"@Rob, yes, it has done extremely well indeed. Thank you for pointing that out. "

"From the 2009 archives on the Paparazzi Wiki: "Paparazzi was a big success at the 2009 UAV Outback Challenge held at Kingaroy Airport, Queensland, Australia, Sep. 28-30. Team “Look mAh, no hands!” representing Brisbane Grammar School, won the ‘Robot…"

"Incredible, just how far things have come in so short a time. So many choices. My inner geek couldn't be happier to be alive today to play with all these things. "

"@Rob: I said: " I helped a grade school class get their hardware and they took first price their initial go at it some years ago" 

I did not say "won" Outback Challenge. There are many different sub-contests. It seems your dismissing their…"

"@Fnoop,
Yep, it's a new thing. I have admiration for you for trying to follow the manual. If you
One of the longest going discussions in the RCGroups UAV area is one I did where I did what you did and simply wrote down my experience. Some Paparazzi…"

"@Fnoop: "Personally I 'cobble together' uavs because my interest is in the technology and I can't afford pre-built systems at the rate I crash them" 
This made me smile, that is exactly how I started, what makes Paparazzi so compelling to me. I can…"

"That's really neat. I really could have used this on my sailboat last year in the Caribbean. Reminds me of a simpler, easier to build OpenROV. "

"I look forward to the day honest questions are not taken as attacks and responded to as such.
Now that 3DR is not paying people to develop the free stuff lets see how this plays out. 
This demo shows a good start. Way to go. There's a lot of work…"

"Excellent display of friendly use of a drone for the betterment of us all. Now if only the mainstream news channels could show this sort of thing not military uses. This is a good start I suppose. Way to go.
FWIW: John is already up North now in the…"

"Looks like fun. Is it global warming or do they normally wear t-shirts at the South Pole? "

"Actually that's a great point. That IMU would likely work quite well with the DCM code in Paparazzi. Several people are flying with the SparkFun sensor board since there is now a DCM module in Paparazzi to use sensor boards with Paparazzi."

"...a further analogy more closely to what you bring up Chris is if someone made an IMU that worked with ArduCopter that was not open source. Would it be correct to then claim the entire project is not open source? Of course not."

"I can shed light on this. Paparazzi Project is and always will be completely open source. However, it is also possible to have hardware that is compatible with Paparazzi that is not. If Lisa/L or the new IMU is or is not is has nothing to do with…"

"@RH1N0: Yes, it should fly the Lisa/L, Booz, I am going to connect it to a  TWOG and a KK MultiCopter myself. URL here: https://store.ppzuav.com/osc/product_info.php?products_id=129 (not sure how to put a URL in ning). 
No, I have not yet flown with…"

"@HK: yep, that's my site. Certs are a scam. In the beginning they were actually hard to get with lots of validation. Not anymore. It's just about the money now. JobyRobotics.com is the best place to get the latest. I have a lot of TWOG left so no…"