Tree Feeder
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Hello!
The purpose of this thread is to document my (mis)adventures in ArduPilot experimentation.
I have recently been researching ArduPilot with the eventual goal to make a fully autonomous long range plane. I made a plane from the tail of a simple soarer, a 2m fb wing, and a canard pod on the front. I don't have any good pictures of it, besides one of it 70ft up in a tree. That's my profile picture. Soooo... yeah. It also had my only working receiver, a FT aura, and my only power pack B. It has been up there for a little over a week. The wing has disappeared, but the fuselage is still up there with my electronics. The problem was that I had forgotten to turn off stabilization from launch assist. I had also forgotten to change the max bank angle in the aura config. That, with some unexpected wind, caused a sudden landing 70ft in a tree.
Anyway, enough about that plane. I have a mini explorer that should be able to work for experimentation purposes. My plan is to use a speedybee f405 wing along with my flysky system controlling it through sbus. I also have openi6x on my fsi6x, so I can use the telemetry data over ibus to run the inav screen (hopefully). For the main telemetry I am planning on using two esp32s that I own running DroneBridge along with a Chromebook running Ubuntu (an adventure in itself) and qgroundcontrol as my ground station. The plan is to use my ft ez id as the gps, along with a external compass if I need it. I don't think that I will need anything else for a basic setup. I will post updates about the one I got stuck in a tree if it falls out.
Tree Feeder
The purpose of this thread is to document my (mis)adventures in ArduPilot experimentation.
I have recently been researching ArduPilot with the eventual goal to make a fully autonomous long range plane. I made a plane from the tail of a simple soarer, a 2m fb wing, and a canard pod on the front. I don't have any good pictures of it, besides one of it 70ft up in a tree. That's my profile picture. Soooo... yeah. It also had my only working receiver, a FT aura, and my only power pack B. It has been up there for a little over a week. The wing has disappeared, but the fuselage is still up there with my electronics. The problem was that I had forgotten to turn off stabilization from launch assist. I had also forgotten to change the max bank angle in the aura config. That, with some unexpected wind, caused a sudden landing 70ft in a tree.
Anyway, enough about that plane. I have a mini explorer that should be able to work for experimentation purposes. My plan is to use a speedybee f405 wing along with my flysky system controlling it through sbus. I also have openi6x on my fsi6x, so I can use the telemetry data over ibus to run the inav screen (hopefully). For the main telemetry I am planning on using two esp32s that I own running DroneBridge along with a Chromebook running Ubuntu (an adventure in itself) and qgroundcontrol as my ground station. The plan is to use my ft ez id as the gps, along with a external compass if I need it. I don't think that I will need anything else for a basic setup. I will post updates about the one I got stuck in a tree if it falls out.
Tree Feeder
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