This time I've take-off in manual mode and then switched to auto. The plane starts to fly as programmed, but wind slide it few meters away from the point. That time observers starts to panic and I (never do that again) switched to manual to turn plane back to me... That was the biggest mistake! I've should wait a bit more... Luckily, nothing was broken - plane disassembled itself into 3 pieces. 5 minutes to take it together without any glue and back to the sky!

Here is a…

Right now I'm far away from home, but I've found some extra time to work on my code for APM. But how am I going to test it without APM? Here is the video which shows a successful run of modified APM code on virtual APM =)

"\n" is not working good on this emulator.

Here is what you need:

Arduino IDE  …

Here is another thing that I did - 9) CLI – message when bad command entered - Add a message so users know when they have entered an invalid command.

So instead of just swallowing wrong commands it will be something like this:

ArduPlane V2.24] blah-blah-blah

Unknown command! Please try again.



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Hi there!

I've always wanted to take part in arduplane development, so I finally have chance to do it =)

Here you can find info on how to do the same http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-contribute-to-a-diy-drones-project-start-with-something-sm

I have chosen this one -

8) Minimum altitude…