Are you looking for Pixhawk Mini or Pixhawk 2? Nick, the developer of the AUAV-X2 flight controller, and his partner Phillip Kocmoud have just presented their new XRacer v1.0. It is a Pixhawk derivative in 36 x 36mm form size. I have discussed many of the new features with Nick in the past and will
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Es geht im Folgenden um ein neues Autopilot-Systems, der auf der Grundlage des OpenSource PX4 (oder besser bekannt als Pixhawk) basiert ist. Es handelt sich so zu sagen, um keinen “clone” (wenn man überhaupt bei einem Open Source Projekt um “clone” sprechen kann), sondern um eine Neue Vision des PX4. Die Flugsteuerung wurde von dem
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Last week HobbyKing released the HKPilot32, a flight controller for Multicopters, Planes and Rovers. It is based on the open source project PX4. I ordered mine and today I received my package from HobbyKing. Here are some photos of this Pixhawk “clone” and my first impressions of the flight controller. On the label you can
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I’m using my MultiWii and MegaPirate AIO (Crius clone) board since few months and I am happy with it. The problem with this board is, that I can’t get the newest official ArduCopter firmware and I must wait until the developer “SirAlex” port his version (MegaPirateNG). The APM flight controller was not an option, because
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On my old KK2.0 board there was an integrated voltage meter. On the new KK 2.1.5 board there is even a header for the voltage detection. But on my new HK MegaPirate MultiWii AIO there is no voltage sensor integrated at all. It is very important to know the voltage of the battery pack, so
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I already described how to connect ArduCopter based flight controller with Mission Planner over Bluetooth. As I don’t want to take my laptop when flying, but I always have my HTC One X (running Android 4.2.2) with me I tried to connect the ArduCopter (the MegaPirate version of it) with my HTC over Bluetooth. I
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