Comment by tycinis on April 4, 2009 at 6:49am

anyone ardupilot (1.0/2.0/2.1) can handle a plane with aileron ?

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on April 4, 2009 at 7:32am

All the versions support aircraft with ailerons. Indeed, ArduPilot 1.0 requires them.

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on April 5, 2009 at 8:16am

@Hessel. I think you posted that comment in the wrong place (it doesn't have anything to do with the topic). Please address your programming questions to Jordi.

Comment by Matt on April 12, 2009 at 2:13am

Is this the right place for wish list requests of just general ideas?

Any chance of the following being included in 2.2
1) battery monitoring and RTL being included in Ardu 2.2? (Using Deans board or similar?)
2) Uplink control (is the the new board capable of this?)

thanks

Matt

Comment by Michael on April 12, 2009 at 4:42am

@ Chris

Is the new board going to backwards compatible with the old software?

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on April 12, 2009 at 7:42am

@Michael. Yes. It's the same board, just with more memory.

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on April 12, 2009 at 7:55am

@Matt:

1) Yes, we'll add support for Dean's power monitoring board.
2) No. ArduPilot only has one hardware serial port, and the Rx side (which would be used by uplink) is used by the GPS. Software Serial libraries that can add serial functionality to any digital pin do not work reliably, in our experience. But ArduPilot Pro, based on the Arduino Mega platform and due out near the end of the year, will have three hardware serial ports and will support uplink.

Note that I've updated the post above to discuss our forthcoming "shields", which will add a lot of functionality to the basic ArduPilot. They'll each cost less than ArduPilot.

Comment by Michael on April 12, 2009 at 3:18pm

@ Chris

Will you release the Eagle files for ArduPilotPro when it is ready in the same way as ArduPilot for those of us who reside outside of the US?

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on April 12, 2009 at 5:12pm

@Michael: Yes, everything we do is open source. But you would have to have very expensive shipping indeed for it to be cheaper to make it yourself than for us to make it for you ;-)

Comment by Matt on April 12, 2009 at 5:42pm

What's the physical difference and raw/parts cost difference between standard and pro.

Is there a consideration for a single unified platform with more features if it's all open source anyway, rather than 2 parallel developments?

@michael & Chris. What are "eagle files"

Matt

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