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Pat Hickey commented on Joshua Ott's blog post Drone Con today
"My slides from earlier are available: http://smaccmpilot.org/images/dronecon-talk.pdf And, I haven't watched it yet, but it appears there is a recording available here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/33977711"
Jun 7

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Pat Hickey commented on Nick Weber's blog post My Techpod Nears Completion!
"I maidened my Techpod today. The kit was very high quality and went together great. Flew great too - much better than the 1.68m skywalker (most comparable plane I have experience with) in all aspects. My only complaint is too much flex in the wing.…"
Mar 23

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Pat Hickey replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.69 released
"The 2.68 release is based on the new AP_HAL, which changes the build to be incompatible with the ordinary Arduino IDE - you need to use the special ArduPilot-Arduino 1.0.3, not the vanilla Arduino 1.0.3. Its not surprising that the changes…"
Feb 12

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Pat Hickey commented on Stefan Gofferje's blog post As-small-as-possible "follow-me"-box, "ArduBeacon"
"Hi Stefan, I made a working prototype of this basic idea a few months ago, but I haven't had the time to maintain the code, and nobody else has picked it up. Are you interested in picking up where I left…"
Jan 2

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Pat Hickey commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Raspberry Pi Quadcopter
"He's timing the IO and control loop using a Linux user space timer signal. It isn't hard real time but it is apparently good enough when the processor has enough spare cycles. PWM input and output use an external PIC microcontroller. Kudos…"
Dec 1, 2012
Philip Giacalone commented on Pat Hickey's blog post New Demo of Mavelous, the mobile Mavlink GCS
"Hi all, Mavelous was setup today with a UDB4/MatrixPilot, xbee radios, and an XPlane simulator running a HiLSIM. Here is a video showing the setup, simulated flight, and real time Mavelous…"
Nov 7, 2012

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Linus commented on Pat Hickey's blog post New Demo of Mavelous, the mobile Mavlink GCS
"Hi, tested mavelous today with my APMrover on the bench and think it's great. thanks for the work. keep it up!"
Nov 6, 2012
Philip Giacalone commented on Pat Hickey's blog post New Demo of Mavelous, the mobile Mavlink GCS
"Thanks for your help, John. Mavelous is now running now on my MacBook. It's connected to the UDB4 running MatrixPilot 3.3. Here's a short video showing the setup and operation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIvvHs6G3c Thanks for…"
Nov 6, 2012

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I'm a software engineer living in Portland, OR.
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I'm a developer on the ArduPilot Mega project.

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New Demo of Mavelous, the mobile Mavlink GCS

Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:58pm 35 Comments

John Wiseman and I have been working on the browser-based frontend for Mavproxy which he announced a few weeks ago. Here's a new demo video I made controlling an ArduCopter:

Heres a…

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Paparazzi for Linux: A Beagleboard based Autopilot System

Posted on February 15, 2010 at 8:58am 2 Comments

Hi all - There have been a lot of great microcontroller-based autopilot projects posted here lately. For our entry into the AUVSI UAS competition, we wanted to build an autopilot system with plenty of power for developing our imaging system. We also wanted to use the excellent Paparazzi ground station. The result was to port the Paparazzi autopilot software to run on Linux, and use a 3.5" single board computer onboard.…

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