Came across this very interesting article on the register
"A British-led Japan-based group is building a free-software-powered flying robot for use by disaster relief organisations – and at its heart is tech darling the Raspberry Pi.
There are lots of uses for the £30 Pi, from an educational device to a media player, if you can get hold of one of the boards. OpenRelief is planning something rather more ambitious: to use the credit card-sized computer as the brain of an autonomous flying drone – not as a killer robot, for once, but to help save lives instead."
More of the article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/raspberry_pi_drone/
Comments
Man, they copied my paint job....:)
is it a skywalker frame?? nice paintjob :)
@mike if i get a chance to talk to one of thier team members on Thursday shall share all the insights that i have gathered, i wouldn't be suprised if we found someone like Karl Lattimer from Openrelief on diydrones ;)
Nice. Looks like they are using the HK FPV 168 airframe? I hope they have reinforced it, it won't be robust enough for this kind of work otherwise.
It will still use Arduplane to control the plane "Control of the aircraft is a separate system, based around an Arduino microcontroller board and the ArduPlane software from the DIYDrones community."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/raspberry_pi_drone/
;) would be meeting him on thursday if all goes well, shall report back on status of the project...
Yep we noted them last week, very good at PR me thinks