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Male


About Me:

Software engineer and creator of https://github.com/rospilot/rospilot


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I've been hacking on drones since 2013 and open-sourced my work on https://github.com/rospilot/rospilot


Hometown:

Bay Area, CA


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Christopher Berner commented on Christopher Berner's blog post Rospilot (open-source companion computer for APM)
"I haven't measured the exact power usage. Compared to the motors though, the Odroid is almost nothing.

Hmm, lets try again with the video (here's a direct link in case it doesn't work:…"
Nov 3, 2015
Christopher Berner commented on Christopher Berner's blog post Rospilot (open-source companion computer for APM)
"@Patrick, ya for sure. It shows up as a V4L2 device, and the best place to get started is the example code that Samsung published (git://git.infradead.org/users/kmpark/public-apps). You can take a look at the code I wrote to use the encoder too…"
Nov 2, 2015
Christopher Berner commented on Christopher Berner's blog post Rospilot (open-source companion computer for APM)
"@Tae, here you go!

On-board video recordingVideo was transcoded live and recorded on-board with a Odroid U3, using the MFC hardware acceleration
Posted by Rospilot on Monday, November 2, 2015"
Nov 2, 2015
Christopher Berner commented on Christopher Berner's blog post Rospilot (open-source companion computer for APM)
"@Roberto, not yet. I'll try to make one.

@Pierre, it uses the same mavlink-ros library that mavros uses. I've been thinking of switching to mavros for the communication with the APM.

@Hugues, ROS (http://www.ros.org/) is a library for writing…"
Nov 2, 2015
Christopher Berner commented on Christopher Berner's blog post Rospilot (open-source companion computer for APM)
"Thanks! :)"
Nov 1, 2015
Christopher Berner replied to Nelson Hom's discussion I want to send fpv live feed video to phones.
"I created software to run on a companion computer for the APM that does this (https://github.com/rospilot/rospilot). It's open-source and runs on a single board computer. It transcodes the video to H264 and streams over Wifi. Lemme know what you…"
Nov 1, 2015
Christopher Berner posted a blog post
Rospilot (https://github.com/rospilot/rospilot) is an open-source companion computer for the APM that handles higher level functionality, like running an on-board Wifi access point, providing a web interface, and live H264 recording and streaming.…
Nov 1, 2015