Hello All,
After plenty of testing I have concluded that the SRF02 sonar is NOT A VIABLE REPLACEMENT for the Maxbotics MB1200 series of sonars for the downward looking (alt hold) sonar on Arducopters.
It may however be OK as candidate for any future ob
When comparing a couple of I2C (digital) sonars with the normal (analog) sonars I noticed the range reported by the analog sonar appeared to be wrong. A tape measure proved the digital sonars were spot on and the analog data was well off. Other users
Read more…Back in June, Pieter suggested that we add a form of 'user hook' in to the arducopter code to simplify the use of user written additions or enhancements to the main branch off the arducopter code.
The problem we had was that every time Jason released
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Using a Wii remote camera for Arducopter navigation is possible.
Following Leon's great blog post showing the use of a camera from a WII remote as a 3D position sensor I've been playing around and having a think about how we could use the Wi
Read more…Took my Arducopter out for spin today.
Good:
Stabilise and Simple modes work very well - no issues
Alt Hold works very well most of the time - more on this
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I'm operating a stock standard Arducopter 2 from jdrones with GPS, Magnetometer, MB1200 Sonar and a Turnigy 9x radio
Over the past couple of months I have seen the occasional odd behaviour with the Sonar when bench testing with the CLI Sonar te
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When I first built my Arducopter I had no idea what the various sounds it made meant. Now I have some familiarity with it I thought it may be worth sharing.
First thing to know is the sounds come from a couple of places.
For me the first sound
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