OpenPilot Open Souce UAV Platform

ThomasB June 21, 2011 at 11:54am

In think the OpenPilot Project is a very interesting example of open source development.
The software design is very professional, but there are some members which have a religious like idea about their non profit system. The hardware is open too, in theorie. But they hide the present design to beware become copied before the build of the sensational cathedral is finished.

I think when they are ready with their cathedral (some day) they will be a lot more relaxed.

Dano June 21, 2011 at 11:42am

Amusing to say the least ;) Must be the best thing invented since beer ^.^ Too bad there is 'no product' to test against the other boards :|

Mike June 21, 2011 at 11:28am

All starting to sound like the PicoPilot thread - lol!

'Time for bed!' said Zebedee..

Paul Mather June 21, 2011 at 9:09am

This is the first anyone's heard of it I guess.... maybe Jordi or Chris can confirm or deny his claims.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18481551&postcoun...

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Sgt Ric June 21, 2011 at 8:42am

OpenPilot is a member here and I don't remember any mention at all of any failure to attribute credit.

Paul Mather June 21, 2011 at 8:33am

I'm very confused by this statement as well "...in fact did all the development for the GPS GTOP that DIYDrones took without any credit, we don't use it as it sucks based on our testing. They lack the knowledge to even add a ground plane for the antenna which makes it much worse still." - Dankers

Are they talking about the board the GPS sits on? I know they didn't do ANY of the development on the actual GPS unit. Remzibi's been using this GPS for several years. I also don't see their name on the binary protocol anywhere...so I assume it's just the PCB he's talking about. I can't say for sure that he's right since he has no hardware for sale and he abandoned it already....so how exactly did DIYdrones pirate this mythical development?

Faisal Shah June 21, 2011 at 8:08am

I'm a big fan of DIYDrones, as well as OpenPilot. Both are fantabulastic projects. I am a little worried though about the negative attitude of OpenPilot towards DIYDrones. They claim that DIYDrones used some of the design from OpenPilot (which is great! share, improve, share again!), but did not credit the OpenPilot project. Is there any truth to this, or has there been a misunderstanding? I would really like to see more good-will, and co-operation between the two projects. There should be no issues in one project using code, hardware, and ideas from another project - and it should be encouraged. Even if some projects are for-profit, as long as they comply with the license terms, release source code, and contribute back to the community - what's the issue? If someone has beef with that, they should license their work differently.

Anywhoo, rock on DIYDrones and OpenPilot!

Paul Mather June 21, 2011 at 7:44am

Here's some interesting reading about the attitudes and timeframe of OpenPilot.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18481551&postcoun...

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18481596&postcoun...

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18481707&postcoun...

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18483171&postcoun...

OpenPilot.org domain was registered November 2009.

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Paul Mather June 21, 2011 at 7:02am

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