As a practicing DIY Drones member, I thought folks might like to see some real world testing of open-source flying robots. No flashy, over-promised, marketing hype. No large corporate backed interests, just a motivated engineer, some great open-source UAV systems and many, many hours of time invested in building safer flying robots.
I've started to capture daily videos on Periscope as I continue to work on these system. The videos are only up for 24 hours, so if you're interested, you will need to consume them before they time out. I try to do at least one video a day focused on flying robots. My Periscope and Twitter handle is hooperfly@epmuav if folks are interested. I'll include a link to today's flights below.
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@jack_crossfire I don't know. I try to avoid those kinds of situations. :) Working to improve robotic flight systems as part of an open-source community is pretty satisfying.
How much is your valuation?
@Hugues sometimes I do post videos to YouTube. Periscope is more like a daily video blog and allows me to give folks a peak into daily activities without the overhead of uploading, editing videos for YouTube. You can view my YouTube videos here:
Link to HooperFly YouTube Videos
For the daily videos that expire after 24 hours on Periscope, you can access them through my Twitter account:
Link to HooperFly Periscope Videos
Hope this helps.
Pls post your video on YouTube or other service that does not expire after such a short time. Link "expired" again...
Hi Randy, Yes, Paparazzi GCS scales well for multi-aircraft flight. It's easy to build dynamic, real-time controls that span sets of aircraft using `papgets`. Users can customize/optimize the UI to fit their flight needs. I have had great success using Paparazzi.
On another note, the link to the flying robots video has expired. Here is a link to today's multiple flying robot tests:
LINK TO TODAY"S FLIGHTS
Folks can keep tabs on future videos by following me on Periscope or Twitter as mentioned in the post. My handle is hooperfly@epmuav
Upward and onward.
Nice. So this is using Papparzzi. I've heard they've had multi-vehicle support for a long time which is great. The multivehicle thing in general really interesting (I've done some testing myself with ardupilot).
Not sure what you think but I think the next steps are probably mostly on the ground station software side to allow the user to more easily control them individually and in groups.
Edit: looking at your video it looks like the GCS software has some strong multi-vehicle support with a nifty way to send the same message to all vehicles.