"Fuse the ITG3200 with a mag to handle slow rotations. Will it compete with infinite budget 1960s military hardware? Certainly not, but it's still pretty fantastic for $12, compared to what we had 2 years ago."

"Fair enough and well said. I do think the move to ARM will have many advantages."

"Popularity alone doesn't make something good. Once you're past the learning curve, the ARM MCUs are far superior to AVR8."

"Nice work."

"^-- The dream job for an entire generation."

"The "grab debian deps" step fails with "E: Unable to locate package scicoslab-gtk" on Debian 6.0 amd64. I'm trying to build it from src but seems their git server is down.."

"I like the Easy Glider Pro w/ HobbyKing electronics. Probably costs 2-3X more than a HawkSky but way better quality, higher lift capacity, etc."

"Great work, thanks for posting this John. To improve accuracy, we could store the high res data on a PC or cellphone and send relevant sections to the UAV as needed. Perhaps a MAVLink/QGC extension is in order."