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White River, Mpumalanga
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We develop custom UAV's in South Africa for everything from general FPV to security and aerial mapping. Our longest flying UAV can stay airborne for around 3.5 hours with a range of 300km. It can carry a payload up to 6kg
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White River, Mpumalanga
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"Does the radio get power when you plug it into your device? If not then that could also be the issue - it needs more power than your device can supply. In that case you may need to use an external powered USB hub.
But that would probably be as much…"
But that would probably be as much…"
"Your device probably doesn't have drivers built in for that radios chip set.
Check which chip set it uses (cp210x, RFD, etc) and make sure your device has those drivers installed."
Check which chip set it uses (cp210x, RFD, etc) and make sure your device has those drivers installed."
"Mine is labelled. The black and red wire coming out the middle of the board is labelled 'To APM' - it can be used to provide power to the APM on the input rail (with jumper JP1 installed) or to servos on the output rail by plugging it in there. Just…"
"Check the PDB (Power Distribution Board). I had a dry joint on mine that caused a crash.
Latest crash - my Y6 just stopped in mid air. Still have to find time to check the logs and figure out what happened.
Upgrade to v3.2 - new features like…"
Latest crash - my Y6 just stopped in mid air. Still have to find time to check the logs and figure out what happened.
Upgrade to v3.2 - new features like…"
"I had another prop disintegrate during flight with my Y6 yesterday. Didn't even notice that half the prop was missing until I flew nearby and heard the Y6 sounding a bit rough. Only saw after landing that half the prop was missing.
It seems that…"
It seems that…"
"I was just out flying my Y6 and it just happened to me... I lost the top front left prop. The Y6 did a full loop and managed to recover. I was able to bring it back to land in stabilize mode.
Looks like a bad moulding on the prop. I was able to find…"
Looks like a bad moulding on the prop. I was able to find…"
"I fixed it by removing ~/apmplanner2 directory."
"I tried starting apmplanner2 as root and the memory usage is only 50MB."
I recently installed and got to work APM Planner 2.0.14 on OpenSuSE 13.1.When I start apmplanner2 me PC bogs down for about 2 minutes after the initial APM Planner splash screen is shown. It indicates 'Starting User Interface'The terminal window at…
"Yes. That's all the log that was recorded.
The copter basically hovered for about a minute, then it seemed like there was no control or stabilisation and it tilted forward and right. Motors were still spinning and it tipped over when it hit the…"
The copter basically hovered for about a minute, then it seemed like there was no control or stabilisation and it tilted forward and right. Motors were still spinning and it tipped over when it hit the…"
"Anyone had similar issues with AC 3.1 builds?"
Yesterday I was test flying a quadcopter with an APM 2.5 board. All seemed well and just as I was about to start flying a circuit, the quad listed to the right front slowly and it seemed like I had no control. It naturally flipped upside down just…
"Hi Robert
Not the pixhawk but the original from https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/electronics/start"
Not the pixhawk but the original from https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/electronics/start"
"Hi Robert
Have you looked at the px4?"
Have you looked at the px4?"
"Hi
1) To go higher, the best thing would be better antennas.Adding more power will introduce more issues with interference. The secret to good wireless signal is well paired antennas and as low power as you can get away with. We have a wireless…"
1) To go higher, the best thing would be better antennas.Adding more power will introduce more issues with interference. The secret to good wireless signal is well paired antennas and as low power as you can get away with. We have a wireless…"
