waypoints – Vic Harkness

Waypoints flight

Published by Vic Harkness on April 21, 2015

Today we did the previously planned waypoints flight, with the telemetry transceivers on. This allowed me to watch the UAV’s progress on my laptop screen,…

Connecting the 433MHz transceivers

Published by Vic Harkness on April 21, 2015

When I attempted to use the 433MHz transceivers last week, they did not seem to connect correctly. They both had solid green lights (going to…

Failed waypoints flight test

Published by Vic Harkness on April 16, 2015

After the issues with the previous waypoints, I decided to go for a rectangular path: This should hopefully be easier to see. I have added…

GPS waypoints that can be set in the field

Published by Vic Harkness on April 16, 2015

I’ve been thinking about the creation of dynamic waypoints. I would like for the user of my project to be able to walk to a…

Waypoints test flight

Published by Vic Harkness on April 14, 2015

Today was the first outdoors test flight since attempting to fix the drifting issue. From this flight, we found that the UAV’s ability to hold…

Playing with SITL and MAVProxy

Published by Vic Harkness on April 14, 2015

Aide memoir for starting up SITL: -Launch Virtualbox software (but do not launch the actual VM. I have found that if you manually launch it…

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Waypoints flight

Connecting the 433MHz transceivers

Failed waypoints flight test

GPS waypoints that can be set in the field

Waypoints test flight

Playing with SITL and MAVProxy