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It's been a long time since I've had to deal with R/C and a lot has changed in radios. I bought a pixhawk kit with a PPM encoder and a radio with the flysky fs-x8b reciever. What I'm struggling with, is connecting the flysky reciever to pix
Read more…Do you have any experience with these lipo batteries? I run a 7.2 NiMH battery, is it possible to run these 2s lipo and more (Ovonic Rebel)? I've read that certain battery combinations can heat up the motor and ESC, but don't know which one is the be
Read more…Agricultural drones have gone from being questioned by the market to being actively promoted by the government, from tens of thousands to thousands of dollars. Behind this is the rise of technology in the entire industry.
However, the degree of promo
Read more…Hi I'm new here from Melbourne, I bought a splash drone fishing drone. It was ok never flew quite as nice as my old phantom 3 ever did.
Anyway it run out of battery 350m out to sea and took a load of water and everything is toasted. It does turn on b
Read more…Hello, I have a project which requires a gas tank sensor to talk to the APM 2.8 The gas tank sensor is the typical 0-190Ω variety like this:
Read more…I am building a quadcopter from some parts that were donated to me and I am unsure of how exactly to connect the power distribution board, esbs and flight controller. This is my second build and a lot more complex than my first. I was hoping I could
Read more…Does anybody know if you no longer need a teensy board? I still have an older version of 'plane' on my pixhawk. I had to get a new Taranis plus my old one broke. Just trying to set up the telenetry again. The new / used X9D radio had newer FW on it s
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I've just signed up in the forum in the hope that someone will assist me with looking at the datalog of my last fatal flight! my quad has been flying nicely for a while now. I recently upgraded to 3.1 RC5, the first few flights seems rock solid, bu
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My name is Jason Farnam. I am a fourth year mechanical engineering student from UC Santa Barbara. Our senior capstone project is to make a drone that can remotely cut a branch and bring it back to the user.
We have built a relatively lightweig
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Futaba 2008SB Receiver. T16s7 Trainsmitter.
Pixhawk 2.4.8 two different units,
When the arming switched is pressed on the platform,
The throttle channel 3 +5 VDC goes to zero.
Reprogrammed the setup for channel 8 to be the throttle,
Sam
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Could you give me some impressions about the GCS you use? If you can answer these questions for me, it will be very helpful:
- What is your drones’ usage?
- Which GCS do you use and why?
- What are the main features you use?
- What are the best a
Read more…Some types of aerostructures are not RF transparent at 2.4GHz, and some aircraft designs use internal RF shielding. Both types require externally mounted RC antennas. We are fabricating an aircraft using carbon fiber aerostructures that are not RF tr
Read more…Hey! Friends, I found several charts about brushless motors (Brushless Motor Chart), which explain the relationship between motor size, voltage, and speed very well. Honestly, this knowledge is very helpful for beginners. Saving these charts will sav
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Im going to some university work to show, some automation thing for my class. And I will talk about UAV. I have some question, Can I talk about fly by wire system? The fly by wire system airplane is the similar in the UAV? And somebody have a g
For an engineering project for high school, I have chosen to build an automated delivery drone, capable of carrying 1 kg of cargo, in addition to the dropping system we are going to build.
I need help optimizing this build for flight time, flight ran
I am building my first 5" camera drone. I need suggestions on a suitable Flight Control Stack and quad ESC with at least 45 amps. I don't want a bare bones controller but one that has lots of room to grow with new features. I will be using BetaFlight
Read more…I have been able to calibrate the vertical lift esc (4-in-1) but can't figure out how to calibrate the pusher ESC...
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