This is a simple tool to boost development/use on the UDB. It basically loads your Options file and enables editing and compiling (and soon uploading/burning). Here are a few screen shots.

The above is the main screen showing the general settings, including the Vehicle Name, MAVLINK SYSID, among other…

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What's going on here? This is a "Virtual Venice UAV race". It's based on the DIYDrones T3 figure of 8 competition.

The screncast's purpose is to show how pilots can potentially fly their planes in different parts of the world, and then have their geo position and time base altered so that they end up racing side by side in Google…

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MatrixPilot 3.1 is released. The project continues to mature, with a fantastic IMU that is still moving ahead with deep research from William Premerlani. Ben Levitt continues to add amazing features such as the built-in firmware for the OSD hardware that can be attached to the UDB3.…

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Matrix Pilot Camera Targeting: Tree Test - Software Stabilized

Strategy: Have MatrixPilot / UAV DevBoard (UDB) point camera roughly in the right direction.

Take out the jitter movement using software stabilization.

The above flight was flown on a day with 10mph of wind, with a lot of turbulence (I included the landing in the video to show the…

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This is my first fight with a Sony Webbie mounted on my Twinstar 2 attempting to target a known GPS location on the ground using the gyro information from the UAV DevBoard.

Camera Targeting with UAV…

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