FPV pilot tries Pixhawk for the first time // Introduction to Ardupilot

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00:00:00 - Why is PixHawk and Ardupilot so interesting
00:01:45 - Unboxing the Holybro Development Kit
00:04:27 - Assembly of the kit
00:07:12 - Install the motors
00:09:21 - Install the power lead
00:11:53 - Mount the GPS antenna
00:12:46 - Install the flight controller
00:18:09 - Connect the ExpressLRS Receiver
00:20:44 - Download QGroundcontrol and Flash Ardupilot
00:23:07 - Set up the Frame Type
00:23:36 - Set up the ExpressLRS Receiver
00:25:10 - Calibrate Sensors
00:26:08 - Set up Flight Modes
00:28:32 - Telemetry radios for wireless configuration
00:29:42 - Test Flight
00:35:53 - Conclusion

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21 ноя 2023

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@joshmellon390 5 месяцев назад

This man just had a genuine experience with Ardupilot lol

@Ammoniummetavanadate 5 месяцев назад

All of my issues with ardupilot came from the clone pixhawk our team lead bought. That and the 3d printed motor mounts...

@tymoteuszkazubski2755 5 месяцев назад

Called I didn't bother following the official setup guide to the T, why my drone is flying like crap (or not flying at all).

@joshmellon390 4 месяца назад

100 likes for the comment, and only 1 or 2 defenders speaks for itself lol. It's not always as easy as following the documentation.

@Ammoniummetavanadate 4 месяца назад

@@joshmellon390 It is definitely a different animal, absolutely not user friendly, lol.

@shanemshort Месяц назад

@@joshmellon390 yeah, I'm a technical person and read technical doco all day and the Ardupilot doco is quite poor

@MCsCreations 5 месяцев назад

Joshua, you definitely should do more things like this. Things like flashing iNav to a quad, perhaps build a rc airplane with iNav, perhaps another with ArduPilot... (And you don't even need a Pixhawk for that, you can flash ArduCopter or ArduPlane to FC from Matek, SpeedyBee and so on.) That's for 2 reasons: to expand your horizons, but also because we love the videos! 😃 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@vedaantsarda7968 5 месяцев назад

Hey man, I'm just wondering how to flash speedybee f405 v3 with ardupilot as you mentioned.

@MCsCreations 5 месяцев назад

@@vedaantsarda7968 I don't remember lots of people mentioning it's possible during reviews, but I don't remember if I've seen anyone doing it indeed... 🤔 Perhaps you could ask Lee, painless 360.

@NukularPower 5 месяцев назад

agree, this is exactly the kind of thing i want to see personally

@N8904V 4 месяца назад

@@NukularPower Me 2.

@prodtz 5 месяцев назад

please do more ardupilot videos. btw, your drone behaved really sluggish in loiter and also in stabilize mode. usually you do a autotune asap. you can do it by enabling PosHold (mix between stabilize and loiter) and activate autotune. its really cool to see the magic happen as it starts twitching around by itself. its a pretty hard time at the beginning when you come from betaflight or inav, but its so damn rewarding. i built a flywoo explorer with ardupilot, really cool to see this small platform flying perfectly acro plus all the gps modes at the same time.

@JoshuaBardwell 5 месяцев назад

Ok I'll try an auto-tune next and see if it flies better.

@dihler55 5 месяцев назад

When you do autotune do it in a larger open area because they can get kinda rowdy. And try to not freak out and be ready for whatever follows. It can be scary (learnt that the hard way when my first project was a VTOL lol)@@JoshuaBardwell

@jessehoffman5302 5 месяцев назад

That's pretty cool about your explorer. Would love to see a video on it some time.

@prodtz 5 месяцев назад

@@jessehoffman5302 never done a video on anything. what would you like to see?

@dominicpsn 5 месяцев назад

@@prodtzall the cool stuff

@vhfgamer 5 месяцев назад

If you want to understand what pixhawk is in very simplistic terms... here you go. Pixhawk is to DJI like Android is to Apple. It can do everything DJI can do, just as good or better, with extra functionality, extra hack-ability, doesn't spy on you, and does it cheaper. The only drawback is you have to learn how to use it. Also, your accelerometer needs better calibration because you were wobbling all over the place when calibrating it. You can't just hold it with your hand like that. You must balance it against an object and be absolutely still for it to fly correctly. I've flown APM 2.8s that drifted less because they were calibrated better. You can do a lot with the pixhawks. Drones? Yep. Airplanes? Yep. Helicopters? Yep. RC cars? Yep. Rovers? Yep. Boats? Yep. Submarines? Yep.

@tymoteuszkazubski2755 5 месяцев назад

For those uninitiated APM2.8 stopped being supported over 8 years ago and runs on ATmega 2560, 8 bit CPU

@vhfgamer 5 месяцев назад

@@tymoteuszkazubski2755 Yep! You got it! So it's pretty sad when a brand new pixhawk is so badly calibrated that if wanders around more than the massively outdated APM. I remember the early days of the pixhawk when a bad calibration would send the drone rocketing into the ceiling. Right into a fire sprinkler nozzle. Ask me how I know.....

@dannyvardy8839 5 месяцев назад

Hey I've still got a 2.5... Don't be mean. Haha.

@lukasztrzcinski3062 5 месяцев назад

@@tymoteuszkazubski2755but we have a better hardware for ardu now e.g. F405 SpeedyBee with newer sensors.

@HolybroLimited 4 месяца назад

Joshua, thanks for using our Products! make sure to reach out to us if you have any question.

@crash_lander 5 месяцев назад

Pixhawk is actually the standard board layout of the FC. PX4 & Ardupilot are the firmwares that run on the FC and Qground control & mission planner are config & flight management softwares. The reason the Quad kept drifting was because you did not calibrate the compass in the video.

@Tyler-qz9uc 5 месяцев назад

It's cool to see you come to the other side of the hobby

@yatzeegamingop 5 месяцев назад

To give a perspective on what these can do, here is the mission for our pixhawk plane; Takeoff, go to a predetermined area, find the red spot and save its coordinates. add it to the waypoint list for the next lap, go around the parkour, drop a ball in a way that it will hit the red area, do it again, and finally land on the runway. It does these things all by itself, but calibrating and configuring the control system is a pain in the butt.

@bentsprockettech 5 месяцев назад

This is one of the happiest days of my life. I'm a big fan, but I never thought I would see you build a GC based drone. I've been in the drone design business for a few years and I'm glad that someone with your skills has introduced these to the FPV community. Thank you.

@heliharris69 5 месяцев назад

My very first Drone was a Tarrot 680Pro with a Pixhawk FC.... just fancied the challenge of assembling such a thing. Assembly went well as did installing all the electronics which at that time required some soldering. I then got it professionally set up using ardupilot and Mission planer as i hadn't a clue how to do it. Well about 15yrs on it still flying great... albeit not that often and it's never been crashed just a few hard landings without damage... So reliability has been exceptional. Its great that your doing something "different" from the norm... Which i found really enjoyable and took me back 15yrs. Thank you.

@paulmillard1130 5 месяцев назад

I have never met another flyer here in N.E. England I have built all 23 of my drones and this guy got me through everything.Hats off to Joshua Bardwell.

@showboatfpv9677 5 месяцев назад

That's a shame. Did you ever try to pull anyone into the hobby? I've noticed that people who show interest in my builds are often hooked after I take them for a flight using my spare goggles and spare radio in buddy box mode. Give it a try if possible! Nothing like flying with friends.

@leonardothillet6423 5 месяцев назад

The intro would've been a classic if he said "I'm Joshua Bardwell and WE are gonna learn something today" lol, I did love this walk thru and definitely think he should make videos like this where he is also learning new stuff, super fun to watch! Now I want to build one of those 😂

@Furby_assassin 5 месяцев назад

Thought the same thing 😂😂

@karthik_kwads 5 месяцев назад

Hey JB, You can get the ELRS and crossfire work with PX4 but it requires you to build the firmware to include those drivers. It's a pain for people who are not aware of it. I can get you the firmware which worked for me. I have made a video of it flying a while ago but never got time to make a video of "How to".

@easyefpv6609 5 месяцев назад

This is why I love chatgpt!!! I've learned so much about computers and programs

@robertparenton7470 5 месяцев назад

Thank You! Glad you made this video!

@jannicawunge4940 5 месяцев назад

I really liked this video. Not just because I have thought of getting into Ardupilot but also because of the way you let us follow your trails and errors. Bring us moore! Way to go Joshua!

@jpalmerico 5 месяцев назад

Hi Joshua. I am glad you are getting into this corner of the FPV space. I am curious to learn more about it, and I like your presentation style. Please continue!

@AKtoTok 5 месяцев назад

Looking good Josh! Ty again.

@ham003latechedu 5 месяцев назад

Pixhawk, "this is the way"😢😢😢finallyyy!! Please build a bad to the bone ardupilot rig.

@MJ-bj1gn 5 месяцев назад

yes, yes yes!! I've been waiting many years for this type of content on your channel 🎉. Keep it up!

@PilotPlater 5 месяцев назад

I've wanted to make nearly this exact build since I started in FPV, thanks for this video Joshua, I'm going to go for it!

@rippfpv 5 месяцев назад

It’s good to have you back jb!

@k4x4map46 5 месяцев назад

you've got my attention...again!!! this is definitely the direction I've been heading for a loooong time yet needed a baseline to begin with...you sir are that baseline!! thanks!

@k5utc 5 месяцев назад

Love it! keep it up.

@sahilmansoori3511 5 месяцев назад

Was waiting for hell of a decade for this video

@scottlitten9727 3 месяца назад

Great to see you do a large drone. PLEASE do more !!!!!

@MessingWithCode 5 месяцев назад

Great Video as Always.

@J0o0o0o0o0ee 5 месяцев назад

This was awesome inspired by your drive for knowledge and growth

@audioflight9161 5 месяцев назад

Really cool video, great to see you getting into Pixhawk!

@jefftokplo 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video.🤙🏾

@henrykim4535 5 месяцев назад

Love this new venture and looking forward to more ArduPilot content.

@andriy1000 5 месяцев назад

The Pixhawk stuff is a whole other story. Thank you, Joshua. Looking forward to watching the new Pixhawk playlist

@richardcattarusa2980 5 месяцев назад

Looking good boy! Nice flying

@Malik.essadi 5 месяцев назад

Been waiting for this video for ages

@duanebowman9595 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@SanneBerkhuizen 4 месяца назад

I like the idea of connector for motors

@davidpulvermacher1488 5 месяцев назад

It was wonderful to see you go through the paces Joshua. You made me laugh because I went through the Ardupilot trials with my first drones, and only discovered FPV much later afterwards. Pixhawk and Ardupilot are remarkable open source platforms, and the devs need to be congratulated on the sophistication of their achievements. Thanks for a very entertain video, as ever. Best wishes from South Africa. 😎

@holisticaustralia 2 месяца назад

An extraordinary leaf blower, Great work Mr.B ✌️😊

@JasonParham83 5 месяцев назад

Aaannnd im back to watching full videos. Love this type of content.

@unknown_0ne 2 месяца назад

Man just in time for me I was just getting into ardupilot. Thanks JB

@djSpinege 5 месяцев назад

This brought back so many memories of when I worked for an industrial Drone business in 2014. Especially the frustration lol.

@FPVKyivUA 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for such kind of kit review. Please go deeper, lidar, op flow and so on. Hope to see you next time 😊

@scottlachance2914 5 месяцев назад

Bravo, Joshua you stepped outside your comfort zone. I have been using pixhawk way before betaflight and have also struggled with it but it’s the best framework out there to control non-assisted flight for DIY community. I built a hexacoptper, pix, hawk clone, and it flies great seven years after I built it.

@shakeymikesadventures6793 5 месяцев назад

Welcome to what I was doing and working with back in 2016.

@Ultimatevr123 5 месяцев назад

I had a pixhawk setup on a large quad port with a parachute, I had a motor failure and the pixhawk calculated an uncontrolled decent as it’s supposed to and automatically deployed the chute…worked perfectly. I also ran redundant gpa sensors for blending as well. Absolutely fantastic. Flight controller. The ardupilot firmware and hardware really were the pioneers of the flight controller world…years and years ago.

@SuperFerryman 5 месяцев назад

This is a post of despair!! I have two Pixhawk Cube and CUAV 5+. After 5 years of use, I was convinced that PX4 & Ardupilot is the worst system! Many dozens of updates have been released and almost nothing changes, constant errors and a drone crash. I could have assumed that the problem was with the flight controller, but I used three new ones! ! Out of curiosity, I bought a flight controller - a Boeing Paladin..... AND A MIRACLE HAPPENED !!! I didn't even know that such stable systems existed. Flight readiness occurs 5 seconds after the battery is connected, positioning accuracy is 2-3 cm. Flight stability is excellent

@funkynerd_com 5 месяцев назад

This was fun! I loved watching you learn Ardupilot. Brought back memories of me going through the same thing about 10 years ago, which is why I enjoyed it so much. Autonomous drones are definitely a different world. I struggled a little bit making the switch the other way to racing drones. I still wish Ardu had proper support for CSRF and ELRS as being able to ditch the extra telemetry gear would be nice. Anyway, welcome to the dark side! Enjoy!

@richmiller540 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this Joshua, I've been thinking about this kind of platform for a winter project but had no idea where to start and then as if by magic JB puts out a video. 👊

@grabunt 5 месяцев назад

“Why is it drifting” is giving me flashbacks to when I tried this with my homebuilt 3dr Arducopter back in the day. Every new firmware release had a new way to raise your heart rate. Today that drone is a very nice living room decoration.

@rickm1283 5 месяцев назад

I did the same drone but used a orange cube. Definitely a learning curve. It was and still is a great learning experience....I did put a vista on it, the sound from the big props grabs your attention 😂. Thans will definitely stay tuned for the series. Thanks.

@user-sy5tc6gi4c 5 месяцев назад

Didn't fly in this season (lack of time). Winter comming now, nice to come back to Your channel and see that You have extended your perspective beyond betaflight and manual (racing/acro) fpv, to more robotic approach like arducopter and pixhawk. Nice.

@ericbraun4652 5 месяцев назад

GREAT Ardu journey! My very first drone had a Pixhawk FC running Ardu and it was very good at what it did. And the Alta X uses FreeFly's version of PX4 so my experience came in handy when we started flying those. Put it in Acro if you want that full control. It is a rate mode with no GPS and no barometer. And, there is RTK available for PX4 and Ardu. People have actually flown the Alta X in Acro mode!

@crash_lander 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Mr. Bardwell, it’s like you heard my inner voice to make video on this topic. Keep it going bro!!

@N8904V 5 месяцев назад

Great video...

@stuarthayden3381 5 месяцев назад

Thanks

@akselhansen7670 5 месяцев назад

My latest pixhawk coupter very stable in loiter mode... As far i remember compass has to be carefully calibrated. Also using the dshot protocol for the motors further stabilized loiter mode...

@djsolstice8964 5 месяцев назад

FINALY!, Ardupilot on this channel. 😊

@sakuratears9731 5 месяцев назад

I’ve been flying arducopter 7 inch long range drone for about half a year. The reliability is very good and it still offers good enough acro performance. However, to get this kind of acro performance, a lot of tuning is required. I’m so happy to see that finally a fpv content creator starts to play with ardupilot.

@ntnwwnet 4 месяца назад

Looking forward to more! I’m using the same kit to build a DJI clone that does RC and VTX over cellular LTE.

@R.B_B 5 месяцев назад

Nice!

@TheTomJon 5 месяцев назад

OMFG JB IVE BEEN WAITING YEEEEAAAAAARRRRRS FOR THIS!! YES YES YES!

@Ultimatevr123 5 месяцев назад

I’ve been using these for a long time. I started building home made hps quads with the apm 2.6, then 2.8 then the pixhawk.

@Toysrme 4 месяца назад

I found a decade ago that just tuning the PID loop well and adding a downward facing sonar to help sense altitude could keep a large quad hovering in about a foot box. That was with the original pixhawk board and terrible sensors of the day! Add a sonar! They are very cheap and it’ll help!

@truggles120 5 месяцев назад

If you didn't know, you can turn expresslrs into a MAV link system.

@musicvr3368 5 месяцев назад

i actually started FPV with a pixhawk cube orange, and i have to say that ardupilot set my expectations high for drones in general. the potential is endless when it comes to ardupilot

@nomad8426 5 месяцев назад

I love this Joshua. I have been through this years ago. Just before I found you and fpv lol

@user-eg7ed4wt9p 5 месяцев назад

would put optic sensor for sure, very cool!

@maddercat 5 месяцев назад

Yeah you should add a camera and a claw to it for rescuing drones in bandos that are flying in areas that are difficult to recover. They used to have one like that I know with Ladrib who was flying in that bando down in florida a lot right?

@TheNnpatel 4 месяца назад

You can use Position Hold, it will keep it in same place

@hersheykiss9500 4 месяца назад

oh yeah, really important is to check the logs to see what your vibration levels are. vibration levels can be the main cause of instability.

@redreefbud 5 месяцев назад

When i first decided i wanted to bui6a drone this was first thing i almost bought 😉 was surprised to find people using other things 😁 cool build man. I will finish watching whole video when i have a min 😉 busy with work at the time

@frobi6852 5 месяцев назад

Mission planner FTW!!!

@Drone_Addict_ 5 месяцев назад

I so want this.

@RollsFPV 5 месяцев назад

About time you got into the Pixhawk scene my 1st builds were all ardupilot based systems the things you can do apart from what you already mentioned you can add daughter computers and have vision obstacle avoidance so much for the enthusiast that's into tinkering... Love to see a whole series leading to adding daughter PC boards and vision systems etc, don't know if you'll be up to it or not its a lot of work and research.

@Vousie 5 месяцев назад

So cool to see you doing a video about ArduPilot. You could also try out its waypoint missions if you feel like doing another video about it.

@khimbittle7705 5 месяцев назад

Great video, you should explore further.

@yancymuu4977 5 месяцев назад

I just put together the same Holybro from about a month ago. I have gotten the expresslrs radiomastef rp3 working on the drone with the PX4 firmware. It was a difficult endeavor as I am new to the hobby. One needs to recompile the firmware on a Linux computer with the expresslrs module linked in (steep learning curve). I also found it was possible to connect the control input through the s.bus input with the elrs receiver in s.bus mode. The problem with that is there did not seem to be any way to get telemetry back to the radio. At least I couldn't find a way.

@darrensontos1012 5 месяцев назад

I like putting ardupilot in my hobby builds, especially for fixed wing, because the ability to loiter and return to home on failsafe have saved my butt so many times

@daniel.pendzich 5 месяцев назад

I stumbled my way through the ArduPilot experience when I got a HeeWing T1 VTOL. I'm super excited to see your experience with it. I don't know much, but from what I've seen it appears to be more complicated than betaflight, but also much more feature rich.

@sunkidus 5 месяцев назад

I've been waiting a while for a jb ardupilot video. More plz

@benjaming9835 5 месяцев назад

Welcome to Ardupilot, love to see you convert one of your freestyle / long range drones over to ardupilot.

@johncarold 5 месяцев назад

Hi Josh, WoW ! I know something before you, I have been looking at Pixhawk F.C and ARDUPILOT for my 10in quad. I am impressed with the quality of this kit. I wish it was available a year ago. I can't wait until you get ARDUPILOT working properly, and then you can help me out with mine. Thanks again for the video and information

@kensanders2617 5 месяцев назад

Hey Bardwell those six buttons on the front of your... They design that radio for Pizhawk... 6 position flight mode switch..

@caturlifelive 4 месяца назад

i hope you can make another video about pixhawk or maybe apm. so nostalgic

@mntlfpv 5 месяцев назад

Years ago i had a 3ds solo that used pixhawk. the system hasn't changed much since then in its basics.

@justin6125 3 месяца назад

I bought that kit last year but I'm useing the cube orange pixhawk on board and the siyi video system.

@zach.tempone 5 месяцев назад

Hearing “learning is lame” from the You’re gonna learn something today guy is funny 😂

@yongfpv6239 5 месяцев назад

Adrucopter support crsf receiver,Use serial x choose 23 option

@RizHassan 5 месяцев назад

Supper happy to see JB tipping his toes in the world of Ardupilot and DroneCode Firmware. My entire quads and planes run Ardupilot firmware and I use Mission Planner to configure and mission plan. The reason I don’t use QGroundControl is because parameter mapping is not 1-to-1 if you are running Ardupilot Firmware. So be careful @JB. Few tips: 1. Perform compass, and FC calibration before installing the FC and GPS on the aircraft. 2. You can use Mavlink protocol or FrSky Fport protocols for both telemetry and radio control. I use TBS crossfire with Mavlink protocol and I run Yaapu Lua script on my colorful TX16 radio. Supper sexy! 3. If your quad is still drifting in Loiter mode, use Autotune mode in a large field (away from trees). Welcome to the dark side Mr. Bardwell. Several years ago, I had asked you to pickup Ardupilot content since there are very few on RU-vid besides MadTech and Painless360.

@thatguyblue4811 5 месяцев назад

Cool to see you explore this kind of drone as well as use Ardupilot. I seem to remember you mentioning that you wanted to try it some time.

@QuadographyAustralia1965 5 месяцев назад

That was great mate, Pixhawk was my first intro to drones with the 3DR Iris plus then the Solo both with camera gimbals for a gopro, there are some great flight modes Josh, I used orbit a bit, there's follow me via Gps, land mode is handy, waypoint missions easy to do, I think your Loiter was getting ground effect from the large amount of thrust, try it higher up and it should just sit there rock solid on 18 sats, my drone's are just sitting around these days as I'm addicted to FPV small drones, thanks to you😊Cheers...Jason.

@gadgetrc94 5 месяцев назад

Program a flight path around the property and chase one drone with another drone. Use photogrammetry software to render a 3d map of the area. Optimize for loiter time, then carry a gate that you do as many power loops through as you can before the robot lands. Install an optical range finder to hover a precise distance over your roof, then use the prop wash to blast leaves off the house.

@FlyZoneFpv 5 месяцев назад

good stuff JB

@0nec00ler 5 месяцев назад

Flashbacks from 2010:)

@christophergoebel7569 5 месяцев назад

this is the platform many of us learned on to build drones over 6 years ago

@djsolstice8964 5 месяцев назад

I use ELRS with Ardupilot, you have to use the Mission Planner software and select CRSF protocol as input.

@Sam-gr8pl 5 месяцев назад

nice something new..waiting for the new video thx

@MatttKelly 5 месяцев назад

We make vtols and large 6 foot wingspan multirotors for my job and use very similar products. :)

@akdriveus 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the video! It would be great to see how this drone can be used with a companion computer like Jetson Nano.

@weirdmark 5 месяцев назад

I have a sim but need a better computer. I watched this and have watched you, Drew and Steel build FPVs. It is fascinating to me. This one was a little more complicated than most and a lot of it was over my head. I’m going to learn to do this. I better hurry because I’m 74.

@OsmioGonzalez 5 месяцев назад

Hello, I hope you have a good day. I think the work you do is spectacular and I would like to express my interest in a series of videos exploring Ardupilot for drones or even airplanes. Good luck if you decide to embark on such a series.