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  Ravi October 17, 2011 at 6:02am

  hi friends, can anyone tell me when is the ardupilot board would be available with 96 Mhz ARM processor. keenly awaiting the arduino board with ARM processor.
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  jim C. August 23, 2011 at 1:16pm

  Hi all, I was using APM firmware AC 2039  had success flying my QUAD. but now I want to urge the APM in my skywalker. plane load the 2.22 firmware to configure all the sensors and radio as usual and it works well. but when I disconnect the battery and reconnect the battery you lose all the configuration of sensors, radio (Tx) and ESC.

  know why can this be happening?

  some consideration needed to change ACM APM?

  thanks
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  Ravi August 7, 2011 at 5:45am

  i am using Thomas Scherrer 433 MHz LRS system with APM 2.12. The Failsafe programming is very easy and very effective. using the bind button on Tx of LRS you can put the mode switch to RTL in case of loss of signal. i have tried it on the ground many times but am scared to try in air with my skywalker which is flying fantastically accurate with APM2.12. Servos were getting noisy and sluggish with the Scherrer LRS receiver so i changed the servoes to good quality digital ones form Hobbyking. I think a good quality digital servo on rudder has made my way point navigaiton very accurate. Skywalker is very sensitive to CG. Can someone tell me bst CG for skywalker from the leading edge.
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  Denny Rowland July 9, 2011 at 9:54pm

  I would like to make the suggestion that any camera control outputs should support high res. servos with a 1 us dead band. Many imu's don't so if you are running servos in continuous rotation mode (Geared down drive), it won't hold a neutral point. My current stand alone camera IMU has .1 us output. and 20 deg/sec gyro. That gyro would not be a general recommendation because my FC system is set up to cage the IMU to stay within that FSR.  i.e. Super Dupa stable mode!!!!
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  Paul Feely July 9, 2011 at 5:10pm

  @Clyde - other option for manual control on 5-8 is just to plug straight into the receiver :)
• Developer

  Doug Weibel July 9, 2011 at 4:31pm

  @Clyde,

   

  The current APM code has very minimal support for use of channels 5 to 8.  The main reason is that they do not go through the failsafe multiplexor, and so from the beginning we did not do much with them.  There are current development efforts to provide support for both flaps and camera control.  However it could be some weeks before that appears in the code.

   

  If you want to just get manual passthrough you will need to add some code to the set_4_servos function in the attitude.pde file.
• Clyde Fussell July 9, 2011 at 7:17am

  Can someone tell me the procedure to enable channels 5-8 out of the APM? I am not up on codeing as I should be, but am willing to figure it out. My transmitter is sending channels 5-8 to the APM, but no output to the servos from the AOM. I would like to use these channels for flaps and camera control.

  Thanks
• Jaime Curry July 2, 2011 at 7:27am

  I could also help with translation to Spanish, as well as Nosepo.
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  Ritchie June 13, 2011 at 4:03am

  I am currently flying an APM that is carved open, beaten, twisted, crushed and has as many add-ons as I can fit. While I continue to develop my parts, sensors and such I am also attempting to get a quad built (for faster testing really) and a custom airframe that will hold not just the normal home UAV things but something a lot more special.

  I'm enthusiastic builder and programmer but my flying sucks which is why I like APM :D
• Developer

  Mark Colwell June 6, 2011 at 7:01am

  I have integrated Remzibi OSD, Camera Stabilization & Tracking, and added uBlox DIFF_GPS and DOP to library, I have flown original AP with ArduIMU 1.5 (My 1.0 unit upgraded to 2.0 with AirSpeed Sensor & Mag Compass  in a StevensAero SportStick and a Stryker II.  

  I have several platforms in progress for APM 2.

  SkyWalker stretched to 100", The New HK AS-21 with popup motor, 2, Piper L-4 Grasshoppers a 1830mm with Monster Power 32 motor  and 2300mm version with Tacon 160 motor  (both are very big inside the 2300 version is really huge, could carry a WiFi repeater with ease.

  I update each official; release with all my changes, now current with APM 2.12 

  I think it is ready for flight test as I have run it many hours on the bench, last test was 200.000 data points for 48 hrs with no issues.