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Pixhawk is Ready for Takeoff

Posted by Sue Rosenstock on December 12, 2013 at 2:00pm

After months of rigorous testing, we are pleased to announce that our Pixhawk autopilot is now in production and ready to ship.

Designed by the PX4 open-hardware project and manufactured by 3D Robotics, Pixhawk delivers industry-leading performance and flexibility for controlling any autonomous vehicle.

Our new Pixhawk represents a significant improvement over our standard APMs, offering enhanced reliability, robust power, a broad range of USB power options and a second sensor port – for a dual IMU system. The second sensor chip not only provides redundancy, but enables the combination of different sensor inputs.

This release follows months of beta-testing by the IRIS-Developer community. Based on their feedback, we improved the noise immunity of the power supplies and added the MPU 6000 to supplement the LSM303D accelerometer.

We are grateful to the community for their valuable feedback.

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John December 25, 2013 at 12:45pm

Awesome... Thank you for the update.
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Chris Anderson December 23, 2013 at 7:05pm

Latest production update: we're still shipping ~90 a day and about 400 have already gone out. At this rate, we should be caught up with the backlog by the first week of Jan. The factory is running two shifts a day and weekends, although they will take off a few days over Christmas.
Nikolas K December 23, 2013 at 12:23pm

Cancelled my order, due to the availability (or lack of it). Thankfully the refund was hassle free and really quick. Thanks to 3Drobotics team. Will surely get it later, naza for now ;)
Rana December 23, 2013 at 10:03am

Emin, pls be specific, to whom you are addressing.
Emin Bu December 23, 2013 at 2:36am

Answer is

:NO!
Rana December 23, 2013 at 12:39am

Sue Rosenstock, It is very unfortunate that the lowest shipping (less than 10$) option not available for Pixhawk.

I purchased APM2.5 from 3DR, few months back (my order was #31990) and the shipping was charged 7.04US$.

Why that low shipping option has vanished at 3DR ? Sparkfun still have that low shipping option for small items that are same as that of Pixhawk and APM in size & weight.

Can we still get that low shipping option ?
Martin Bellomo December 22, 2013 at 7:49pm

I want to buy an X8. Is there a chance to have it with pixhawk instead of APM 2.6 ?
John McGrath December 22, 2013 at 8:51am

Wonder when the chinese will have a knock off for half the price?
John December 22, 2013 at 7:32am

If I ordered on dec 10 when should I expect the hawk? Not sure who else to ask since the order confirmation was from a DONOTREPLY email address. Thank you
Crashpilot1000 December 21, 2013 at 5:38pm

Yes and the best thing about the 3dr shop is, that even if there is a severe hardwareproblem you can be sure that you are not informed on the sales page. You are lucky if you stumble upon those threads: http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/ac3-1-rc5-spi-speed-problem. Crucial safety is of absolutely no concern for the shop, even the wiki site "http://ardupilot.com/" has no safety corner.