The evolution of the code, the improvements made by the development team and the passion that we are putting in all this public project is bearing fruits that much hoped for.
ArduCopter is reaching commercial products, offers even more potential at an affordable cost.
Roberto Navoni and Emile Castelnuovo by "Virtualrobotix Italia" was the pionieer of ARM platform for ArduCopter code with the powerfull “VR Brain” (in this video), the new “PX4” now ranks at the same level but delayed on the roadmap, although we are almost ready for the first official stable release, i will start my hard test this week.
This blog post is dedicated to people, like me, using heart and mind for this passion, and this video to Leonard for making Acro mode much better!
Just to say thanks to whole “ArduCopter Dev Team”, DIY Drone community, “3DRobotics”, “Virtualrobotix Italia” and all those who like me are following this project with the right spirit, that of fun and sharing experience… enjoy with ArduCopter!
Bests... Marco
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Not at the moment Peter, sorry.
I'm finishing my personal website, when ready put all them.
Hi Dave, follow the description of the video.
Thanks Jason! Yes, 2.9.1b branch (not ap_hal) but ported on VR Brain board.
Yes Jason this is a slightly modified version of the 2.9.1b. Navigation and attitude is the same, but we push a bit more on the mpu6000 with different gyro full scale, faster sampling and a 250Hz loop.
We have the current Arducopter master (AP_HAL) ready to be included in the main code base, but I would like it to get a little more testing and let you you guys work on next release before submitting the pull request.
Emile
Looks great Marco! I'll use this as a demo for friends who ask about Arducopter!
BTW, Is that the 2.9.1 branch?
Jason
I hope too... :P
On VR Brain the code now occupies 20% of its processing capacity.
Thanks AKcopter, VR Brain and PX4 use the same code of APM but with their 168 MHz are much faster, is not only a floating point hw acceleration, the result is a better correction and reaction on hard maneuvers and stabilization.
APM is also still capable of such performance, unfortunately suffers from a bit of weighting at the code level on the many features it has, its 16 MHz are stretched to the limit imho.
@Patrice: is not a problem... :P
@John: yes, is a tiny shrink tube!
Marco,
To fully test the ACCRO mode you should try LOOPING and BAREL. :)
I think it is just shrink tube.
I used it also on my GPS and have no issue at all. Plastic is transparent to GPS signal.
If you are really concerned you could just cut the shrinking tube a few millimiters inside the border of the antenna, so that only the ceramic top is not covered from the tube.
Emile
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