I've been working on an open source autopilot for a while now. It's not finished yet but it's getting close. The board is quite small - about the size of an ESC - and weighs 10g.
Features:* Plugs directly into any R/C receiver - up to nine control channels.* Can control up to ten servos.* Combined GPS/IR leveler board makes installation easy.* Barometric altimeter.* microSD card for flight plans and data storage.* Fully open source software. You can improve it or change it however you like.* Easily reprogrammed via USB with no need for a special programmer.* Powerful on-board flight scripting language.* Optional radio link to the ground.* Optional 9-axis IMU.* Many expansion options including I2C, SPI, etc.* Powerful ARM7 processorBy the way this is an open source project - not a commercial project - so please don't ask me for release dates or free samples!The autopilot software is at:http://code.google.com/p/flyingfox/My original (kinda old) build thread is at:http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=734791
Ohnoes you are moving out of Australia! :(
Hope you find success wherever you end up all the same. :)
The commercialization sounds pretty reasonable, as the older boards are made available I am sure the community will contribute features that will probably assist the commercial versions.
@Joseph: It's not quite working yet - and I'm moving country to work on autopilots commercially so I probably won't have a chance to work on it for a few weeks.
@Noth666: My general plan is to release the hardware myself. I'll make previous-generation hardware designs available as open source while I sell the latest generation myself. This allows me to make a little money to cover the (substantial) development costs.
@joseph: I plan to make the hardware available for purchase if Zik does not object, since it is based on his design. I have the gear etc to make these quite easily (I have a small company set up on purpose to be able to).
Indeed UAV Playground looks quite pretty hehe.
@Noth666 Sounds like a great idea, if anyone can get some of these assembled I am interested in buying one. ^.^.
Wowza awesome stuff, I think I'll have to make a mod of this to use some slightly different sensors and see if I can get it working properly - I've been waiting for something exactly like this for some time.
But I think for the IMU IDG-500+ISZ-500+mma7361, and then airspeed and altitude from 2xSCP1000 would be the bomb. Working on a mod of it already, PCB layout still in progress.
Zik, your project is interesting. Please let me know if you need some information about the UAV Playground or if you need a specific extension/interface.
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Hope you find success wherever you end up all the same. :)
The commercialization sounds pretty reasonable, as the older boards are made available I am sure the community will contribute features that will probably assist the commercial versions.
@Noth666: My general plan is to release the hardware myself. I'll make previous-generation hardware designs available as open source while I sell the latest generation myself. This allows me to make a little money to cover the (substantial) development costs.
Have you had a chance to verify the 1.0 board as working correctly?
@Noth666 Sounds like a great idea, if anyone can get some of these assembled I am interested in buying one. ^.^.
But I think for the IMU IDG-500+ISZ-500+mma7361, and then airspeed and altitude from 2xSCP1000 would be the bomb. Working on a mod of it already, PCB layout still in progress.
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