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Best video cam for FPV

I am curious what other 'ArduPilots' use for their primary FPV camera. I have been using the one below and it works well, for how cheap it is ($17).... Anyone know any good cameras to use for FPV on a budget?

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how to arm arducopter 3.1.r5??

So I just updated the APM to 3.1.r5 and now I cant arm. Does anyone know what I need to do to arm the copter in 3.1x? I have a gps lock. I am pushing the left stick to the bottom right corner. What am I missing?

thanks in advance.

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just updated APM to 3.1-rc-4

Hi,

I just  updated APM to 3.1-rc-4 , did the live calibration and tried to take it out for a simple run and it wont arm. Is there a new arming scheme other than turning the left stick to the far right??

Thanks in advance.

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Nightlight LEDs On/Off switch from transmitter

Hi yall,

Is there a way to turn on and off a set of LED lights from the APM [aux]? I want to add an elaborate nightlight setup BUT I dont want it on all of the time. So I would like to have the ability to turn on and off the nightlight from the rc tra

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3-axis gimbals?

Anyone into these yet?

The alexmos looks really cool as it basically smooths out the yaw problem. So now I would love to get something like this going on my quad with gopro...

So has anyone looked into this gimbal?

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I'd like to get this but this stuff te

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ArduCopter 3.1?

Hi Yall,

Just curious when one could start seeing ArduCopter 3.1 in the Mission Planner [beta or release]?

I'd like to try out some of the new features.

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device orientation? interference?? ESCs???

Hi yall,

So I have been putting together different builds around an arducopter v3.0.1 using APM 2.5.2. So far I have had at least 20 great flights using different builds including a H-Quad frame and a RcTimer 450.

Yesterday, I took it out to try some n

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GPS and Dead Cat

Hi,

I just started to use Arducopter and had my first successful flights yesterday.  I set up my tgy 9x radio to include loiter, and return to home. Today I am rebuilding this quad to be a deadcat style.

What I am wondering is, is there anything I need

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