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Has anyone installed a camera for mapping on a 3DR Aero (not Aero-M)?

Posted by W Hayden on July 10, 2015 at 6:47pm

Alternately, I know the E384 basically does what I'm looking for, but I have an IRIS+ with a Pixhawk I'm quite happy with, but it's unclear to me if the APM in the E384 is really a significant difference.

thanks for any help!

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iskess July 11, 2015 at 2:39am

Its quite simple to cut a hole in the foam belly to install a camera of your choosing. Getting it to trigger from the AP is well documented in the wiki. There is no rational reason to buy the Aero-M over the Aero unless you value the Pix4D software.
iskess July 10, 2015 at 7:01pm

I just looked up the E384 and it does have a Pixhawk installed. Now I don't know what your question was.
- W Hayden > iskess July 10, 2015 at 10:17pm
  
  You, sir are absolutely correct!
  
  And I feel like an idiot - I found this review first:
  
  http://www.dronelife.com/cms/product/E384-Complete-Package
  
  and then spent more than an hour running around online in circles.
  
  That must have just been an older review pre-Pixhawk...
  
  thanks so much for your response though, sorry to waste all these electrons though :}
iskess July 10, 2015 at 6:56pm

The APM works well on a skywalker. You are giving up terrain following, numerous types of redundancy, and the SD card for your logs. I'm sure the E384 will switch to a 32 bit AP at some point. In the meantime you could always upgrade to a Pixhawk if you feel you need to.