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  Rafael Ortega Muñoz April 10, 2014 at 3:16am

  Surely had some stored waypoints and pulsastes the auto mode or you accidentally put the throttle and reverse mode
• Arwin March 8, 2014 at 8:16am

  ANyone Know how to make 2 APM2.6 working together 1 as master and another one for back up (Slave mode). I want to make redudancy 

  Reards

  LM Arwin 
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  Baja Brucie March 2, 2014 at 12:20pm

  Have hopefully backed 2 units.

  Plan to use horizontal and vertical  on my 3DR X8 2014 (on order)..

  Have heard (unofficially) from on high that Pixhawk is (or will be) compatible but

  cannot attest to that yet. Lidar could be a gamechanger.

  Syay tuned
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  Bob Kirkpatrick February 26, 2014 at 3:26am

  Can anyone tell me if the Pixhawk can use the new Lidar-Lite optical distance measuring device? It's I2c compatible, and so I assume it can plug into the I2C hub, but would the Pixhawk know what do do with it? Is is the same as sonar?

  Link to Lidar-Lite
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  Randy February 13, 2014 at 5:16pm

  Sufal,

      Re the PX4Flow.  It's not supported by the ArduCopter software yet.  This is mentioned on the bottom of the page in the 3dr store.  Unfortunately I think it's unlikely that it will ever be supported on the APM2 due to CPU limitations and lack of spare serial ports.  I'm pretty sure it will be supported on the Pixhawk in AC3.2 or AC3.3.  I've added a warning about lack of support for the APM2 to the wiki....  Sorry for the troubles.
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  Austin Laws January 15, 2014 at 10:29am

  selling my apm 2.5 quad check out my link:

  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141166088602?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&am...
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  John McGrath January 7, 2014 at 1:14pm

  Guys if you have a bad regulator why not fix it? Most are all DIY types on here get a soldering iron (low wattage) and replace it then get the better update. If mine was blown thats what I would do.
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  Sean Headrick January 7, 2014 at 11:21am

  I had the same problem, likely a blown regulator. seems a pretty common problem. In the "load Firmware" section of mission planner there is an  option at the lower right side that says "load previous firmware" or "load previous version" . You can find version 2.9 there.
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  Drone-University.com January 3, 2014 at 1:12pm

  @essam

  You may have a look at this French site : http://airinov.fr/concept#/concept/télédétection

  They are using 4 different lenses of which 2 different IR, specifically to do exacftly what you are looking for.

  You may use Google automatic translation if you cannot read French.

  Cheers
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  Michael Pursifull January 3, 2014 at 10:47am

  @Essam: ArduCopter has no trouble at all climbing to 2200 AGL; in fact, it can get there very quickly.... the limiting factors here is regulatory and one of resolution and of vibration. As you are in the US, you'll need to stay under 400ft AGL. Being closer helps in that each pixel of your camera will cover a smaller bit of your target, meaning that it is generally more useful. It also means that whatever blur effect you have from high frequency vibration is a bit less destructive to the data, as long as it is within acceptable limits.

  What is the reason you need to capture the entire area in a single shot (vs taking multiple shots in rapid succession using a patterned flight and stitching them together?) There are a growing number of software packages that stitch the photos together for you....