ArduBoat Dedicated Firmware: Community Interest & Wish List

Posted by AntimatterCrusader on September 25, 2015 at 4:41pm

So, the post I made about some features in ArduRover has sparked a discussion about perhaps creating a dedicated ArduBoat firmware. That post is located here: http://diydrones.com/group/arduboat-user-group/forum/topics/arduboat-any-way-to-have-it-hold-position-against-current-wind


So, I am wondering what type of community interest there is here? I don't personally have the skills required to create and maintain this - but if the interest is great enough perhaps we could crowdfund it on kickstarter or similar to have a developer create the firmware. 

Certainly nothing concrete, I'm just looking for thoughts, and a wish list of features we could implement if we decided to do this...

Regarding a Wishlist - so far, we have: 

- Dynamic Positioning Capability
- Loiter Mode (Where the boat will automatically return to the center of a location after it drifts away - similar to ArduPlane in configuration)
- Implement GeoFencing Capability

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  • David Boulanger September 25, 2015 at 5:18pm

    Anti,  I think Loiter and the Geofence could be done fairly easy by the developers that have worked on the rover code.  Just give it a bit of time.  Are you listening Grant & Co. ;).  Dynamic Positioning would be much more involved. 

    Regards,

    David R. Boulanger

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