I'd like to connect Arduino hardware to a drone to make it autonomous, but I am not able to attain the needed information on the drone that I have now. Does anyone know where I could find one?
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I'm using an arduino board to control a Drone and it's simple to communicate with Pixhawk using Mavlink on the telemetry port, it's just a serial communication and you only need to include your MavLink libraries on your arduino Project, let me know if you need help to achieve this, even with RPi must to be easy, you can use one of the cables that comes with the 6pin connector and use Rx and TX (don't forget Ground)
So would RPi work with Arduino at all? Or should I look to se something else?
Solo runs Pix2, which is not Linux, but Pixhawk . It has a Linux companion computer though. In addition to Erle, you can also check out Navio+ as that runs APM stack on Linux.
To be precise, Solo runs a custom version of the APM stack on Pixhawk 2 hardware. It also runs Debian on two 1 Ghz companion Linux computers (one in the air, one on the ground).
Thank you so much, I really appreciate the help. If I am to build from scratch, what else would I need in addition to these materials other than wiring, a frame, and motors? I will probably stick with the Arduino board, breadboard, and sensors because they are rather cheap compared to the rest I have found. This is only for a school project so I don't want to spend too much.