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Arducopter 3.0 RC2 Crash (Suspected Bug with outputs to ESCs)

Installed Arducopter 3.0 RC2, had verification error which I have seen several times without problem, re-calibrated quadcopter and went to the fieldPlugged in battery at the field and the ESCs started beeping an error which translate to "input signal abnormal"I whipped out the laptop connected it via USB to downgrade back to 2.9.1bThen the ESCs stopped the beep error and made the "ready song"I unplugged the APM from USB and from Battery to validate APM was stableConnected battery,…See More
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Richard Boyhan replied to Damien Fitzgerald's discussion arducopter low battery audible alarm in the group ArduCopter User Group
"I use this. It works great. LiPo Buzzer http://www.ebay.com/bhp/lipo-buzzer"
17 minutes ago
Jacob Densmore replied to jesse haley's discussion begginer
"Have a World War Folker fighter sportplane will trade for traxxas."
19 minutes ago

AdminThomas J Coyle III replied to Paul Dowling's discussion shorted 5v to ground on reciever input in the group ArduCopter User Group
"@Paul, Try here: http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/apm2-0-5v-vcc-schematic Regards, TCIII"
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Jacob Densmore replied to Eric Martin's discussion Newbie - possibilities of Drones/Planes ?
"Legally Line of sight otherwise a mile (depending on type) Yes (dependent on setup) YES defiantly can! multi thousand (how much cargo, what type?) and yes depending on…"
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AdminThomas J Coyle III replied to Dave Skala's discussion PROTOTYPE UAV's for sale soon!!
"@Jacob, If you take a look at anel's last post in this discussion, it is dated 11/3/2012 which is about 7 months ago. Angel has not posted to this Forum since 11/3/2012 and is probably long gone. I will keep an eye open for angle's return…"
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Developerleonardthall commented on Roberto Navoni's blog post VR GIMBAL ( Board Control and IMU ): We are ready for developer.
"Sorry Stephane, but I disagree with you on this. I think that one imu reference on each end of the gimbal will be quiet sufficient. We may even be able to get away with quiet a low update rate from the flight controller side. Without the additional…"
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Kim Skatun commented on SkyrisFX's blog post Building a unique GoPro Gimbal for the 3DR Hexa - Part 2 (video below)
"Have you done any calculations of weight savings by converting it to G10? I would expect to be minimal. Where is it possible to get brushless gimbals motors? "
31 minutes ago
Jacob Densmore replied to Dave Skala's discussion PROTOTYPE UAV's for sale soon!!
"Please stop spamming. I see you posted this allover the website, I thing once is enough. Thanks"
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Paul Dowling added a discussion to the group ArduCopter User Group
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shorted 5v to ground on reciever input

Damnand things were going so well!I accidentally shorted the 5v line  and the ground on the apm2.0 on the ppm input esc's still seem to work ( but dont arm)reciever seems to workbut the apm wont arm.anyone wish to provide me with possibilities before I start randomly digging?BTW I can not seem to locate a schematic in pdf format, where would I look?thnx in advancePaulSee More
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DeveloperR_Lefebvre commented on trappy's blog post Costa Concordia
"Huh... this is kinda neat but... turns out they were actually arrested shortly after this was filmed.  I guess they were let go afterwards. "
44 minutes ago

DeveloperR_Lefebvre commented on Joshua Ott's blog post Thirty Days (#13): Y6 in-flight motor failure tests
"Jared, anecdotal evidence from others confirms your theory. Joshua: This is really good flight performance with Y6.  Nice work guys.  I'm curious to see a test of two things: Performance with payload. Performance of a…"
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Lloyd Breckenridge replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released
"Flew my X8 with the 2.73 firmware yesterday. This navigation control is excellent. The aircraft now loiters in a perfect circle with the default settings whereas with the prior version it loitered in a square. It hits every way point exactly and the…"
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Mehmet Sinan DEMIRAT added a discussion to the group Turkish Ardu Group
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Apm2 - Güç Sorunu

Merhaba Arkadaşlar,Apm2 ile uğraşan Türk arkadaşların olması beni mutlu etti gerçekten. Ben de kendi model uçağımda APM2  kullanmak üzere bir ardupilot edindim. fakat output'tan ESC den çıkan BEC (5.5V)  gerilimi verdiğimde kart çalışmıyor bunun sebebi nedir sizce? USB den bağladığımda çalışıyor. Inputtan taktığında çalışıyor ama output tan güç veremedim. Bu durumla karşılaşan oldu mu hiç ???See More
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Daniel Estes replied to Damien Fitzgerald's discussion arducopter low battery audible alarm in the group ArduCopter User Group
"Thanks for the conformation.  I am using a low battery alarm and that is what went off. I shut the low voltage warning (set to RTL) off in Mission Planner.  I should be okay now. Thanks for the replies."
1 hour ago

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Arducopter 3.0 RC2 Crash (Suspected Bug with outputs to ESCs)

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begginer

Started by jesse haley in Unassigned category. Last reply by Jacob Densmore 19 minutes ago. 1 Reply

Newbie - possibilities of Drones/Planes ?

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PROTOTYPE UAV's for sale soon!!

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ArduPlane 2.73 released

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Servos stuck - not responding

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3d robotics apm power module

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Wired APM 2.5 behavior. Need some help!

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Servo limits (maximum throw) is not working in stabilize, fbw and other modes

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Reboot? Or some other power problem.

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ArduPilot Mega 2.x support Hunter-Vtail frame ??

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Brown Out after adding Airspeed sensor

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Remote status LEDs

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Adding extra functions to MinimOSD

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This is the home for everything about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Use the tabs and drop-down menus above to navigate the site. (About us/Site rules)

This community created the Arduino-based ArduPilot, the world's first universal autopilot (planes, multicopters of all sorts and ground rovers). The APM 2.5 autopilot hardware runs a variety of powerful free UAV software systems, including:

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Hybrid Penta Copter

Posted by OG on May 19, 2013 at 6:15am 8 Comments

This is a very interesting Hindered multi copter. I was thinking of this same concept using a weed waker motor on a large quad & kk board. But the guys in south Asia have beaten me to it. well it a nice job in any…

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3 axis Camera Gimble connections.

Posted by Jared Reabow on May 19, 2013 at 12:30am 11 Comments

NEW APM 2.5 Pin out and Wire Diagram And Camera Gimble explanation

Hey guys i recently got the APM 2.5, when looking at the pins, I saw A0 - A11 Pins werent being used and i did not know what they were for so i was googling and found a PDF that stated



A0- Sonar/ Ultrasonic A1- Voltage Sensor – Attopilot

A2-Current Sensor – Attopilot

A3- Optical Flow…

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Mapping Mission Ride Along

Posted by Matt Gunn on May 18, 2013 at 10:00pm 16 Comments

Here's my 1st mapping test flight with a Skyhunter twin-boom pusher. Im running Arduplane 2.73. Mapping camera is a Canon s95 running an intervalometer script via chdk. Its suspended from a single axis gimbal that keeps the camera pointing down regardless of aircraft bank angle. Video shot from a GoPro 3 Black Edition.

It took 120 photos during the 10 minute…

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Mechanical Hands From A MakerBot: The Magic Of Robohand (From Makerbot blog news)

Posted by Roberto Navoni on May 18, 2013 at 2:37pm 9 Comments

 

When Richard Van As, a master carpenter in Johannesburg, South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers, it wasn’t just for fun. He’d lost four of the fingers on his right hand in an unfortunate work accident. For a tradesman like Rich, having a disabled hand is a big professional…

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US House Crime/Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on domestic use of drones

Posted by Kyle Derkacz on May 18, 2013 at 2:30am 1 Comment

Domestic Use of Drones

...left with a cliffhanger: are you allowed to shoot down a drone if it's over your "airspace" (very end of the…

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Thirty Days (#13): Y6 in-flight motor failure tests

Posted by Joshua Ott on May 17, 2013 at 6:00pm 14 Comments

Testing out how the new Y6 responds to an in-flight motor failure. Not bad!


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VR GIMBAL ( Board Control and IMU ): We are ready for developer.

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FPV Flying with 3DR Quad and NAZA

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Costa Concordia

Posted by trappy on May 17, 2013 at 10:38am 6 Comments

We went and filmed the repair works of the stranded Costa Concordia.

Building a unique GoPro Gimbal for the 3DR Hexa - Part 2 (video below)

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Germany Scuttles UAV Program, According To Reports

Germany Scuttles UAV Program, According To Reports

Agence France Press is reporting that Germany has cancelled a planned ‘Euro Hawk’ UAV programme because it believes European authorities will not certify them to fly in civilian airspace. More from AFP: Germany had “no hope” of seeing the unmanned aircraft, part of a programme that would have cost more than one billion euros ($1.3 billion), approved for use, said the source speaking on condition of anonymity. The European Aviation Safety Agency has said it would only certify the drones to fly over unpopulated areas because of a lack of an anti-collision system to protect airliners, according to German press reports. “The equipment is not ready for approval without immense expenditure,” the source added. Bookmark It Hide Sites

Israel is world’s largest exporter of drones, study finds

Israel is world's largest exporter of drones, study finds

By Gili Cohen Israel is the world’s largest exporter of unmanned aircraft, in terms of the number of systems sold, a study has found. Over the last eight years Israel has exported $4.6 billion worth of unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a study by the business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. UAVs, or drones, constitute nearly 10 percent of Israel’s total military exports. Unmanned equipment exports are a relatively volatile market, the report shows. Israel had $150 million in UAV exports in 2008, a figure which increased substantially in 2009 to $650 million. Exports of the small surveillance planes peaked in 2010, a record year for drone sales, to $979 million. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-is-world-s-largest-exporter-of-drones-study-finds.premium-1.524771 Bookmark It Hide Sites

Michael Hutt program manager USGS to speak at sUSBexpo

Michael Hutt program manager USGS to speak at sUSBexpo

Michael Hutt will share insights from the USGS and their unmanned aircraft operations at the Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo July 25th – 26th at the TechShop San Francisco The USGS National UAS Project Office at the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center (GECSC) is located in Denver CO, and is an operational component of the Climate and Land Use Change Land Remote Sensing Program. It was established on May 8, 2008 based on the successful completion of an Emerging Technology Investigation into the potential use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to benefit the DOI and USGS missions. http://susbexpo.com/ Bookmark It Hide Sites

Texas Senate approves bill to curtail drone photography

Texas Senate approves bill to curtail drone photography

Remember the River of Blood story, it went viral. Seems the Texa’s senate would prefer to sweep what Texan businesses get up to under the carpet. If this act makes it all the way through and you let this sort of images out into the wild you will be facing the law. It should not have taken the images to uncover the massive pollution that was occurring.  Texas should know the condition of its rivers. I would be ashamed to live in a place that seems to care so little for its environment. Good news though for other states bidding to host one of the FAA Test sites, Texas Privacy Act (HB 912) could be a royal PIA for people testing. Use of drones to capture photographs and video images on private property without permission of the owner would be prohibited under a bill the Senate passed Friday. Supporters of the ban say it is needed because of the increasing incidence of indiscriminate surveillance by unmanned drones. The Senate amended the bill, already passed by the House, to exempt unmanned vehicles used by police and law enforcement officers and to protect citizens who use a cellphone or other recording device to film [...]

Congress gets mixed advice on drone laws

Congress gets mixed advice on drone laws

  AP WASHINGTON – The growing use of unmanned surveillance “eyes in the sky” aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it. A future with domestic drones may be inevitable. While civilian drone use is currently limited to government agencies and some public universities, a law passed by Congress last year requires the Federal Aviation Administration to allow widespread drone flights in the United States by 2015. According to FAA estimates, as many as 7,500 civilian drones could be in use within five years. “Technology is great — as long as it’s used the right and proper way,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Friday on issues surrounding drones — which can be as small as a bird and as large as a plane. http://www.pressherald.com/news/nationworld/congress-gets-mixed-advice-on-drone-laws_2013-05-18.html Bookmark It Hide Sites

UAV news from Flight Global

Maritime Heron UAV supports European airspace trial

Europe has advanced a project to prove the feasibility of using satellite communications to enable UAS operations in non-segregated airspace ...

Brazilian navy begins UAS evaluation

The Brazilian navy has begun to evaluate two Israeli-made unmanned air systems for maritime surveillance missions ...

Indian air force to launch micro UAS evaluation

The Indian air force is to evaluate several micro unmanned air systems from around 10 companies in early May ...

VIDEO: Eurocopter demonstrates unmanned EC145

Eurocopter has unveiled an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV), based on its EC145 light twin, which has been in development since September 2011.

Israeli F-16 downs another Hezbollah UAV

An Israeli air force Lockheed Martin F-16 has shot down an unmanned air vehicle launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah militants ...

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