Questions tagged [homemade-drone]
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My first drone broke 2 esp32
i'm trying to build my first drone. i have already built some drones using flight control, pixhawk and other stuffs. But i really enjoyed the idea to build a lighter, cheaper and smaller one, all from ...
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Claw using brushed ESC in conjunction with brushless ESC on Kakute H7
For a challenge, my club and I have been building a drone with a claw on the bottom. We found a good lightweight claw, but it uses an N20 Geared brushed motor. We have a brushed motor ESC(Quicrun 1625 ...
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How to calc the best center of gravity for quadcopters?
Usually it is recommended to balance the quadcopter drone in order to have the center of gravity in the center of the drone body, but this choice seems with the assumption the drone thrust is just ...
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Licensed required for drop testing waterrockets in Europe?
I am currently working on a waterrocket which has landing legs and a few other features that I wanted to test before launching it. Therefore I was thinking about getting an A2 license for drones that ...
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Receiver and transmitter issue
I am trying to build a drone from scratch. I purchased Fly Sky FS-CT6B 6 transmitter. but unfortunately the receiver is not supporting PPM communication. I am using pixhawk 2.4 as flight controller.
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What is the problem with my drone?
I am a newbie regarding drones. I created a drone using the following tutorial - drone link
The tutorial is about making a wall climbing drone but I ignored the climbing part of the drone. The drone ...
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Why are my motors not spinning at the same time although I calibrated them?
I'm currently working on a DIY project to make my own homemade Arduino based quadcopter drone. I have built the structure and have written the program. The drone consists of 1400KV motors, SimonK 30A ...
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Tricopter _SIMUNET_ARDUPILOT_MISSIONPLANNER
I am working on a tricopter with SIMUNET (Ardupilot) and Mission planner and with the following default parameters. Still it is not succeeded. Please lend your advise if something is missing out.
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Eachine ts215 motors get hot
I bought a Eachine Wizard TS215 5' freestyle drone back in 2020 (now discontinued) that flew perfectly when I bought it. The PID tunning was already set from the factory and everything was running ...
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Yaw angle estimation for quadcopters
I have built a quadcopter from scratch and I am at the stage of optimizing the roll, pitch, yaw angles estimation. To this end, I have implemented both Madgwick and Mahony AHRS filter and at the ...
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Seeking Guidance on Camera Selection and Image Transfer for Drone-based Insulator Monitoring Project
We're working on a final year project involving a drone that flies to towers, captures images of insulators, and sends them for processing on a computer. We've assembled the drone, and now our main ...
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ESC Powerbehavior when throttling up or down
for my flight control system I want to track my motor rpm (more or less to feed orientation estimation with thrust and moments).
I wrote a simple class based on following formula
$$ \dot \omega = \...
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Which DC motors (or others) are good enough for my multi-function drone?
I am planning to make own drone which flies and dives (Some servo motors used to change between fly and dive-mode). But is a normal DC motor or a micro motor good enough (It flies and dives under tens ...
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I'm building small solid rocket motors, and I'm having difficulty developing sufficient power [closed]
I'm building these motors from a combination of directions from WikiHow and the King of Random... for fuel, I'm using Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) and Sugar, in a ratio of 2:1 by mass. The casing is built ...
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Why is my drone unable to fly?
I have made a drone using Arduino on my own, but unfortunately, it is unable to fly. What I mean by that is that the motors are working perfectly fine, but even after going above 70%, my drone is ...
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