Traditional helicopters now supported by ArduCopter2, too!

Check out the firmware loading screen from the latest Mission Planner (1.013). Have you ever seen anything more beautiful??

 

Yes, APM is the first autopilot in history to support every kind of flying machine out there! (We already covered lighter-than-air with Blimpduino). Thanks to the great work of team leader Randy Mackay, the Trex 450 (traditional heli) version of ArduCopter is now fully compatible with ArduCopter 2, which means 2-way MAVLink and all the other mission planning goodness.

 

Randy will be updating the Traditional Heli manual soon with the ArduCopter2 details. One thing he discovered is that the Trex 450 flies a lot better with APM if you go flybarless. A Guai 450 flybarless head can be found for as little as $24.

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Comment by Chris Appleton on June 21, 2011 at 1:31am
*edit - sorry, meant to say that google thinks they were first http://imgur.com/7kvXP
Comment by Rob on June 21, 2011 at 2:48am
Where did the Xquad-config go? I thought it was supported too by AC2?

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Comment by Jani Hirvinen on June 21, 2011 at 2:58am

Chris A, we are supporting Traditional Helis, Quad copters, Hexas, Tri copters, Fixed wings etc ALL from the same firmware/uploader and that is something that no one else has ever done before. Also ArduPilot Mega platform have to support to Rovers and Submarines too. So we are supporting Under Water, on Ground, Up in sky and up in sky with multiple devices.

 

Rob, X Quad, X Hexa are both in there, we just run out of image space on APM Mission Planner upload page, you can select between + and x in software it self.

 


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Comment by Chris Anderson on June 21, 2011 at 6:51am
Chris Appleton: after two years, OpenPilot has still not shipped ANY autopilot. They've just shipped a RC multicopter controller board.

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Comment by Chris Anderson on June 21, 2011 at 6:53am
Rob, "x" and "+" quad configuration are set in the Setup process. They use the same quad firmware.
Comment by Jonathan Lussier on June 21, 2011 at 9:51am
Hi guys, any planning for support of the gress copters?  (gressaero.com)?
Comment by Jonathan Lussier on June 21, 2011 at 9:51am

PS

good work!

Comment by Andrew Whipple on June 21, 2011 at 2:26pm
What language is the program written in, Python? I wish to do a little customization by myself.

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Comment by Chris Anderson on June 21, 2011 at 3:00pm
Andrew: do you mean the Mission Planner? It's in dot.Net. The code is here:
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/source/browse/#svn%2FTools%...
Comment by Andrew Whipple on June 21, 2011 at 6:16pm
yes, thanks!

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