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Arduplane Throttle control

Hi All,

My new craft is about to take its maden voyage and all looks great, however I have a small problem I cant quite sort out.

I am running the standard release of arduplane. My craft is only running in manual at present. I am using a joystick throu

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Ardustation Servo Control

Hi All,

I am working on a new vehicle design and for the past 2 days been trying to add direct servo control to modified ardustation 2 code.

It communicates with my ardupilot, heartbeat and parameter streams ok but will not directly change servo states

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xbee 2.4GHz coms mod for reliable ops

Been in the UK I have to use the 2.4GHz xbee pro units rather than the 900MHz you folk in the US have access to. After a fair bit of playing and getting nowhere fast I added some buffering between the xbee and ardupilot. Using a 7404 chip I finally g

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apm2.5 pinout

Hi all,

I am writing my own code for the ardupilot 2.5 board and have the eagle files and schematics, however I am totally confused as to the pinout. (my vehicle is a bit different from a standard vehicle and connected with my work so I am not allowed

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ArduIMU not getting a fix

Hi all,

After spending more than 2 days trying to get my EM406A work with my ArduIMU (v1) in binary a finally gave up.

I reset it all as an NMEA gps at 38400 baud and made sure I had a working GPS that got a fix using a terminal prograjm. 

I ran the IMU

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ArduIMU v1 instructions & firmware

Hi,

I am trying to fit my original ArduIMU v1 to an ardupilot but can not find any instructions or data online.

All the details I can find are for the new flat model.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction to get some details on installation and A

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ArduPilot new build problem

Hi All,I have just had my first ardupilot delivered with the ground station. I have built the ground station without any problems and programed it with my FTDI cable. I then went on to the arduPilot itself.I have built it without any problems, howeve

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