Rover Release 2.49 is OUT!

Grant Morphett May 17, 2015 at 3:17pm

Hi Melissa. Great to hear you building a model one first so you can get familiar with the systems. Your terminology is a little wonky :-) To clarify:

ArduPilot is an open software project. It runs on all sorts of hardware. APM2's, Pixhawks, LInux based auto pilots like PXF and Navio. The analogy is the microsoft windows operating system. You can run Windows on lots of different types of computers but its still Windows at the end of the day.

Yes, I recommend the pixhawk as I said its current technology. You will then be able to have a pixhawk in both your model RC and a pixhawk in your FarmDogg thus making your life easier through consistency.

Thanks, Grant.

Developer

Grant Morphett May 17, 2015 at 5:57am

No problem Melissa. I'd recommend a Pixhawk over an APM 2.6. The APM 2.6 is deprecated technology - in fact I couldn't find them on the 3DR Store any more. The Pixhawk is current technology. I need to update the Rover page to reflect this.

Anyway, here are the links in the 3DR store:

https://store.3drobotics.com/products/3dr-pixhawk?taxon_id=34

https://store.3drobotics.com/products/3dr-gps-ublox-with-compass?ta...

https://store.3drobotics.com/products/3dr-radio-915_mhz?taxon_id=34 (you need 2 of these)

Looking forward to seeing the F. Dogg in action!

Thanks, Grant.

Developer

Grant Morphett April 8, 2015 at 10:20pm

When you say path following do you mean like follow a painted white line or something else?

Thanks, Grant.