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Chris, this is your best talk yet. Perfect for the RC group. Take this talk and add more about building your own parts with 3D printers. (Maybe someone else did that talk at AMA.) But but the two together and you can explain the future to anyone.
J, That's funny with the Berretta product name crossover. The world is running out of unique names at a rapid pace :-) I've had to re-train myself to google, it seem like one or two more descriptors makes a lot of difference..
I feel like we're in a reversion back to hunter/gather ways -- with the open-source boom underway. It's no longer just a matter of going to the store and picking something off the shelf. Now it's more akin to spending lot's of hours in the forest; getting to know the sights and smells; learning without a lesson plan.
So much cool s..t going on though, it's really worth the extra work. We're building robots!
J, The credit is in the name -- PX4.
https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/px4/start
Here is how they describe themselves:
PX4 is an open-source, open-hardware project aiming at providing a high-end autopilot to the academic, hobby and industrial communities (BSD licensed) at low costs and high availability. It is backed by the PIXHAWK Project of the Computer Vision and Geometry Lab of ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), the Autonomous Systems Lab and the Automatic Control Laboratory as well from a number of excellent invididuals (Contact and Credits) and available from 3D Robotics and international 3DR distributors.
I`m pretty new to all this stuff.I am a still`s photographer/photojournalist and wanted RC platform to shot wildlife and are interested in some of the features of the controller for my project.
Every time I look at blogs,posts and videos I just keep getting ideas for future builds eg quad,plane etc especially for NGO work in developing countries.
Look forward to seeing what is coming up.
J: No, it's exactly what I said before. Designed by ETH, made (manufacturered) and sold by 3DR.
Great talk, Chris--very interesting. Thanks. And thanks for posting, Mark.
PX4 was designed by the ETH team and is manufactured by 3DR.
John: we hope to be posting a video in a few weeks ;-)
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