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Four FPV-sized propellers can hold a long carbon-fibre pole upright for hours without lifting it off the ground. That sounds like a strange endurance record for a quadcopter. It is actually a cleaner demonstration of a different problem: the speed at which an actuator can correct an error matters more than the peak force it can produce .
Read articleAn ESC configurator runs on a computer, while the electronic speed controller sits behind the flight controller on an aircraft. The laptop has USB; the ESC generally has a motor signal connection that is being used for something else. Letting the configurator read settings or flash firmware therefore requires a temporary change in ownership of that connection.
Read articleAn onboard camera needs a name so that a ground-control application can show its settings. It should not get to choose a directory on the operator's computer.
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Reporting published 9 November describes St. Vrain Valley Schools students flying a 300-drone show on 28 October in Holyoke, Colorado, for a Make-A-Wish recipient. Bad weather had shifted the event from the preceding Sunday, requiring a midweek deployment by the student team.
Read newsMultiGP's 2026 Collegiate Drone Racing Championship event results list Joshua 'PrincessJ' Lizee at the top of the individual standings, while its champions record names Virginia Tech as the university winner. Recent race coverage describes a finish reviewed on video.
Read newsQGroundControl PR 15437 proposes recognizing the ZeroOne M9 and X9 by USB vendor/product identity and classifying them as Pixhawk devices during connection.
Read newsArduPilot PR 34977 reports that SITL's UARTDriver:: flush() can wait forever during reboot if the SERIAL0 client stops reading or closes, or if baud limiting is enabled. It proposes bounded shutdown behavior.
Read newsMission Planner PR 3862 reports that the Android Flight Data and Plan views may show an empty map while overlay controls still appear. It proposes restoring control double buffering under XplatUIMine.
Read newsArduPilot PR 35064 changes a port check that rejected serial IDs only above an array's element count; a value equal to the count could pass and index beyond the final valid entry.
Read newsBetaflight PR 15989 describes an optional FACTORY or CUSTOM flag in vtxtable band parsing that leaves the channel index at -1 when writing frequencies. The proposed fix advances the parser correctly.
Read newsBetaflight PR 15988 says the aux, adjrange and vtx CLI commands previously checked upper bounds but not negative values returned by atoi(), allowing indexes such as -1 to select memory before an array. It proposes lower-bound validation.
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