shai's Discussions

High Pixhawk placement on frame

Hello, I designed a quadcopter frame with the Pixhawk centered but sitting ~12cm higher than the motor/propeller plane. Can there be any problems because of that?

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Pairing telemetry radios

Hello,

I have 2 sets of telemetry radios.

Both sets are of the 433MHz version.

Is it possible to pair a radio from set A with a radio from set B ?

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Pixhawk loiter mode malfuncation

Hello,

I'm flying a Pixhawk controlled Quad with the telemetry radio temporary removed.

I have 2 flight modes set on my Spektrum radio - Alt Hold and Loiter.

While in Alt Hold - everything works fine.

However, when I change the flight mode to Loiter, my

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3DR Solo gimbal feedback

Hello,

Does the gimbal of the Solo quad feature some kind of feedback?

Or is it open loop?

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Strange acceleration reading

Hello,

I downloaded the flight logs from my Pixhawk through the Mission Planner Software and saw something strange.

While the X and Y Acceleration Graphs where centered around 0, the Z Acceleration was centered around -10.

logs.png

Is this normal?

What c

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Firmware version of my Pixhawk

Hello,

Is there a quick way to find out via the telemetry link what firmware version my Pixhawk is running ?

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Invoke Autotune from Mission Planner

Hello,

Is it possible to invoke the Autotune process from the Mission Planner GUI while in flight ?

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Changing Pixhawk flight modes

Hello,

I'm using the Pixhawk autopilot with a telemetry link and a 6 channel Spektrum transmitter.

6 channels don't don't allow me to cover all the flight modes that I desire to use.

Question:

Is it possible to change the flight modes of my quad in fli

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Hello,

I'm using the Pixhawk flight controller on a Quadcopter.
With the throttle stick on my RC transmitter all the way up - My ESCs will deliver current well above the rating of my brushless motors - effectively burning the windings.

I know that I can

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Standalone accelerometer vs AHRS

Hello,

As a learning project - I'd like to build a PID stabilized see-saw (DC motor with a propeller on each end).

At the center of the see-saw teetering axis I need an inclination sensing element.

Do you think a fully featured AHRS is required or a sim

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Sensors and interfaces

Hello everybody!

I was looking on sparkfun.com to buy a 3-axis accelerometer for learning and training purposes.

From what I understand, some of the accelerometers have an integrated interface (SPI, I2C, etc...) while others simpler versions output

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