Last Saturday I attended Barcamp Antwerp in Belgium. The idea of a barcamp is that every attendee gives a presentation without to much preparation. I talked about my autopilot project.The presentation got featured on Slideshare, you can see it here:…
"You got a valid point.I can't argue with the fact that my method of fixing stuff to a plane for testing is ugly. But I did consider how to affix components to minimize stress in case of unwanted flight conditions (spiral dive, inverted flight,…"
"No, I also use the front/back part, but for this test I wasn't trying to test the stabilization part, so I just taped over the front/back sensors for ease of mounting.
I'm still playing with the stabilization algorithms. When I have more progress on…"
Today my autopilot hardware took the sky for the first time. Although this maiden flight was successful, its only a first step.The primary goal of the test was to see if the autopilot failsafe mechanisms operated fine:- no lockup on division by…
I have been working on/off on an autopilot to use in RC airplanes. The goal is to fully automatically take pictures of an object like a house, construction site, etc.I made the hardware in last year's Christmas holiday. During the year I spend a few…
I wanted to share this NMEA parser code, according to the DIYDrones "should I write a blog post" guide it is best to open a discussion topic about this. You will find the code in attachment.I have no idea if this is anywhere near efficient, but it…
"I'm also looking into a chip to embed on a dsPIC based autopilot board.
What I read on the Locosys website is that most of their chips do support UBX or sirf binary mode: http://www.locosystech.com/product.php?zln=en&id=1
If not, I have no problem…"