First off, we have an exciting announcement about the 2013 SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition. After months of filling out forms, writing emails, and making phone calls, we’ve nailed down a date and location for the 2013 SparkFun AVC. The event will take place on June 8, 2013 at the Boulder Reservoir.

If you’re not familiar with the AVC, this has…

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RCTimer Voltage & Current Sensor (http://www.rctimer.com/index.php?gOo=goods_details.dwt&goodsid=861&productname=) it is now available (i have ordered one). I have one AttoPilot Voltage and Current Sense…

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I had a heck of a time pulling it together in the final days before the competition with a nerve-wrecking mix of failure and triumph. Ah good times! :D

• Pictures and narrative here…

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I've written up a recap of the 2011 AVC form Team Tobor's point of view. You can check it out here:

 

http://scottrharris.blogspot.com/2011/04/sparkfun-avc-2011-report.html

 

I'm planing on writing up some…

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Hi eveyone,

I received my first order from Batch PCB yesterday, it was my first foray into an actual drone. I designed the PCB myself, from scratch, so I was pretty proud when I plugged it in and it started working. It has been designed around the ArduIMU+ V2, the Locosys LS20031, an OpenLog, and of…

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Just begs to be mentioned here.

Ardupilots for Free Day is January 7th.

Sparkfun

For three wins:



Ardupilot Team vs. Trees



Ardupilot 2 Trees 0





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For those that missed, it, today's Sparkfun event was a smash, literally and figuratively. It turns out that U(A)V's of all stripes have the same propensities as Charlie Brown kite. Aside from the Trees into which Jordi scored direct hits, the wheeled varietals… Continue

New IMU offered by Sparkfun here. I think this board has some great potential that could lead to some all singing, all dancing Arduino-native IMU.



The fact that this IMU is built around the ATMege 168 makes me think that it could be re-flashed to become some sort of "ArduIMU" board, and even run a ported version of the "Premerlani-Bizard robust direction… Continue

My girl always said that "good things come in small, teal boxes", and now I think I understand... I am all about small, red boxes!

Kudos to Sparkfun and the DIYDrones developers who got the hardware / software / simulators figured out - this really opens the door for the rest of us to tinker… Continue