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:
That's correct. It's a stand-alone IMU+AHRS. It will be built into ArduPilot Mega, but is not replacing the thermopiles on the current ArduPilot. We will have a different gryo-based solution coming for the current board later.
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Is not a great deal?
@David, FTA: "Includes the pin headers and all the sensors needed, some assembly is required.", so I believe it includes both the expansion boards.
I agree with Aaron that it would be good to clarify how the ArduIMU you just linked:
ArduIMU http://store.diydrones.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=KT-ArduIM...
relates to the two boards available from sparkfun:
ADXL330/LISY300 v2 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9372
and,
LISY300 Breakout Board http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8955
So do duplicate the ArduIMU we need:
1 of the ArduIMU board,
1 of the Expandable IMU Breakout board, and
2 of the LISY300 breakout boards?
Or does the ArduIMU board come with the other breakout boards included for $99.
Dave
Is it necessary to buy the ArduIMU in order to obtain the code? Or will the code be released separately?
Cheers
http://store.diydrones.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=KT-ArduIM...
That's correct. It's a stand-alone IMU+AHRS. It will be built into ArduPilot Mega, but is not replacing the thermopiles on the current ArduPilot. We will have a different gryo-based solution coming for the current board later.
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