Hot off the press, a quick exclusive snap of the complete Pixhawk rig installed in our Vulture 2 aircraft, and ready to roll.
Details of the installation to follow, but suffice it to say, it's a tight fit. The Pixhawk buzzer isn't indicated, but sits under the autopilot.
We haven't yet hooked up the Raspberry Pi to the Pixhawk, fearful of a Skynet-style self-awareness incident. That connection will enable us to programme the autopilot via the Pi.
The Pi is lacking its breakout board, which will have a GPS, and Radiometrix transmitter to beam live images from the nose-mounted Picam, as well as acting as a primary tracker. It'll also have a multi-axis accelerometer to record just how horribly everything went wrong just what a triumph the mission was.
The PAVA tracker is a miniature back-up radio transmitter with GPS. There's more on the LOHAN mission here.
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Yes - Our team member Dave Akerman is dealing with this, in liaison with Andrew Tridgell.
You could also use the Pi as a serial server and connect the Pixhawk to the Pi over UART. With that you can connect to the TCP port of the Pi through your GCS remotely and control the Pixhawk same as over the 3DR radios.
@John Moore. We connect the serial adapter to the Pixhawk telemetry 2 port, then install mavproxy on the pi:
apt-get install pyserial python-pip
pip install pymavlink mavproxy
We should then be able to connect to the Pixhawk using a command line. That's for programming purposes. At present, we're connected to our GCS via the 3DR radio to a laptop.
Are you planning to use ser2net to connect the Pixhawk to the Pi to the GCS?
Perhaps a part of the project could be called Chloe
A potent mix. Enjoy
I feel a glass of something and a troublesome daughter coming on.
Don't forget Richard, therein lies the true gag: https://www.richardandjudy.co.uk/home
Punch and Judy, love it.
See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/25/lohan_punch_and_judy_flights/
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