Yesterday I received one of the first updated Gluonpilot 2's from Tom Pycke in Belgium,
The Gluonpilot is an open source project created by Tom and the new GP2 is a completely new hardware design but firmware will run on both new and old Gluonpilots.
I have been flying the Gluonpilot extensively this season and I especially like the Ground Control Station which allows route updates during flight and displays everything live in Google Earth.
Gluonpilot2 specifications from the www.gluonpilot.com web-page;
MPU-6000 based
All needed sensors (including the switched power supply) are on the main board
On-board USB connector
2 voltage inputs for batteries
1 current sensor input
Extendable: all pins are available on the extension board (I2C, SPI, GPS, ...)
Rewritten OSD firmware with unique features: wind indicator, current navigation block name
High-Efficiency switched voltage regulator at 2.5Mhz
Top quality components for optimum performance: X7R capacitors & 1% resistors
Enough solder jumpers & in- & output ports to customize it to your needs
Comments
Scott - you may get a used GP1 which has the same funcionality for half the price (e.g. $100) which is not bad for a full featured autopilot.
Mohammed -the only difference between the 6000 and 6050 that I can see is the logic supply voltage of the 6050 can be 1.8v but I dont know if there are other differences/advantages of the 6050?
why not MPU 6050?
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