Rotomotion autopilot kit for sale

I have a rotomotion autopilot kit on my shelf that I'd like to find a good home for. This was purchased back in August of '02. I had a buddy of mine who's a good hardware tech begin the assembly process. I think he installed the cpu on the main board, and that's as far as we got. I got side tracked with other things and never even attempted to power it on or boot it up. The initial work looks very clean and professional, so the kit is in excellent condition, but it's been sitting in the box ever since we completed the first steps of the assembly instructions.

I believe source code and instructions are still available at http://autopilot.sf.net, and I think this is a rev2.2 kit (?)

The kit includes 2 rotomotion bumper stickers, the main board with processor and some supporting bits already installed. There's a bunch of chips, resisters, capacitors, and various connectors. It also looks like there is some small lcd display still in the original bubble wrap.

As I've probably mentioned before in other places. I'm more of a software guy, so a hardware kit like this doesn't do me much good sitting on my shelf, but perhaps there is some other hobbiest out there who would have a blast finishing the assembly and getting it up and flying?

The box of parts will probably cost about $5-10 to ship. I can't say for certain that every piece in the original kit is still in the box for sure, and I can't guarantee any of this works, but everything looks like it is in excellent condition. If anyone is interested, please make me an offer over and above the cost of shipping, and if there is more than one person interested, I'll take the best offer.

I have no idea if any of this kit has any export restrictions on it, and I don't want to spend time trying to figure all that out for certain, so I apologize to non-USA residents, but in order to avoid any potential problems, I'd like to ship this to someone in the USA.

Thanks,

Curt.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Crossfire on December 30, 2008 at 1:12pm
If it has the sensors it could be quite valuable. The cost of a full IMU & compass has not decreased significantly in 7 years. The uBlox GPS also has not decreased in price. autopilot.sf.net doesn't have anything which flies itself.
Permalink Reply by Shamus on February 9, 2009 at 9:06pm
Curt-

I'm definitely interested. I was just on the phone with Rotomotion today asking if these kits still exist. Shoot me a direct email at seokeefe@hotmail.com. I have no idea what a kit is worth...how about $100 + shipping.

Thx

Shamus
Permalink Reply by jason on March 18, 2009 at 1:15pm
Aloha,
I am very interested. Please drop me an email at your earliest convenience. I can offer you a great price once i know
exactly what all is included. Can you give me an idea of what you paid for everything? I know that they were offering several kits around the time you purchased this kit. Some were 'do it yourself kits" some were full design kits.

dr_tott25@hotmail.com

Thank you in advance for your time. Please let me know also if this is even still available.

MAHALO,
JASON
Permalink Reply by Curt Olson on March 19, 2009 at 8:20am
I have the box here, it was originally shipped to me on Aug 09, 2002 so maybe that will give you a bit of an idea of which product it is and which vintage? I've long ago lost all the email correspondence or anything I'd printed out in terms of documentation.

The board includes an ATMEGA163 chip with a hand written label "Boot 2.2".

I think all the parts and chips are there. I had a friend who's an electronics hardware expert do the first step of the installation, but then I got distracted with other things and we never finished the board assembly. This is definitely a "do it yourself" kit.

All I can do is offer it as is. I don't think any parts have fallen out of the box, but I don't have the original parts list so I can't go back and double check that. The box has been floating around since 2002 ...

There are a lot of little parts, so if you want me to look for some particular thing to verify it's there, I can try to do that, but I'd really rather not spend half a day creating a detailed inventory of every component in the box.

(It's still available if you want it.)

Best regards,

Curt.
Permalink Reply by ray gillinder on July 9, 2009 at 3:51am
Hello Curt
Do you still have the system?
can you email me at ray@helimetrex.com.au

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