Category: Drone

Drone Flight #6

Flight #6 is been the highest flight I’ve done yet. My hands were shaking from the cold or the fear, “don’t lose this one!”. Also those LEDs turn RED as the A23 battery voltage current drops. I might go with single color LEDs (not the RGB kind) so they stay the same color.

For the next flight, I’ll want to aim towards the mountains.

Drone 2

[Full Drone Part List]

[$13.99 F450 Frame]

Landing Gear: [$7.75 black] [$6.99 white]

[$12.98 Zip Ties]

4 X Motors/ESCs: [$5.83 each] or [$9.96 each]

[$7.99 for 20 X ESC Bullet Connectors]

Flight Controller: [$127.98 Pixhawk]

[$7.95 Better GPS bracket]

Receiver: [iA6B Receiver] or [Transmitter/Receiver]

Battery: [$91.70 Venom 5000 mah]

Camera: [$70 GoPro HERO3]

LEDs: [$10.49 for 4 X RGB Leds]

LED Power: [$4.19 for 2 X 12V A23 Batteries]

Setup:

Tutorial: [Attach ESC wires]

Tutorial: [Modify ESC wires]

Tutorial: [Connect ESCs to power distribution board]

Tutorial: [Setup Battery Connection]

Tutorial: [Pixhawk Wiring]

Pixhawk Drone arming

[Hobbypower Pixhawk PX4 Flight Controller]

[HKPilot32 Flight Controller] [products]

[Logging blocking arming]

[PreArm: Logging failed]

Arming is failing and I’m down to these messages.

PreArm: Logging failed
Frame: QUAD
fmuv2 002A0037 3337510B 32343735
ChibiOS: ff603d11
ArduCopter V3.6.3 (63eb66fe)
PreArm: Logging failed
u-blox 1 HW: 00080000 SW: ROM CORE 3.01 (107888)
PreArm: Logging failed
PreArm: Hardware safety switch
EKF2 IMU1 tilt alignment complete
EKF2 IMU0 tilt alignment complete
EKF2 IMU1 initial yaw alignment complete
EKF2 IMU0 initial yaw alignment complete
GPS 1: detected as u-blox at 115200 baud
Frame: QUAD
fmuv2 002A0037 3337510B 32343735
ChibiOS: ff603d11
ArduCopter V3.6.3 (63eb66fe)
Barometer calibration complete
Initialising APM

There’s an arm check for logging that had to be disabled. Now arming works.