[SOLVED] Crazyflie not Flying...

[tomilla]

Hi there,

received my little beauty, but it is not flying.
I´m on a Macbook Pro with ubuntu VM. Everything seems allright. Flightcontrol shows movement of PS3-Adapter, Radio is flashing yellow, crazyflie selftest is ok, flashing yellow.
I´m at Factory default because i couldn´t find the flash instructions .

Thrust is going up but the Motors are not running. On Power up motors are ok.
does anyone have a solution for me?

would be nice.

thanks

[tobias]

When the Crazyflie powers up it does a self calibration as soon as it is placed on a stable surface. This is indicated by the red LED which starts to blink with 2Hz instead of 1Hz. Try placing it on a stable surface and the powering it up. Any difference?

[tomilla]

Crazyflie is placed on a table. I think it blinks with 2Hz.

When i pick it up shouldn´t there be a movement on the Horizon?

[tobias]

Yes, when you have connected to the Crazyflie and it has calibrated, the virtual horizon should move and you should get figures in the "actual" text boxes. Don't you get that?

[tomilla]

no movement.

[tomilla]

do you know how to flash the new Firmware to the Crazyflie?

[tobias]

Yes I know how to update the Crazyflie but I think it is good if you manage to connect correctly to it first. Have you followed these instructions? http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyf ... tils:qt_ui

To update the Crazyflie first download the firmware binary from the binary page: http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyf ... ries:index
Follow these instructions: http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyf ... bootloader

[tomilla]

Problem solved - Motors Running. Looks like the Firmware was the Problem.

Thanks for your assistance!

Martin

[skube]

Perhaps you can assist me in getting things going with my Macbook/Ubuntu?

[kylejohnson]

Problem solved - Motors Running. Looks like the Firmware was the Problem.

I just wanted to chime in to say that I also experienced this problem: the crazyflie would never exit the sensor calibrating stage, even though a connection could be established with the crazyradio. (Re)loading the firmware fixed the problem. My guess is that the factory forgot to load the firmware?

Also, I am not sure the discussion was using the term Hertz correctly. Prior to the firmware load, the red light was flashing at 0.5 Hz (once every 2 seconds). Under normal operation, after the sensors are calibrated, the red light flashes at 2 Hertz (once every 1/2 second).

Thanks

Edit: It might be helpful to add a note to the wiki troubleshooting page to this fact: http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyf ... leshooting

Edit 2: I forgot to mention that I'm having a blast flying my crazyflie!