Hello all,We are working hard on our OpenVulture software that is to be released at the Shmoocon 2009 conference in Washington DC. Our goal is to give a live demo of the software.The software is Linux based and is designed to be easily extendable to support additional input & output devices. It is designed to be reachable in-flight over wifi and cellular networks, and allow updates and flight plan modifications.It has fixed wing planes, cars, boats and undersea vehicles in mind (could be used for blimps of course, helis would require their own stabilization equipment which appears to becoming common).It will release with support for MiniSSC servo controller, the SparkFun IMU board, standard NMEA GPS data feeds, and a DIO module. Our compute platform is the Technologic Systems ARM boards, as well as the Gumstix. The gumstix is very limited in IO though, so the TS board will be our primary.Our friend Mike is building the plane.The project will be released open source, along with (hopefully) great documentation and information on the software structure to help aid others that wish to add on.Right now there is a good portion of it done, and we are under the gun to finish it so in no way is this vaporware.This weekend we plan to have it recording a "flight" of a RC car (in terms of GPS coordinates, not servo positions!) and re-flying itThe current home page for OpenVulture is www.757labs.com. We haven't chosen which public repository we will use (SourceForge, GNU's, etc).
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