Pixhawk vs Pixhawk 2?

Jake,

Nobody kicked me off DIYDrones. I deleted mostly everything I had posted on DIYDrones. I was tired of posting helpful information (i.e., doing the legwork) on DIYDrones and not seeing that it was having an effect. I am busy with other projects, and the fun of multirotors/quadcopters is gone for me (DJI [the Chinese] has taken over). I felt I was posting too many negative comments and not really helping the community. In addition, I'm working on my own UAV company, Thomas Butler Technology, in Rockford, Illinois; cannot be giving help to competitors!

The fact the companies are STILL farming production to China irks me too. Even the PCB engineering is being done outside the US (of the 100,000 American electrical engineers, is there not ONE that can design a simple UAV flight controller? Not naming names but they know who they are. Were it not for the greed of companies like Intel and Apple, the technology in China would not be there and many more people in the US would be employed.

Note that the engineering analysis I did of the PixHawk2 has only been reviewed in the past few days since I came back on DIYDrones (my presence must have triggered a red flag...ha!) and this is what AUGUST 2015! I believe the first post related to PixHawk2 showed up in Novemebr 2014! Yes I deleted the analysis posts. It looked to me like I realty didn't need to be wasting my time doing on other peoples work. They could and should do their own R&D. The PixHawk makers have plenty of R&D money to do it themselves.

In addition, the switch away from Eagle CAD was an obvious attempt at fostering "barrier to entry"; now Altium ($$$) CAD is needed to work with the schematics of the PixHawk2. There is/was no technical reason to not use Eagle.

After looking at the response which only showed up this week, they seem to be on the right track. The response is what I expected, and is positive. One comment was on leaving the hard mounted sensors in place for R&D purposes. This is a silly waste of money for most customers, but it does give a (someday, probably, never day) possibility of a vibration analyzer program being run on a user's PixHawk. However, one could easily connect and hard mounted IMU and get the same data

I'm going to try to post only helpful information and try not to be critical of peoples wild ideas...how about that guy doing acrobatics on America's Got Talent at the end of two hoses attached to a jet ski! Wild innovation!

Back to the salt mine!

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- - - - Cala > Emin Bu April 25, 2016 at 2:22pm
        
        I have to wait more time to summer :(
      - titeuf007 > Emin Bu April 25, 2016 at 12:26pm
        
        thanks
        
        do you know if the case will be inclued?and a price range?
        
        thanks for you help
        
        Emin Bu > titeuf007 April 26, 2016 at 2:31am
        
        I am sure there will be case,caseless design we abandoned long time ago...Price?less than 500,not more than 350 i think...it must be more than Pixhawk 1 with all new components...
        
        Developer
        
        Philip > Emin Bu April 27, 2016 at 3:31am
        
        Yes, it will be cased
    - Ryan Watkins > Ryan Watkins April 24, 2016 at 7:47pm
      
      Any news?
  - titeuf007 > Philip April 3, 2016 at 2:57pm
    
    thanks philip
    
    do you know if we will see europeen reseller?
    
    i am pretty sure you next board will have a huge succes
Marc Cretten January 30, 2016 at 11:51pm

Is the pixhawk 2 ever coming out?
- Developer
  
  Philip > Marc Cretten January 31, 2016 at 12:13am
  
  Yes, I am working with partners to get this to market.
  
  As soon as there is any useful information, I will post it.
Developer

Philip August 26, 2015 at 3:48pm

You are more than welcome to join our weekly development call, or join in by submitting code if you are not already doing this. If there is any areas that you feel can be improved, joining in on Git, or Gitter may be good options!

This is open source, make a branch and demo your theory, I, along with the rest of the team would love to see your suggestions in action.
Thomas Butler August 19, 2015 at 12:42pm

Jake,

Nobody kicked me off DIYDrones. I deleted mostly everything I had posted on DIYDrones. I was tired of posting helpful information (i.e., doing the legwork) on DIYDrones and not seeing that it was having an effect. I am busy with other projects, and the fun of multirotors/quadcopters is gone for me (DJI [the Chinese] has taken over). I felt I was posting too many negative comments and not really helping the community. In addition, I'm working on my own UAV company, Thomas Butler Technology, in Rockford, Illinois; cannot be giving help to competitors!

The fact the companies are STILL farming production to China irks me too. Even the PCB engineering is being done outside the US (of the 100,000 American electrical engineers, is there not ONE that can design a simple UAV flight controller? Not naming names but they know who they are. Were it not for the greed of companies like Intel and Apple, the technology in China would not be there and many more people in the US would be employed.

Note that the engineering analysis I did of the PixHawk2 has only been reviewed in the past few days since I came back on DIYDrones (my presence must have triggered a red flag...ha!) and this is what AUGUST 2015! I believe the first post related to PixHawk2 showed up in Novemebr 2014! Yes I deleted the analysis posts. It looked to me like I realty didn't need to be wasting my time doing on other peoples work. They could and should do their own R&D. The PixHawk makers have plenty of R&D money to do it themselves.

In addition, the switch away from Eagle CAD was an obvious attempt at fostering "barrier to entry"; now Altium ($$$) CAD is needed to work with the schematics of the PixHawk2. There is/was no technical reason to not use Eagle.

After looking at the response which only showed up this week, they seem to be on the right track. The response is what I expected, and is positive. One comment was on leaving the hard mounted sensors in place for R&D purposes. This is a silly waste of money for most customers, but it does give a (someday, probably, never day) possibility of a vibration analyzer program being run on a user's PixHawk. However, one could easily connect and hard mounted IMU and get the same data

I'm going to try to post only helpful information and try not to be critical of peoples wild ideas...how about that guy doing acrobatics on America's Got Talent at the end of two hoses attached to a jet ski! Wild innovation!

Back to the salt mine!

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