Comment by Rory Paul on November 11, 2010 at 4:51pm

Shake my UAV three times before launch results in tumbled gyros ; (

Comment by Jason Lyons on November 11, 2010 at 6:36pm

"From my point of view, starting the motor while shaking the plane isnt very clever. How to stop it again? Do you have first start your computer and GCS, holding the plane with the other hand?"

The battery looks pretty easy to unplug.

Comment by Paul Mather on November 11, 2010 at 7:16pm

I think the price is $10K....

Developer Comment by Doug Weibel on November 11, 2010 at 8:21pm

#1 - I really dig the case. It would be even better if the wing were in the foam cut-out on the lid and the laptop were in a foam cutout on the bottom.

#2 - Actually, we are really close to this right now.
Minor differences: Our mission planner still has a few bugs, but does provide point and click waypoint planning, our groundstart required you to level the plane, but this could be rewritten to only cal the gyros and not the accels (we do that now on ArduCopter), we don't do shake to start, we just flip a switch on the transmitter. Only significant difference is that we don't have on the fly command uplink just yet (but it won't be long)

#3 - shake 3 times should not result in tumbled gyros. Gyros should only "tumble" if the rotation rate saturates them. Shaking back and forth does not involve rotation. Of course if you shake it like a can of spray paint, then the IMU might tumble, but it is hard to do that with a whole airplane.

#4 - I don't know about the shake to launch, but I am planning on a throw to launch enhancement that will start the motor when the IMU "sees" the acceleration of a hand launch.

Comment by T.D. Gonzales on November 11, 2010 at 8:24pm

That is a really nice ground control station. I'm sure that the system could be designed to adapt to changes in CoG pretty easy. The military does it since well thats what privates and specialists are for.

These guys have what looks like a pretty good team. Although it seems like they just have a very limited platform with a max payload of 150g for the payload.

Comment by Chris on November 14, 2010 at 4:46am

qcontrol + apm seems pretty close to me

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