Features include:
- Return to Launch with a flick of your RC toggle switch or a mouse click in the graphical Ground Station
- Unlimited 3D GPS waypoints
- Built-in camera control
- Fully-scriptable missions
- One-click software load, and easy point-and-click configuration in the powerful Mission Planner. NO programming required!
- Replay recorded missions and analyze all the data with a graphing interface
- Supports two-way telemetry with Xbee wireless modules.
- Point-and-click waypoint entry or real-time mission commands while the UAV is in the air
- Fly with a joystick or gamepad via your PC--no need for RC control!
- Built-in failsafe will bring your aircraft home in the case of radio loss
All instructions and software are here.
APM 2 is an open source, Arduino-compatible, pro-quality autopilot. It is the most advanced IMU-based open source autopilot available today, and provides an entire UAV control system with scriptable missions with 3D waypoints, in-flight uploading of commands and powerful ground station software.
APM 2 supports any kind of of vehicle with a one-click change of code. Available code include ArduPlane (fixed wing), ArduCopter (rotary wing), ArduRover (ground vehicles) and more.
Everything you need to create an ArduPlane UAV:
* APM 2.5 autopilot with GPS ($179)
* [Optional] Telemetry kit ($75).
You'll also need a at least a five-channel RC radio setup, a soldering iron, a mini USB cable and of course something that flies! (We're partial to the SkyFun delta wing (right) and
Bixlee 2 powered glider (left) or its equivalents ourselves).
Resources:
Manual
Source code/firmware
Note: ArduPilot Mega requires no programming, but it's open source and you're welcome to modify it if you'd like. If you are going to play with the code, you can use the free Arduino IDE to edit and upload the code to the ArduPilot board.
Comments
I am contemplating, if I should go ahead and buy the ArduPilot Mega + IMU shield or go with the ArduPilot with shield and IMU+? I already have the Ardu Pilot and shield. I would like have a fully featured setup (speed sensor, altimeter, magnetometer, etc), but also fully tested setup. My understanding is that the ArduPilot Mega is only on its first version and not all the sensors are functional. Is it worth to wait another month or so and save my money until the ArduPilot Mega becomes as stable and full featured (sensor interface) as ArduPilot, or that that will be still a ways off?
Thank you for your advice.
Tom
Before you send it back, please check your soldering carefully. All the oilpans are tested before they go out using with this same test, and if it hadn't passed it wouldn't have been sent to you. So something has changed in your assembly, and the usual culprit is a solder bridge or cold joint in one of the connectors you've soldered on.
If you still can't find the problem, contact the store to get a RMA.
Attached is a picture of CLI test mode -> gyro. My values are just all over the place.
Moving the board shows no change in acceleration/gyro values.
Everything else seems to be working now after I got a new APM since the one I got from SparkFun was defective (ground planes weren’t connected somehow).
Anyone have any other ideas before I try to send it back, and if not, how do I go about returning this one?
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