Just came across this Pixhawk clone, so thought I would share.
http://witespyquad.gostorego.com/flight-controllers/rtfhawk-2-4.html
Ready to Fly Quads is a reputable distributor, and I have made a few purchases from them already. They already have a clone of the APM2.x, that has been somewhat successful. Will this new clone be just as good. for under $100USD, might be work a try.
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Monroe, don't get me wrong
I love the way it is right now and I will do everything I can to support the community even I'm not a programmer
great, just let do it :)
@Monroe
well, good luck with collecting your royalty fees. how about doing a innovative better product with better support and some extras on top. something a cloner won't do, I'm pretty sure their are ways of attracting people and make them pay a bit more but not double or triple. BTW, be proud to be cloned, its a sign the product is good :)
so lets see when the first IRIS or 3DR AERO will be cloned-----:-)
Monroe, what in the world are you on about?
Arduino = Processing IDE + avr-gcc + simple and easy to use function library for beginners.
The Processing.org IDE has no connection to Atmel what so ever, and they are all community driven projects.
The "Arduino" part is really just that last part. A small library of pre-made AVR functions made to be used by beginners. A simple library compared to for example the older established avr-libc. So you see, there was not much work that had to be done to get the Arduino base system up and running. And thanks to the simple to use IDE combined with good timing and low priced hardware it then exploded in popularity. This lead to community members contributing more drivers for external hardware, which again helped feeding the popularity even more.
What Atmel can take credit for it creating low cost 8-bit hardware optimized to be used with high-level C compilers. PIC never understood that hand written assembler was dead, until much to late in the game.
And Parallax has always been the weird duckling offering products that are too niche and often more educational then practical.
so what we're going to answer this guy??
if your board is genuine click"here" if not click "here"
http://diydrones.com/group/apmusergroup/forum/topics/arduplane-limi...
... and of course the marketing... Atmel never marketed their products explicitly to hobbyists or published a ton of easy to follow beginner's howtos :).
Yes, it was...
As I said, PICs are around at least since the mid-90s and their toolchain was available. And somewhen I think in 2003 or 2004 I bought an Atmel USBISP Mk. II and could download AtmelStudio for free from Atmels website.
The Arduino project didn't start before 2005 and became really successful - when - 2008?
The toolchain is not the success of Arduino. The success of Arduino is the combination of boards which make tinkering easy, shields and that everything works together and has a great support system.
For success, the toolchain doesn't need to be OSS as long as it's free.
...if somebody finds a really easy way to program those things... I never could wrap my head around them.
Yeah, but that's what all µP manufacturer's do... The PIC toolchain is also freely available (although I'm not sure if it's OSS) and PICs are also pretty popular among the more "nerdy" µP hobbyists. And PICs are also pretty popular at least since the mid-90s.
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