Cool new UAV-related products at Sparkfun

Sparkfun's new product showcase today has some cool gear that's useful for UAVs, In the video above, they demonstrate how to use the AttoPilot current sensors to measure voltage and current consumption in a quadcopter. APM supports this current sensor board, too, and now Sparkfun has several different versions for different currents:

The AttoPilot boards provide a simple solution for reading voltage and current into your microcontroller. Now in addition to the 90A version, we also have 45A and 180A versions as well. Voltage and current values are easily read into your favorite microcontroller and we've included example code for Arduino on the product pages.

Sparkfun has also updated its "9DoF" IMU board (below) to use the new Invensense 3000-series gyro, which combines XY and Z into one chip to make for a smaller board.

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Chris Anderson June 3, 2011 at 1:20pm

simon: no, it doesn't run the APM code. It's an older product that runs some simple AHRS code that Jordi wrote several years ago. It's just an IMU, not an autopilot. It's just got an Atmega328 processor, so there's not enough memory to run much else.
simonl June 3, 2011 at 1:15pm

Where does the 9DOF IMU "sit" in the DIYd gadget line-up. I see Sparkfun say it was created with Jordi's help. Does it run the same code as APM? What are the advantages/disadvantages of it compared with APM & oilpan?

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