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What functionality is really available today?

Posted by Andrew Bailey on November 23, 2010 at 11:24am
I have placed an order for an Arducopter kit and I am very enthusiastic about this project. After looking through this site further and the Arducopter Wiki I am very confused however about what I will actually get for my money.

According to the Arducopter home page the following functions are in the "Feature list"

  • GPS for position hold
  • Magnetometer for heading determination
  • Barometer for altitude hold
  • IR sensor integration for obstacle avoidance
  • Sonar sensor for automated takeoff and landing capability
  • Automated waypoint navigation
  • Mounted camera stabilization capability

When I look through the issues in the Wiki it looks to me as though none of these are actually available or tested as working in the current release of the software.

Have I missed something? 


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  • Sebastian Gralla November 23, 2010 at 12:03pm
    it is still in ALPHA (you know what this means?)
    it supports barometer, sonar and gps hold at this time of development (at least gps hold, i'm not really sure about the other 2, i can't test them)
  • Taylor Cox November 23, 2010 at 11:37am
    There working on the GPS stuff right. The rest will come in the following months.
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