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3D Robotics New ArduIMU+ Firmware & Ground Station revision



Hello dear community! I'm pleased to announce a new polished version of the ArduIMU+ Ground Station based on LabView and firmware.



Whats new on the GS:

-Better Look.

-Simple, lightweight, functional and funny virtual horizon (VHLOL).… Continue

Added by Jordi Muñoz on February 17, 2010 at 10:55pm — 49 Comments

Programmers for the UAV DevBoard

UAV DevBoard pilots:

SparkFun is out of stock for both their Olimex ICD2s, which is what I've been recommending to program the UAV DevBoard, as well as their Olimex PICPOCKET, which I do not have enough information right now to provide any recommendations one way or another. SparkFun is discontinuing the ICD2, it is their intent to sell the PICPOCKET instead. Those are out of stock right now.…

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Added by William Premerlani on February 17, 2010 at 6:30pm — 26 Comments

Neurofuzzy helicopter problems

In my last post, i had vibration issues, remember??


So, what did i do to resolve that??


- First, we design a better place for the sensor to be, it uses elastic bands, that improve a lot the readings, but we still had glitches on the angles.


- We change from DCM to Kalman, because the performance of Kalman was better, and faster.


- We use a second filter, we implement a simple digital…
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Added by Aldo Vargas on February 17, 2010 at 9:22am — 14 Comments


3D Robotics White House talks about DIYDrones, cheaper UAV alternatives!

At last week's…
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Added by Chris Anderson on February 17, 2010 at 8:30am — 34 Comments

Complementary filter demo









This is a demonstration of complementary filters on pitch and roll attitude using 3 gyroscopes and 3 accelerometers running on a custom Quadrotor controller board. Filters are coded in Python on the laptop with VPython rendering of spinning 3D cubes. Sensor processing code is running on the ATMega644p-based controller and is written in C. For Python code, see:… Continue

Added by Roy Brewer on February 16, 2010 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

1$ CompuFly USBtoPPM convertor for Developers

Hi Guys,



I have 5 unit CompuFly for the developers who can promise to write opensource control software.



My first post was here: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/usbtoppm-generator-for-pc



Price is only 1$ for developers :)…





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Added by Melih Karakelle on February 16, 2010 at 10:08am — 3 Comments

Unlicensed Police Drone Grounded

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8517726.stm

Unlicensed Merseyside Police drone grounded



Police on Merseyside have had to ground their new drone over concerns it was being used illegally without a…

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Added by Sentinel on February 16, 2010 at 8:47am — 10 Comments


Moderator RC Flight Stabilization and RTH system.

Flight Stabilization integrates the tree-axis gyroscope, thee axis acceleration, which make up a basic platform inertial navigation system.

I found this new Thai maybe China Product. Maybe it could have some interest for some in here.

The manual can be found…

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Added by Hooks on February 16, 2010 at 5:03am — 17 Comments


Developer Converting Telemetry for Analysis in Google Earth

Two short videos showing how to analyse telemetry in Google Earth.

I use a python script called uav_log_to_kml.py, which is still fairly rough around the

edges (alpha quality), but is useful. In part 1 I show how to use the script to create a

spreadsheet and Google Earth KMZ File. In part 2, we explore the telemetry in Google Earth.…



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Added by Pete Hollands on February 16, 2010 at 3:30am — 1 Comment

Podcast Episode 16 - David Ankers and Angus Peart launch OpenPilot

iTunes links

AAC: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330632997

MP3: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330633212



RSS feed

AAC: http://feeds.feedburner.com/diydrones

MP3:… Continue

Added by Tim Trueman on February 15, 2010 at 9:30pm — 12 Comments

Razor 9DOF HP filter removal (original 16MHz version)

For those with the 16HMz AT328P version of the SparkFun Razor9DOF board who also want to run the DCM based AHRS code, this may be of interest.

First read Jordi's post for the ArduIMU and Razor6DOF boards:


To remove the 3 highpass filters from the… Continue

Added by Mark Whitehorn on February 15, 2010 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments


3D Robotics Moving DIY Drones documentation to Google Code Wikis



Following the great example of the UAVDevBoard team, who have excellent documentation on their Google Code wiki, we'll be moving all the DIY Drones product documentation to Google Code wikis for each product.



The first product to move is…

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Added by Chris Anderson on February 15, 2010 at 1:30pm — 8 Comments


Developer Paparazzi for Linux: A Beagleboard based Autopilot System

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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Added by Pat Hickey on February 15, 2010 at 8:58am — 2 Comments

HobbyKing headtracker

Hobbyking has come out with their, as far as I know, first headtracker. Or, as they call it, the 'Advanced Head-Movement-Tracker Gyro'. Price is US$ 54.95.





There is detailed information on the website, I only post some of the specifications here.

Power: 8V to 12V DC power supply. Some

transmitters, especially those FUTABA ones, can… Continue

Added by CrashingDutchman on February 15, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Introducing OpenPilot

Introducing OpenPilot - Open Source UAV Platform…

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Added by Angus Peart on February 15, 2010 at 12:03am — 7 Comments


3D Robotics DIYDrones Podcast/Livechat with Angus Peart tonight at 9:00 PM PST

Free video streaming by Ustream



Tonight we'll do podcast #16, which everyone here is… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on February 14, 2010 at 7:43pm — 7 Comments


Developer Ardupilot testing

Hi all,



Testing Ardupilot 2.5 from Jason Short on Vimeo.







Here's a video of testing today. I had a flawless run of the T3 round two course. Everything was looking good. I'll post the code today on the repository.


Some flight notes. I completely remove the I term (by setting it to…
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Added by jasonshort on February 13, 2010 at 4:23pm — 42 Comments

Heineken Robot - Developed at the ASL, Middlesex University.

Added by Dr Stephen Prior on February 13, 2010 at 2:52pm — 9 Comments

Something new is coming...





Do you want to find out what this is all about?

If you do, you should listen to the podcast this Sunday night for all the details.

For now, a few features of this mystery device pictured…
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Added by Angus Peart on February 13, 2010 at 10:22am — No Comments

New variation of the ardupilot...

Hello all, i am thinking of making a variation of the ardupilot that has a built in airspeed sensor, and comes with thermopile baord and ublox gps connecter, and ofcoard the attiny with multiplexor and atmega328...
Is anyone interested ?

Added by imran paruk on February 13, 2010 at 5:15am — 4 Comments

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