Gender
Male
About
Location
La Glace Alberta
About Me:
farmer getting close to retirement. Enjoying helicopters, and recently bought Hexa from 3DRobotics.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I wanted a UAV capable of doing waypoint video of my fields.
Hometown:
La Glace, Alberta
Activity Feed
"I tried everything disconnected every which way I could think of. My board is failed for whatever reason haven't replaced it yet. waiting to see if Pixhalk works successfully, then I might buy that."
"Thanks,I guess I now will be confident enough to order Pixhalk and hopefully get my hex back in the air."
"happy sailing, I'll be busy for a month so I'll have to remember to look for update."
"If you find the problem/solution please post. I have yet to replace my APM 2.5 because I don't want to have same thing with pix hawk."
"no, my board is no good , haven't replaced it yet."
"3DR informed me my CI is damaged. No explanation why but I guess s%$# happens.
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Is there anyone interested in testing and or repair these boards? I realize it would be hard to make it profitable, but sometimes curiosity wins out. For me if I could find someone in Canada that would be willing to check,test my board. I'm thinking…
"Thats what I've checked several times. as I've read through that thread, but mine gives exactly 3.3.
I was following another thread "Is my 2.5 bricked" and was wondering if reflashing firmware too many times can cause problems? When you do this does…"
I was following another thread "Is my 2.5 bricked" and was wondering if reflashing firmware too many times can cause problems? When you do this does…"
"Boy this sounds like the same as mine. I wound up reflashing firmware many times trying to update and configure, and not being sure of what I was doing,… Is this the cause of bricking the APM? If Dave could answer on this I would appreciate as he…"
"Can anyone help me? Is this a mission planner problem, or an APM2.5, or firmware, or computer?
redid the firmware update again now it hangs on RC6. not sure what I should do next.
Read on one discussion that the automatic update to mission planner…"
redid the firmware update again now it hangs on RC6. not sure what I should do next.
Read on one discussion that the automatic update to mission planner…"
Now when I try to connect it hangs on RC 10 TRIM. I just updated to latest MP then tried to connect and it hung on RC 8. When I cancelled there was an update to Arducopter 3.1.1. So I updated that and was successful, then when I try to connect to MP…
"When I click initial setup I get: FIRMWARE
WIZARD
3DR RADIO
ANTENAE TRACKER
thats all no mandatory hardware. Is…"
WIZARD
3DR RADIO
ANTENAE TRACKER
thats all no mandatory hardware. Is…"
When did the setup wizard become the only option for first time setup? I have the latest version of MP and am running arducopter 3.1 on my 3DR hex.I am wondering once you start the setup wizard does it wipe all previous setting off the APM?So it…
Just updated to 3.1 on my hexa .and am wondering if I should go through complete setup, like radio,ESC calibration, say starting from beginning or just do the things mentioned in the release. Reason I'm asking is I'm unclear on what all gets…
I have downloaded ppm update but when I try to update it says "Invalid hex file syntax" What am I doing wrong. Windows 7 . Tried twice on download and yes I did delete first one before downloading second.I clicked save ,should I have clicked run…
"Thanks Marcin. Don't know if I can take a clear enough picture. I got a new cable from 3DR because they said my first one was wrong.
telem port radio OSD
red 5v …"
telem port radio OSD
red 5v …"
