"@Rob Just the fact of reduced jitter is already good enough. It's a "custom digital protocol". Could be anything else like hsuart or can (except the latter has the added benefit of being differential)"
"@Julien, I had a very similar comment on the blog post itself when it was done. Interestingly I went there now and my comment vanished. I find it pretty disrespectful to remove comments that makes no attacks and just contributes on the technical…"
"Shawn: up-board actually IS the robotics kit. The picture in the post is the Aero Platform, the robotics kit is the UP board + realsense + probably-something-more (but I don't know what they will bundle in there)."
"That is bad... bad driver that needs fixing probably. The platform that I usually stress the HW is a MinnowBoard Max and I don't have such issues. The other Linux boards I usually run the flight stack alone or with very little processing.
"Last but most important is that this configuration is much safer than a all-in approach. Bear in mind that most of the stuff running on the companion computer is highly experimental and prone to crash... I this happens, the flight system -autopilot-…"
"Nice board!
I'm also regularly online on gitter and skype. Or you can talk to me by email (lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com): since you are in China I know the timezone difference will make it difficult to chat by other means."