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question about adjusting Ardupilot

Started this discussion. Last reply by Tom in ON Jul 9, 2009. 8 Replies 0 Likes

how to trigger a servo movement through software once a way point is reached.

Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Anderson May 24, 2009. 1 Reply 0 Likes

how do i trigger a digital camera when it arrives at a waypoint?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas J Coyle III May 26, 2009. 5 Replies 0 Likes

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Tom in ON replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

Brent, Here is a program Jordi wrote for sensor testing, this is what I used to check the XY sensors (sensortest). Also, here are other programs for servo and IR sensor testing. Search in the setup blogs for ArduPilot.

Jul 9, 2009

Brent West replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

Hi Tom, That sounds like a good idea for now. Curious, how were you able to read the values (505-530) of your sensors, were you able to read the numbers live as you were testing them? Brent

Jul 9, 2009

Tom in ON replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

Brent, I am by no means an expert at this, still building mine. As far as the Z sensor, you can select in the header file of 2.2.3 version that you do not have one. That should take care of that, but you must follow different calibration…

Jul 8, 2009

Brent West replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

Hi Tom, Thank you for responding. I’m not sure how you got the numbers that you’re talking about. You see, I don’t have my sensors yet. I was getting some bad erratic movements from the servos when I switched to auto mode. And…

Jul 7, 2009

Tom in ON replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

I don't have exact numbers, but if you look at the code, I think the software is looking for 511 for each sensor on a scale of 1024. At least for the XY. That's if the sensors are perfectly level, etc. However, the reason you claibrate…

Jul 7, 2009

Brent West replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

What sort of signal are the XYZ censors driving into the shield? The censors now are not becoming available until mid August. I’m wondering if I can fake their inputs so that I can go on to testing the navigation part of the autopilot.

Jul 7, 2009

Neal Kelley replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'question about adjusting Ardupilot'

woooooooooooooooow no responders.. ?

May 29, 2009

question about adjusting Ardupilot

I tired my freshly built Ardu pilot today. I turned on my flight stablizor and then the ardupilot. When turned on the Ardu pilot in way point mode the plane immediatle went in to a turn and dive. Fearing for the life of my airplane I quickly turned the Ardu pilot off and recovered. After thinking about I few question came to mind. It might be have some thing to do with the altitudes in the way points. I have it set to 100 meters.. and I guess my question is this.. is the altitude in the ardu…See More

Discussion posted by Neal Kelley May 26, 2009

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Thomas J Coyle III replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'how do i trigger a digital camera when it arrives at a waypoint?'

Neal, 1) Ditch the .47 and go to an electric of equivalent power. 2) Build an elastic camera suspension to help isolate the camera from the motor induced fuse vibrations. Regards, TCIII

May 26, 2009

Neal Kelley replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'how do i trigger a digital camera when it arrives at a waypoint?'

I flew today.. and took a few photos from my air craft. The problem I now have is that there is alot of vibration effecting the photo.. I am using a nitro engine..( tower .47 ) engine.. I am using a kodak C913 ( 9.3 MP camera ). Any Ideas on how to…

May 26, 2009

Chris Anderson replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'how to trigger a servo movement through software once a way point is reached.'

Well, it is going to require a bit of programming, I'm afraid. In the Servo tab, you'd need to add one more servo on a spare digital pin, copying everything that's been done for the other servors. The trigger would be in the…

May 24, 2009

how to trigger a servo movement through software once a way point is reached.

Forgive me if i broke a rule.. but i have a questions that kind of spills over into programming. So I will post it here. I have successfully attached a micro servo to a digital camera. I have the micro servo plugged into the retract gear port of my receiver. I can manually trigger it the camera by toggling the retract button on my remote control, there by taking a picture. What I want to do is have the ArduPilot control that when it arrives at a way point. I am not a programmer and need some…See More

Discussion posted by Neal Kelley May 24, 2009

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Neal Kelley replied to wayne garris's discussion 'how to hack a camera to allow remote triggering'

yeah.. I got zapped a few times....

May 22, 2009

Neal Kelley replied to wayne garris's discussion 'how to hack a camera to allow remote triggering'

I used a refurbished Kodak C913 ( 9.3 megapixel camera. ).. after figuring out the the button to trigger the flash. .i soldered wire to it. the cool part is that I got a small micro switch and attached a micro servo to it.. and glued it all…

May 22, 2009

Neal Kelley replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'how do i trigger a digital camera when it arrives at a waypoint?'

Thanks for the information. What I did was use a microservo and a Micro switch soldered to the wires coming from the camera button.. Works very good... I have the servor plugged into the retract plug on the reciever. So when ever I hit the retract…

May 22, 2009

Chris Anderson replied to Neal Kelley's discussion 'how do i trigger a digital camera when it arrives at a waypoint?'

You can use a Picoswitch and just tell the code to output PWM on a spare digital pin when it hits waypoints. Or, perhaps you don't even need the switch. Depending on the camera's internal voltage, you might just be able to wire it straight…

May 21, 2009