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Tom P posted a blog post
A year and a half after its first autonomous flight, the gluonpilot finally has a powerful ground control station.  It borrows functionality of both the paparazzi ground control station (navigation blocks) and micropilot. Mission planning can be…
Sep 16, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gluonpilot first impressions
"Sorry Chris I didn't get your last question earlier.
Output 2 is the aileron, why would you want to assign it to anything else?"
Apr 1, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gluonpilot first impressions
"@Chris: basically you have 8 PWM outputs. The contents of each channel depends on the "mixing" type selected in the Control configuration tab page of gluonconfig."
Mar 8, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gluonpilot first impressions
"Thanks for the review Chris!
Let me answer some of your questions:
- It supports 8 channels out (and not 5 :-) )
- It supports 6 channels in, but the "RTF-kit" only has 4 wires because the currently autopilot only needs 4 inputs (pitch, roll, motor,…"
Mar 7, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Real Time Operating Systems for autopilots [UPDATED]
"@Curt: You will need to look at the vTaskDelayUntil function"
Dec 23, 2009
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Real Time Operating Systems for autopilots [UPDATED]
"@Curt:

It's actually a lot simpler. You just tell the scheduler to run this function once every 10ms (for example). The scheduler does the rest (no matter how long your function takes to execute - assuming that your function finished in less than…"
Dec 22, 2009
Tom P commented on William Premerlani's blog post UAV DevBoard is back in stock
"@Bill,

I made a design with the LISY in it myself, but decided not to make a prototype because of these warnings I read. Personally, I can not think of a reason why the higher sample rate would make any difference, mainly because the vibrating mass…"
May 8, 2009
Tom P commented on William Premerlani's blog post UAV DevBoard is back in stock
"The LISY300 is not fit for quadrocopters. On the German UAV forums they have been comparing every gyro on the market, and the LISY300 was considered the poorest performer, mainly due to its vibrating mass being in the lower kHz region, similar to…"
May 2, 2009
Tom P left a comment for Koen Delvaux
"Nog een Belg die werk aan een autopiloot? :-)

Groetjes,

Tom"
Nov 10, 2008
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Introducing ArduPilot: the world's cheapest autopilot!
"Why not a dsPic? If you start from my code the board will be 50% smaller :-)"
May 15, 2008