May 2010 Blog Posts (99)

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Moderator OpenPilot store open



I see that the chaps down under, where woman blow and men chunder, have opened their store.



The first product I see of interest is the GPS which can be used with Ardupilot…



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Added by Gary Mortimer on May 6, 2010 at 7:48am — 15 Comments


3D Robotics New sensors in the DIY Drones store

Over the past few months, Jordi has added a bunch of new sensors in the DIY Drones store, which can be used with ArduIMU+ or ArduPilotMega. Here are the latest ones:…


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Added by Chris Anderson on May 6, 2010 at 7:00am — 6 Comments


3D Robotics Roboseed (autonomous monocopter)



For Jack Crossfire, who is no doubt way beyond this. It was new to me,… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on May 4, 2010 at 10:50pm — 5 Comments

SparkFun's official AVC video

18 teams competed and only 8 crossed the finish line



SparkFun's 2010 Autonomous Vehicle Competition from SparkFun on…

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Added by Tim Trueman on May 4, 2010 at 3:12pm — 4 Comments


Moderator Is this Ardupilot inside this frame?

This picture got me thinking that Ardupilot is inside this Airframe?…

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Added by Hooks on May 4, 2010 at 2:25pm — 24 Comments

Why Freescale's $2 JM16 might be better than atmel's $10 chip set (+FTDI)



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Just reviewing… Continue

Added by bGatti on May 4, 2010 at 1:30pm — 38 Comments

Podcast episode 22: more guests than you can shake an IMU at!



Photo: Chris talking to Pete Hollands at SparkFun


I'm sorry for the delay, this episode was recorded by Chris' phone and my laptop and the background noise required a lot more edits than usual. Jack Crossfire will be pleased to note that I found the source of the reverb and confined it to a theoretical vacuum. Of course the background noise probably didn't help (it's better at the end) but the…
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Added by Tim Trueman on May 3, 2010 at 10:00pm — 7 Comments


Developer UAV from Draganfly - weird design but interesting technical approach

Seems to be very nice. An unusual design but very cool. Isn't it?



More infos here: http://www.draganfly.com/uav-airplane/tango/

Added by Sandro Benigno on May 3, 2010 at 4:30pm — 27 Comments

The FreeSpace IMU

Finally, the article I wrote is out in the May 2010 issue of Circuit Cellar Magazine. Unfortunately I have yet to get my hands on it. From http://www.circuitcellar.com/magazine/; it's $2 to buy or go to Barnes and Noble and get yourself a copy of the magazine.



The FreeSpace IMU: A Quaternion-Based Algorithm for Attitude Estimation…

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Added by Tj Bordelon on May 3, 2010 at 1:42pm — 10 Comments


3D Robotics Drexel Autonomous Blimp Competition results

From BotJunkie:


"The Indoor Aerial Robot Competition was held at Drexel University last week, featuring a bunch of the chubbiest fully autonomous robots you’re ever likely…
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Added by Chris Anderson on May 3, 2010 at 8:55am — 1 Comment


3D Robotics The Open Source Hardware industry: Million Dollar Babies

Philip Torrone and Limor Fried from Adafruit gave a great short presentation at foo camp east last week that discussed the growth in open source hardware companies (including DIY Drones). The industry is now about $50m and doubling annually--they think it's going to be a billion-dollar sector within five years. Companies were surveyed and grouped in "over $1m" and "approaching $1". DIY Drones was in the latter category ;-)


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Added by Chris Anderson on May 3, 2010 at 1:48am — 7 Comments


3D Robotics ArduPilot 2.6 code ready for public beta testing

We've had the ArduPilot 2.6 code in the repository for a while for alpha testers, but it now seems solid enough for wider testing. So it's now available in an easy-to-use zip file for everyone to download and try. Doug Weibel, the main author, has described many of the new features here, but here are some more… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on May 2, 2010 at 6:12pm — 45 Comments


3D Robotics MAKE Magazine's RC issue

This month's MAKE magazine is focused on RC and is especially good. The cover story is an Arduino-controlled RC lawnmower that the guy is converting to autonomous control with ArduPilot, and there are a few other ArduPilot mentions in there (plus a little contribution from me on interfacing RC with… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on May 2, 2010 at 5:18pm — 3 Comments


3D Robotics Insane 14 foot EasyStar



Words fail me. Found…
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Added by Chris Anderson on May 2, 2010 at 4:40pm — 11 Comments

STMicro IMU Development Platform

I'm partial to the STM32 (ARM CORTEX-M3 based uController) line of uControllers, not only for their hardware mul/div instructions, but also for their ability to have the ADC converter continually scanning and pushing to memory its conversion results from a series of analog devices.



Now, it looks like STMicro has a gamer development board, complete with five ST sensors – a 2-axis roll-and-pitch… Continue

Added by Lew Payne on May 2, 2010 at 10:00am — 9 Comments


3D Robotics DIY Drones mentioned in UK Daily Mail article

In an article entitled "The Rise of the…
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Added by Chris Anderson on May 2, 2010 at 9:39am — 16 Comments


3D Robotics ArduPlane home page

 

Convert…
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Added by Chris Anderson on May 1, 2010 at 3:30pm — 707 Comments

TREMOR GCS progress

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Some more progress on the GCS. I integrated a line builder and line manager. The line builder contains the editor to edit GPS coordinates of the line, as well as options for line thickness and color. The line manager imports these coordinates as a set, and given a name. This clears up the line builder, allowing multiple lines to co-exist.


The Line builder can import a list of GPS coordinates from a text file with the format:



lat lon

lat…
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Added by Ravi Gaddipati on May 1, 2010 at 1:30pm — 22 Comments

ardupilot goes into the water Part 11

The Start of the 2010 swimming exercises.
All told about the hardware...
All told about the software...
What´s next?…
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Added by Harald Molle on May 1, 2010 at 8:55am — 10 Comments

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