Arducopter Alware Gimbal test
Arducopter firm 2.5.5 stock camera gimbal roll pitch setup Gimbal Alware advanced 3-axis 9gr digital nexus roll servo 12 gr analog HK pitch servo
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Checking mediatek's APM 2.0 On board GPS health
Started this discussion. Last reply by James Magos May 12. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Hello everyone, All of you having an older APM, should know how to test, or update the firmware of your uBlox, …Continue
No power from RC Pins
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jeb Bailey Jan 19. 14 Replies 0 Likes
hi to all, After several succesfull flights with my Arduplane (v2.26) i have problem.when i plug my 3s lipo to esc, only a red led(PWR) lights up on ATMEGA 2560 board. When i plug the usb everything…Continue
mission planner request
Started Nov 18, 2011 0 Replies 0 Likes
hi Michael. most of us have the latest firmware updates (even faster than deposit) thanks to mission planner, Also its a matter o seconds to upload a new firm. could you please add a camera ready…Continue
Help needed, with the new way adding camera stabilization
Started this discussion. Last reply by James Magos Oct 16, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Good morning to all, i presented my fixed wing platform to this blog …Continue
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James Magos replied to Richard's discussion First APM2 Build for Aerial Photography to create DEM,DSM for GIS purposes - Ursus Airframe"OH!! Rich! that realy sucks, it was a nasty dive. i was afraid from the beginning for the extra weight and wooden joiners.
I hope, all your equip. is unharmed, if yes its a proof that ursus fuse design and foam protects very well the…"
Martin Poller commented on James Magos's video
First Arducopter flight
"It's a great feeling when it lifts off for the first time, yours looks rock steady James, I've got a Jdrones quad with APM1, have tried 2.5.3, now got 2.5.4 onboard but not yet tried it, after seeing your success might just upload 2.5.5…"
James Magos posted a videoFirst Arducopter flight
DJi Flame wheel 450 ARF kit with Ardupilot Mega (APM 1), Arducopter 2.5.5 stock PID's, Sonar, xbee telemetry. Frame kit & Batteries sponsored by www.nemhobby...
James Magos replied to Richard's discussion First APM2 Build for Aerial Photography to create DEM,DSM for GIS purposes - Ursus Airframe"Hi Rich, i saw youve done a lot of reading!! , i ll try answer most of your questions:
-20-25 degrees is the optimum for stab, we dont need target tracking with a lot of banging.
- its pixel represents a x,y on the field witch is relevant to the…"
James Magos replied to Richard's discussion First APM2 Build for Aerial Photography to create DEM,DSM for GIS purposes - Ursus Airframe"Hi richard!! Nice 3D! very nice gimbal !
Some info for rectifying:
exif data, will give you a rough estimation of the centre of the image (~7-6m) to start with. fixed altitude and baro logs will give you the…"
James Magos commented on Trent at MyGeekShow's blog post Final "Non-APM" testing of the Shrike"Hi guys, you could try adding a washer or two to the right upper corner and 2-3 on the right bottom skrew of the motor, to ad some down thrust.
Assuming the fuselage is perfectly aligned:
trim up both sides, shows that you propably ironed reflex…"
James Magos replied to Jerry Cresp's discussion Do_Repeat_Servo does work !!! But......"I think, that servo starts to trigger only in Auto mode, when you reach waypoint 1 and repeats for 60 times or when you exit Auto mode, what comes first... "
James Magos replied to Richard's discussion First APM2 Build for Aerial Photography to create DEM,DSM for GIS purposes - Ursus Airframe"" I have tried using planar 1, planar 2, planar 3, rotation, in ICE, planar 1 seems to give the best results, and Automatic seems to select rotational, which doesn't work at all! "
Same for me, for auto.
You can find the hole…"
James Magos replied to Cody O.'s discussion "No GPS" Problem"You can try my solution : http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/issues/detail?id=624&can=6"
James Magos replied to Richard's discussion First APM2 Build for Aerial Photography to create DEM,DSM for GIS purposes - Ursus Airframe"Well done Richard! really ffw progress,
Microsoft ICE, has a mind of its own i think, try using different camera motion settings for stitching, also play with the orientation, some give better results and less oblique (hope i say…"
James Magos replied to Richard's discussion First APM2 Build for Aerial Photography to create DEM,DSM for GIS purposes - Ursus Airframe"Wow!!you are Very very good pilot!! Airfframe also conpenshated the wind, while kept nice penatration-beside the huge dihedral. Iam glad you finally set up your cam, very good photos& synth. Everything now points motor vibes..
Iwould suggest.…"
James Magos replied to Hawhoo's discussion First Skyfun Flight - I need some tuning Help ...."Hi Hawhoo,
check, when APM2 initializes, to keep it steady and in the ballanced position, if plane looks down in initialization, then in stab mode it will try to keep it there. happened to me many many times..
i assume all your banging preflight…"
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- I am a Phd student in environmental & Agriculture studies, from Greece
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- I want to explore the benefits of GIS and UAVs in precision farming
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UAV as Aerial Mapping & GIS platform
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:00am 17 Comments 5 Likes
UAV as Aerial Mapping & GIS platform, build from scratch
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 4:48am 14 Comments 1 Like
Hi everyone,
For years now we use model aircrafts as a hobby or job, and for many years as aerial platforms for aerial photography and mapping. So after many discussions here and reading, I will begin here an UAV application that I think and prepare from student and I hope that now I have the background to make it happen. The reason I post the project here is because I learned all about model aircraft from aeromodelling.gr and everything I know for autopilots from…
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