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  • Darren May 19, 2011 at 7:48pm
    as most countries will adopt strict uav import restrictions i feel localized manufacturing is needed in our efforts to overcome roadblocks in our path to utilize the sky without leaving the ground. billions of people would love to fly like the birds ;)
  • Ho-Chung Chang May 19, 2011 at 6:06pm
    Open Source of Ardupilot mega is good way to study uav, enjoy the uav, and improve uav by myself. Not for plagiarize to earn money.
    There are so many uav controllers, we can make it base them for sale. why copy? This will never progress.
  • Patrick Egan May 19, 2011 at 4:55pm
    Wow... that's a weird turn of events? We may very well see a $100 or even $50 Chinese UAV.
  • Norbert Machinek May 19, 2011 at 3:41pm

    That's the way it goes...

    The MK was cloned long ago - illegally of course since it isn't open source. Sold for a third of the regular price and then imported to the US. 
    This surely harmed the margin as it will do in the case of DIYDrones.

    I'm pretty sure the cloners had the files for months and just pushed the button when the AC2 code went public...

     

  • Wayne Dancer May 19, 2011 at 9:03am
    Hey, you and Lady Ada have something in common.  She had a breadboard shield she designed show up on DealExtreme with no credit going to her (all she asks).  I just wonder if this falls under ITARS.  That is the one downside of open-source on projects like this.
  • hazy May 19, 2011 at 8:30am
    I believe even in US a man can get trouble if he is caught flying a drone upon a military base. The real problem in China is that there are too many people in everywhere and it's not easy to find a open space for flying.
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    Mark Colwell May 19, 2011 at 4:01am
    DIY Drones has made the big time with a Chinese (clone) distributor. Were will this be next year? I hope to see a new APM 1260 with IMU, GPS & OSD for $100 USD sent to USA from DealExtream !
  • Kirill May 19, 2011 at 2:08am
    Matthias and Chris, in addition to your ideas I would like to offer my help too. I can contribute to do the translations into Russian.
  • hazy May 19, 2011 at 1:27am
    The Google code support Localization, read this article please: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/WikiSyntax#Localizing_Wiki_Co...
  • Matthias Badaire May 19, 2011 at 1:02am

    I was definitely thinking APM 2 as I don't do quads yet, If you give me the right I can start today.

    However should we duplicate all the pages with suffix _LG for instance or is there a feature in google code to do this in a more scalable way ?

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