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Chris Appleton commented on Kirill's blog post OpenPilot Open Souce UAV Platform
"Call it out then. Compare posts between these three places.

On diydrones here.
On rcgroups here - http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1454007
On Openpilot forum here -…"
Jun 21, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Traditional helicopters now supported by ArduCopter2, too!
"Jani Hirvinen:
As far as I can tell (downloaded their latest Windows binary installer) they also support helis, tons of multis, and fixed wings all from the same firmware and configuration utility.

Chris Anderson:
I guess that depends on the…"
Jun 21, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Kirill's blog post OpenPilot Open Souce UAV Platform
"You need to be careful to see a difference between Openpilot and Dankers. I have been watching the Openpilot project recently and it seems they are very professional and have done a great job.

But Dankers is a different story. I am a psychologist…"
Jun 21, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Traditional helicopters now supported by ArduCopter2, too!
"*edit - sorry, meant to say that google thinks they were first http://imgur.com/7kvXP"
Jun 21, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Traditional helicopters now supported by ArduCopter2, too!
"These guys seems to think they were the first: http://www.openpilot.org/products/openpilot-coptercontrol-platform/"
Jun 21, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New DIY Drones product preview: the PhoneDrone board for Android!
"I must be confused. You said that the phone would not be a good platform for the autopilot code which I would generally agree with. But then you say that you include PPM input because autopilot software running on the phone would need it?

Just two…"
May 15, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New DIY Drones product preview: the PhoneDrone board for Android!
"Chris Anderson:

Thank you for answering my question. Somebody said that I was trying to catch you in something, but that was not the case. I was a bit confused as everything I had found indicated that APM was not using a real-time operating system.…"
May 14, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New DIY Drones product preview: the PhoneDrone board for Android!
"Chris Anderson you say that APM which I assume means ArduPilot Mega, is better left to a dedicated board with a real-time OS. I was trying to find if APM uses a real-time OS and could only find this comment…"
May 13, 2011
Chris Appleton commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New DIY Drones product preview: the PhoneDrone board for Android!
"Looks almost exactly like this http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-announces-android-open-ac... How much involvement are you saying diydrones dev team had in that?"
May 12, 2011