Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on May 18, 2012 at 11:57am

All I will say about that, is discussion about the new boards is not happening in the Arducopter list.  You guys know about as much as I do.

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 12:00pm

Sometimes, I wonder why the APM2 was developed, given that the natural progression is toward 32 bit processors. I suspect the lifecycle of APM2 might be short.

Developer Comment by John Arne Birkeland on May 18, 2012 at 12:20pm

I think one of the core ideas with the APM2 was to use the MPU-6000 to offload the IMU calculations. Tests show that the Invensense DMP works really well as an AHRS IMU.

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on May 18, 2012 at 12:48pm

Ellison: The hint is the "Ardu" part. If you understand why Arduino has dominated the exploding DIY electronics market (blowing away all the 32-bit boards), you will get why we follow the Arduino roadmap. It's not about "feeds and speeds" --it's about community, ease-of-use and accessibility to all. When Arduino moves to ARM (later this year) so will we, but not before.

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 1:23pm

Chris, yes it's definitely a plus to keep within the "Ardu" environment.  I would hate to have to move to any of the proprietary or Eclipse environments.  My current information about the AQ Baloo is that Maple is being ported to it.  Ted, has been testing the code already.  I haven't followed the Baloo progress in the last few months, so I'm not sure of the latest information.  If indeed the Maple port has been completed, I'd probably get one, since I sourced the prototypes, myself from SOC Robotics, in Vancouver. We're not as much on the fast lane as Silicon Valley, I'm not used to product lifecycles of a year. ;-)

Comment by Tim - Arduino for Visual Studio on May 18, 2012 at 1:36pm

Well if you get to a certain chinese resturant on Saturday hopefully Mr Arduino (Massimo Banzi) will have something interesting to tell you :) Obviously with the ARM annoucement from Arduino at the end of last year, Saturday, might be a good day for all :)

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on May 18, 2012 at 1:45pm

Chris, for those of us new to the scene (me) why is Arduino dominating the market?  All I see are criticisms from some "experts".

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 2:01pm

Fab, there's a Chinese restaurant in Italy?

Distributor Comment by Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk on May 18, 2012 at 2:08pm

@ Jason J "Ellison, yep i know. I have seen few NAZA's flying. But you also need to remember that NAZA cannot do any navigation/auto take-offs/landings and things like that. It's just mainly a flight stabilization system. Could we be better, sure…"

 

You might need to rewrite this soon, new NAZA with GPS, RTL and IOC........

 

Regards

 

Martin.

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 2:16pm

Martin, in fact any autopilot can be upgraded to have nav, like the navi board for KK.  I was actually thinking of modifying the AC code so that it provide yaw/roll/pitch/throttle to the Naza.  The AC can do all the navi functions, and since we retain yaw/roll/ptich/throttle all the way down the chain, until we actually set the motors, the code would just set the controls, using four of the motor channels, instead of actually setting the motor pwm.  However, because of the "vario" throttle on the Naza, as I've discovered, elevation/throttle output from the APM may have to be modified.

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