Last week I wrote about the upcoming flight controller XRacer v1 by Nick Arsov and Phillip Kocmoud. Last night Philip opened the pre-order page on his webstore. The price will be 99$, which is great compared to all other Pixhawk clones. Deliveries are expected to be in December, so it should be a great Christmas
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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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Nick Arsov, the developer of the AUAV-X2 autopilot, presented some time ago his new current and voltage sensor – the ACSP3. As I needed a power distribution board for my new SG Acro v1.1 quadcopter, I decided to give it a try. Details: Max Input Voltage (Vin) = 42V; So possibility of use a 10S
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If you want to connect your ArduCopter flight controller with DroidPlanner, you can use either a Bluetooth or a 433MHz Telemetry module. By using Bluetooth, you don’t need to attach a module to your smartphone. But the range is not so good, as on 433Mhz. So how to get the best range without attaching modules
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On Pixhawk and all other flight controllers based on PX4, like HKPilot32 or AUAV-X2, you should press the safety switch button before arming. This is a safety feature and its recommended to be enabled. If you don’t need this feature, you can disable the safety switch. Open Mission Planner, connect the Pixhawk and go to
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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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