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Permalink Reply by Kyle Corbitt on October 21, 2009 at 1:27pm

That's some pretty hefty hardware you're putting up in the air! Thought about doing any onboard optical flow control or the like?

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Permalink Reply by Justin Wilson on October 21, 2009 at 1:48pm

Hey Kyle,

Yeah I have a few ideas in the pipeline, instead of being smart and designing the right hardware i thought i may as well throw some Ghz at the problem instead :) - after the video processing there is still alot of FLOPS going begging to play with and add some smarts....

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Permalink Reply by eng.a.ramdan on March 31, 2011 at 2:49am

This is cool, but what is the flight control SW you use ? ,IMU sensors and stuff ? how do you manage all that together ? , it is 2011 now :)

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Permalink Reply by Ritchie on March 31, 2011 at 4:09am

I'm automated a great deal around my house with Arduino trying to get used to it (my curtain controller stepper motor broke this morning :() and in doing so have bought far too many Pro Minis. So I've designed a PCI card with an ATMega 2560 on it and all the leads on the backplate. I've got 3 UARTs spare, 40 IOs, 12 PWM, 16 analogue ins and a direct FTDI into the computer.

It's not particularly hard to take the 2560 reference design and make it fit a PCI board although the PCI custom part is slightly annoying. I'm waiting on its arrival to get my server hooked up and take over everything in the house :D

 

Also you may want to consider doing sensor boards instead of just sensors. That way calibration is done by the board and the output is exactly as you wish so your Atom only has to interpret lightening its load.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Wilson on March 31, 2011 at 4:21am

All the code is custom written in C# and held together with sticky tape. On the hardware side its the Atom as the main processor with an Arduimu talking to some Netduino Minis and lots of wires.....

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