Just a quick announcement that the ArduCopter project has been boarded by (friendly) pirates! The "ArduPirates" refers to a great group of quad hackers over on RC Groups who have been making many useful additions and fixes to official ArduCopter code. Now that the ArduCopter team has released the "NG" branch as ArduCopter RC2 and is moving on to the next version (code named ArduCopter Mega, or ACM) that's built on the mature ArduPilot Mega codebase, we've asked the ArduPirates to take over further development of NG. They've already made great leaps, and you can expect lot of energy and innovation there.
As ArduPirates NG versions are tested and documented, we'll release them as official ArduCopter releases as zip files on the official site.
So going forward, once ACM is released, there will be two well-maintained codebases to chose from. They'll share the same core libraries, so you can be confident in core functionality. But they have different "flavors" and styles, and hopefully lead to healthy cross-fertilization.
Please see this post by Norbert Machinek (Captain of the Pirates) for more details.
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Thx guys!
Jani: what I need? Hmmm ... what about a full featured brain since I'm the only Pirate without one. ;-)
Nah ... just kidding: I'll order a new one as soon as the hole in my wallet is gone.
Happy holidays and an incredible new year!
Norbert
Welcome back Norbert, nice to see you aaring here again. Let us know if there is anything you need :)
Norbert welcome, thank you to share your experiment.
I am your councils also on RC group, I build also a wii quadcopter.
++DODY
Best news out of this place for a long while :) Best of luck Norbert.
Sweet didn't knew about that thread!! I already converted each ESC, the only thing missing for me was the code for the APM, i will now continue with my project! thanks a lot!!
There's already Peter Seddon's Octo Build flying modded ESCs.
If you don't mind DIY you can convert standard ESCs yourself.
Go here and scroll down a bit to where the octo is displayed. There's a zip file which contains code and instructions.
Cool new's! BTW ESC I²C will be coming?! I'm a little bit loss here not know if there is a code yet for the APM , please light my new-b-ness jeje
Thx for the warm welcome (or should I say "hello again" in my case?)
Feels great to be part of something new!
@ Dan: Prepare to spend most of your sparetime flyin' & testin' when back! ;-)
Good news Chris .
ARGG all aboard the ArduCopter boat .
I`ll be gone on vacation until January , when I’m back I’m sure I’ll have a ton of testing options :D
NG was the version that was released last week as ArduCopter RC2. I'll clarify that in the post.