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  Antonie Kruger January 16, 2014 at 4:05am

  Hi Randy, thanks.
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  Randy January 15, 2014 at 9:43pm

  Antoinie,

       The best way is probably to modify the AP_MotorsQuad.cpp file's so that it adds another motor at the bottom with zero for the roll, pitch and yaw factors.  That alone might do it.  Below is an excerpt of that file with the additional line that I think should be added.

  else{
          // X frame set-up
          add_motor(AP_MOTORS_MOT_1,   45, AP_MOTORS_MATRIX_YAW_FACTOR_CCW, 1);
          add_motor(AP_MOTORS_MOT_2, -135, AP_MOTORS_MATRIX_YAW_FACTOR_CCW, 3);
          add_motor(AP_MOTORS_MOT_3,  -45, AP_MOTORS_MATRIX_YAW_FACTOR_CW,  4);
          add_motor(AP_MOTORS_MOT_4,  135, AP_MOTORS_MATRIX_YAW_FACTOR_CW,  2);
          add_motor_raw(AP_MOTORS_MOT_5, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 5);
      }
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  Antonie Kruger January 15, 2014 at 9:25pm

  Hey Guys, I need some guidance with the following:

  1. I want to take the 4 outputs (Assuming a quad configuration) and get an average. (Mot1.Output + Mot2.Output + Mot3.Output + Mot4.Output)/4

  2. From here I want to send the average value to an available out channel - say channel 5.

  The purpose for this would be to fit a large central lifting motor on the quad taking the average pwm from the 4 balancing (normal) motors.

  I might have to apply a scalefactor / constant to achieve stability. I also foresee a yaw issue considering the torque of a large single main rotor, but will see how to manage that once a prototype is running.

  Thanks for any help.

  Antonie
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  GreenHand December 28, 2013 at 5:51am

  I am a green hand of quadcopter,and I just could not find the main function of the arducoper in the code,forget to say,I do not use the arduino IDE but Source Insight,it can just browse the code but not compile them,where is the main function?many thanks
• Paul Henckel November 16, 2013 at 2:58am

  Hi Shyam

  The source code is all available at https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot
• Paul Henckel November 16, 2013 at 2:57am

  Hi Aku

  I found this to be a good starting site: http://dev.ardupilot.com/
• Aku Duan October 28, 2013 at 8:40am

  hye!can someone tell me what things should i know to programme this ardupilot board?i really interested in this matter. any helps i will really appreciate it.Thank you!
  regards
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  Shyam Balasubramanian October 15, 2013 at 5:08pm

  Hi,

  Can someone share with me the:

  1) Software architecture for Arducopter

  2) Stabilize and Loiter Controller architecture.

  I could not find it on DIYDrones and even googled it, can't find it. Grateful for any help here!
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  Bill Bonney August 12, 2013 at 6:54pm

  @Janelle: Open a forum post as it's much easier to discuss than this 'Wall Feature'

  MAVLink messages are a binary protocol and you can easily create a program to process them without Mission Planner.see http://qgroundcontrol.org/mavlink/start and see http://qgroundcontrol.org/dev/mavlink_onboard_integration_tutorial

  It's just a loop and you can detect each message and then pretty print the output in your own format (or store them and print them out at a set frequency)

  I hope the links help :)
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  Janelle August 12, 2013 at 6:04pm

  @Shyam, Thank You so much, but is it possible to access the Mavlink logs after the flight without using Mission Planner, again Thank you