Controlling px4 with aurdino

[ktrussell (Kenny Trussell)]

If you haven’t seen these threads, they may be helpful to you:

MAVLink and Arduino: step by step

MAVLink and Arduino by Juan Pedro López This is not a post on the details of MAVLink serial protocol. If you are interested on the protocol itself, you can read the fantastic post by Pedro Alburquerque: This post will be focused on my experience and practical use of MAVLink protocol on an on-board Arduino (Nano with ATmega328) that communicates with a Pixhawk flight controller (a clone one, v2.4.8). I am using the Arduino to control the lights of my drone (WS2812B leds) and the code you will…

Setting Modes with Arduino and Pixhawk2/ArduRover?

Need help on using Arduino to send Mavlink messages to Pixhawk2 rover. I can arm and disarm with the following code and get the return value - MAV_RESULT_ACCEPTED; And the rover arms and disarms ok. //header info int sysid = 255; int compid = 0; mavlink_message_t msg; uint8_t buf[MAVLINK_MAX_PACKET_LEN]; uint16_t len; //<Message #76 COMMAND_LONG - using the mavlink_msg_command_long_pack() function uint8_t target_system=1;// - not really sure why this has to be at a valu of 1 uint8_t ta…