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ArduIMU V2 Demo (Video)

Posted by Jordi Muñoz on September 11, 2009 at 1:00pm

I have to be honest; i tried to kept this project as a little secret to void people waiting for it, so i have plenty of time to prototype. Not to mention that everything was running very slow because the school and we were moving the business to another location.I would like to give special thanks to Chris Anderson, Nathan Seidle (from SparkFun) and specially to William Premerlani, we've spent a great time together trying to adapt the code into Arduino Environment, a great experience for me (absolutely). Thank you Bill!The ArduIMU V2 is intended to be used for learning and general robotics, also will set the starting point for next incoming IMU based ArduPilot's (at the end of this year) and lot more! The code is based on the very well known Arduino Environment and is Open Source (of course!).The hardware consists on 3 axis accelerometers/gyroscopes, dual power regulator (3.3v and 5v), GPS port, an Atmega328@16mhz and a lot of status LED's.The code uses Direction Cosine Matrix code (By Bill Premerlani) and some other stuff extracted from ArduPilot (developed by me). You can read more about DCM here.The mass production is not clear yet, but the sensors can be purchased now from SparkFun or from our store. For now i will assemble just a few boards (ready to use) and sell them the next week (controller board with sensors) for around 100 bucks, sorry... For around $99 dlls. =) But being honest i will have to increase tiny bit the price to keep the DIYdrones store alive! Moving the business was kinda expensive.About the boards color, i will kindly ask Nate to change the color to blue because I'm unable to match his red (mine is more like orange). All the incoming boards from us will be blue anyway. =)The code will be released next week with the hardware. Please be patient. Thank you!Here is a demo video:
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  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz September 14, 2009 at 4:07pm
    Leo,

    Yes will be available at the store website. You can use paypal, credit card or wire transfer. Regards.
  • Leo Berkenbile September 14, 2009 at 2:41pm
    Will they be available at the store website, or will we need to call for the board? I would like to purchase one ASAP.
    Leo
  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz September 14, 2009 at 2:31pm
    Dave,

    The IMU will be available at the store here : store.diydrones.com. Thanks for your interest.
  • Dave Whittington September 14, 2009 at 1:26pm
    Jordi,
    I would like to order one - I purposely held off on getting the thermopiles so that I could start with the IMU. Wonderful effort by you - please send me email at whitav8@hotmail.com if I can please order one.
    Dave W.
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    Jordi Muñoz September 14, 2009 at 1:03pm
    Hello,

    @Unicorn, You can use Em406 but somebody (not me) will have to adapt the code. You can do almost copy paste from ardupilot. But using em406 will generate other bugs I'm not willing to take care off, that's why uBlox is the only one for me.

    @Caleb, This is not a shield for ArduPilot, is just an IMU board. =)
  • fefenin September 14, 2009 at 3:04am
    very good Jordi

    and i wish you to good work for the future...

    this is a cool project since IMU are not really the easy way to implement an autopilot
    sounds very professional

    regards
    fefenin
  • Aaron Buckner September 13, 2009 at 10:39pm
    @ unicorn, It should work as the uBlox adapter Jordi has made comes to an EM406A Connector. Though I cannot say for sure, I know They are thinking/planning on phasing the 406A out.
  • unicorn September 13, 2009 at 8:12pm
    Great work…………….

    Will it work with our existing EM406A GPS? (If not, is possible to modify cord for
    EM406A)

    Regards
  • Aaron Buckner September 13, 2009 at 4:22pm
    Do we need to send you an email or something I really want one of these boards! I bought the "Main" board a couple weeks ago right after I saw them on SFE.
  • Caleb M September 13, 2009 at 3:26pm
    very exciting, will this replace the shield currently in use on Ardupilot? i hope so :)
    all very exciting and if it replaces the shield then it would be cheaper! and better. $100 is a generous deal with all the time you put into it.
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