Help wanted/partner wanted for interesting project

Posted by Chris Rodriguez on March 20, 2017 at 12:51pm

Hi all!

I've just come across the User Group and really like its layout. I'm hoping I can find some help here.

I'm currently working on a project at home and have designed a "drone boat" that will be autonomous and controlled via GPS coordinates. I've built the boat and have the power set up ready and it will run using Ardupilot Mega and Raspberry Pi for various applications. I unfortunately don't have the skills, knowledge or experience to program the software. It's for this reason that I'm looking for someone who could help me out with the programming side of my project. I'd be happy to "hire" your time, credit you on my project or even bring you in as a partner on the project.

I'm based in the UK so ideally would like to find someone in the UK but am open to anyone with the relevant experience.

If anyone can help, please get in touch via a reply here or a private message as I am desperate to find an awesome programmer who is passionate about drones!

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon,

Chris

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  • stephan morf March 25, 2017 at 8:42am
    hi chris,
    excuse my late answer.
    no, not in the business.
    but i have 2 drones
    1) yunnec phatom g with a gopro cam.
    2) DIY-Drone: drone-body from tarot, flightcontroller and all the stuff from parallax
    but in switzerland we have strong laws and i'm to old

    now i have all parts engines, parallax-sensors, some arduino-dues
    and in the moment working on the software....
    i hope that i can begin working my boat
    regards nomad
    http://answer.no/
  • David Boulanger March 23, 2017 at 4:18am

    All the new firmware is supported by Pixhawk.  Runs four times as fast as APM and has a lot more memory. Redundant IMU's etc.  Do some research on Ardupilot.org.



    Chris Rodriguez said:

    Hi David,

    Thanks for your reply. Can I ask why you think Pixhawk might be a better choice? I always value opinions and alternative recommendations.

    Cheers,


    Chris

    David Boulanger said:

    What are you looking to do with it?  Pixhawk may be a better choice

    David

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  • Chris Rodriguez March 23, 2017 at 4:08am

    Hi Stephan,

    Thanks for the suggestion. Are you currently involved in drone tech?

    Thnks,

    Chris

    stephan morf said:

    hi

    i am new here.

    my name is stephan, fromswitzerland.

    have a look at parallax.inc (uk or usa) have flightcontroller , i think about us$ 60.-- (look there for ELEV-8-V3)

    its verry simple to work with this (you can , if you want buy ESC, brushless engings,  all things ...)

    stephan

  • stephan morf March 21, 2017 at 9:14am

    hi

    i am new here.

    my name is stephan, fromswitzerland.

    have a look at parallax.inc (uk or usa) have flightcontroller , i think about us$ 60.-- (look there for ELEV-8-V3)

    its verry simple to work with this (you can , if you want buy ESC, brushless engings,  all things ...)

    stephan

  • Chris Rodriguez March 21, 2017 at 4:41am

    Hi Craig,

    Thanks very much for that list! I will indeed check it out!

    Chris

    Craig Elder said:

  • Chris Rodriguez March 21, 2017 at 4:38am

    Hi David,

    Thanks for your reply. Can I ask why you think Pixhawk might be a better choice? I always value opinions and alternative recommendations.

    Cheers,


    Chris

    David Boulanger said:

    What are you looking to do with it?  Pixhawk may be a better choice

    David

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    Craig Elder March 20, 2017 at 1:06pm

    Please checkl http://ardupilot.org/ardupilot/docs/common-commercial-support.html 

    Commercial Support — ArduPilot documentation
  • David Boulanger March 20, 2017 at 12:58pm

    What are you looking to do with it?  Pixhawk may be a better choice

    David

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