quadcopter or octocopter cargo drone. 

Because of the environmental conditions that it'll be facing, it's not expected to survive more than a few flight

Book on UAV Sensors

Hello ,

I am looking for a book that helps me to understand how sensors for UAVs are designed so that I can design sensors myself . 

Can anyone please provide some suggestions.

Thanks in Advance.

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PIXHAWK CUBE NOT BOOTING WITH BENEWAKE TF02 PRO

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Anybody know of an I2C RPM Sensor?

Hi,

   I'm new to the hobby (of drones, not R/C Aircraft).  I love computers and programming, so I thought I'd take on an educational project of making an autopilot out of a $35 Raspberry Pi computer. So far I have a functioning Mini Maestro servo con

What Are the Advantages of Environmental Protection UAV?

In some area, such as natural reserves, wetland protection, drinking water sources, monitoring of marine, drone is an emerging detection tools to help people work more efficiently.

Due to the large supervision area, inconvenient transportation and re

VTOL UAV for Security and Delivery

A surveillance drone is used by governments, private companies or military organizations to enhance security and defense missions.

The security and defense industry was one of the first to embrace drone technology, with the first military drones dati

Anyone sharing photos ?

Hi,

I would want to evaluate some software solution to create orthophotos, any of you can share some (small) set of nadir aerial pictures ?

Thanks

Presentation 30 x 40 mm Autopilot based on ATMEGA 1280 in an aircraft with 490 mm wing span

Hi all,

I would like to present my new UAV project based on the ATMEGA 1280 and Arduino language. On the autopilot there is the ATMEGA 1280, a 5V and 3.3V regulator, 4 low pass filters for the IMU, 4 connectors to motor/servos and connectors to the t

Building with arduino along with possibly a pi, and communicating with sbus.

Ok, so this will be my first arduino and raspberry pi build of a drone, although I am actually trying to figure out the best way to do this and I'm planning to start with a fixed wing first. I picked upma decent motor and esc and i have all the servo

Custom Virtual Reference Station(VRS) System

Is there a service that offers the functionality to register RTK basesand NTRIP 
Casters and through a mount point, obtain the drone position and return an RTCM from a virtual base? 

I'm interested in getting this solution or developing it myself.

If I'

Pix4D Training Services

 Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the field of photogrammetry and mapping and I'm trying to decide on a mapping software. One of the applications I'm considering is PIX4D, and whether or not to sign up for the companies training and certification courses.
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Indian Army invites Garuda, an MS Dhoni backed Drone startup to provide its expertise

Indian Army is now looking to upgrade for Modern warfare and rising threat of cross border activities via drones

The emerging drone Startup of India – GARUDA AEROSPACE, is in news again .

MS Dhoni Backed Drone startup has been invited by Indian Army to

B/E red light

Hi,

I`m using pix32 v5 and there is a red blinking red led on the B/E (FMU), which i understand means that the pixhawk is on bootloader mode, how do you cancel this mode and get back to aa normal mode?

Thank you

PID Tuning

Since I didn't have a problem other than a little wobble when taking off in althold and loiter modes, I flew in a plan that I uploaded to mp in auto mode. It was a successful flight, but I think my pid values are still not very good. It wobbles a lot

Best beginner drones

I'm looking to get into using a drone and just wondering what's the best bang for my buck. I know of DJI, but that's a little out of my price range. I want something to play around with and with a camera to de ide if i want to spend the eaxtra chash

Help me spend drone money!

Hello all.

I’m in the simultaneously enviable and unenviable position of suddenly having an unexpected $6000 to spend on drone-related equipment in the next month in order to start a drone program at the school where I teach. I’m an almost complete no

What can Drone be used to do? for all ?Like an AI

Chatgpt can do a lot of thing. Like a baby do things with some mistake but Innocent.

Some time I thought drone is a part of AI. But not so intelligent now.

There are a lot of thing Drone help the human do 

They are working such mapping, SAR, and surveil

The Holy Stone HS720

Hello.

Next week I'll go traveling to West-USA. I've just bought the holy stone hs720. Is it safe to let it fly above high canyons? Because of the depth of the canyons?

Thanks for the answer!

Quadair drone review

Configuration file to ublox neo M8N (pixhawk)

Hello,

Does anybody have good configurating file to M8N. And may be somebody have a good tutorial, or can explain , how to load configuration file into u-center, to do some changes and save it again. Or easier way to create that file from zero. 

Alread

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Bom dia pessoal! Sou novo no grupo e também começando a trabalhar com Drones. Estou tentando montar a especificação para adquirir um Drone para uma competição de drones autônomos que acontecerá em outubro no Robótica 2023. Este Drone precisa ter uma