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• Muhire Innocent April 28, 2023 at 2:49am

  am much interested in drone building and programming , have skills in machine learning too
• robert may January 21, 2021 at 12:00pm

  I’ve built two quadcopter drones using Ardupilot. I want to build an aircraft drone using a home built biplane wing. I want to use a Mate
  k H743 Wing flight controller which is supposed to run under Ardupilot but I'm unable to get the firmware loaded.
  
  When Ardupilot 1.3.74 tries to load firmware for Plane 4.0.7 it gets the error “Failed to discover board ID. Please reconnect via usb and try again.” This happens when flight controller is connected with the boot button pressed or not pressed.
  
  When the boot button pressed the Device Manager has an additional USB controller with a “DFU in FS mode”.
  Without the boot button pressed, there is an additional USB controller with a “STM32 Virtual ComPort in FS Mode”
  
  Also, without the boot button pressed, the normal startup lights and sounds for a flight controller initialization occur.
  
  Does anyone know what how to get the firmware loaded in Ardupilot?
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  Richard Kennedy September 23, 2019 at 5:28pm

  Also my pixjawk is in a Sig Senorita 3 channel plane. When I originally set it up I simply put the rudder on the aileron channel. It seemed to work. Should I do that differently now? I see some things in the params on that but not sure how to set that up. Thanks
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  Richard Kennedy September 23, 2019 at 5:11pm

  Hi there everybody. I have been out of the loop so to speak for 2-3 years. I have the original pixhawk. It's running 3.7.1 ... should I update the FW?? Is there a limit to the versions I should not go beyond with my older Pixhawk? Thanks
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  Andrei March 25, 2018 at 8:52am

  Hi ArduPlane fans,

  For all of you interested in the Internet of Drones platform which we are developing, please join to this group
  https://diydrones.com/groups/705844:Group:2432557?xg_source=msg_app...
  Among the many benefits provided by the platform some are:

  1. Remote visualization of the drones flights including others than your own

  2. Routes planning and remote control of own drones, from any place where the internet access is available
  3. Evaluates risk assessment for the planned routes

  4. Alerts for the potential colision, drone malfunction, entering restricted space and others

  5. Encrypted connection with the drone (optional for downlink)

  6. Manage your drone(s). In case of larger fleet, the drones can be gouped by purpose

  7. Visualization of the flights history

  8. Data sharing among the drones for the detected objects in airspace

  9 .Displaying dedicated airspace for drones (in later version as this will be specific to countries which currently in most of them is not fixed)

  The first version of the DroneRoute device will support Pixhawk flight controller

  

  DroneRoute - The Internet of Drones platform

  This group is created for the discussions related to the Internet of Drones platform, which we called DroneRoute
• Grant Petty November 18, 2016 at 12:42pm

  Any suggestions for vendors stocked with the variety of electrical connectors and cables needed for connecting RC gear to autopilot modules (e.g., Pixhawk2, etc.)?
• Mark peiffer May 10, 2016 at 8:55pm

  Thanks Craig- that's something I never knew. Really cool. My glider is more modest. I'm really new to pix4 and I was looking for advise or strategies to achieve a RTL on loss of signal or visual ID. Should I use a geofence. Or a loop to achieve a circling descent to the launch site. Thanks for educating me on this project!
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  Craig Elder May 7, 2016 at 11:01pm

  @Mark : lots of gliders and rocket planes too.

  Check out Project Lohan http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/lohan/

  (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator)

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/lohan_summary_vid/

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/vulture_2_photos/

  It's pretty cool

  3D printed            - Check

  Rocket powered - Check

  ArduPlane           - Check

  Supersonic          - Check 
• Mark peiffer May 7, 2016 at 7:52pm

  I was wondering if anyone has worked on, or knows someone who has, developed a rocket glider or any type of glider application with arduplane.
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  Richard Kennedy April 5, 2016 at 3:54am

  @MarioSpeedwagon

  I wish there was more in that story about the nuts and bolts of the flight system. It looks very well designed and thought out. I'd say that plane probably has a far superior range of a multi rotor but it's interesting ,and perhaps telling, they didn't share any footage of how they retrieve the plane. That is one advantage of a multi rotor you need basically zero ground clearance for take of and retrieval. Like anything I guess it's hard to have your cake and eat it too.