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If you have programming skills (VB, Delphi or C) and you will share your software codes with everyone, this products for you.
Buy it from Here: http://www.flytron.com/56-compufly-u...converter.html

Shipping is $3.5, total price is $4.5

I'm already writing my own software with PC based headtracker and
DirectX Joystick control.
The CompuFly will on stocks for everyone after i finished my default
software.

This is my software test video:

To Developers,
* CompuFly coming with Futaba Square Plug, this deal only for Futaba
users!
* Sample Delphi sourcecode here: http://www.flytron.com/pdf/compufly_sample.zip
* Protocol very simple:
to setting the output channel count:
'SET'+chr(11)+chr(0)+chr(channel_count)

to setting a servo position:
'SET'+chr(channel_number)+chr(high_byte_of_micro_s
econds)+chr(low_byte_of_micro_seconds)

Who is the first?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8517726.stm

Unlicensed Merseyside Police drone grounded

Police on Merseyside have had to ground their new drone over concerns it was being used illegally without a licence.

Merseyside Police said they had been unaware they needed a licence to fly the £40,000 remote control helicopter fitted with a CCTV.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it needed to be consulted over any use of the drones, that can fly up to 400ft and reach speeds of 30mph.

The force's new drone was used last week to catch a car thief in thick fog.

All unmanned aircraft, not just ones that weigh 15lb (7kg) or more, now have to be licensed to conduct aerial surveillance work after the law changed at the start of the year.

They need CAA permission to fly within 164ft (50m) of people and within 492ft (150m) of buildings.

The CAA said any breach in regulations, which came into force on 1 January 2010, would be "treated seriously".

Bit ironic if you ask me. Its a wonder that NO ONE in their UAS team were aware of the regs?

Flight Stabilization integrates the tree-axis gyroscope, thee axis acceleration, which make up a basic platform inertial navigation system.

I found this new Thai maybe China Product. Maybe it could have some interest for some in here.

The manual can be found here

I don't know anything about Price.

Maybe someone in here know more about the product.

Converting Telmetry for Google Earth Analysis - Part 1

from Pete Hollands on Vimeo.

Converting Telmetry for Google Earth Analysis - Part 2

from Pete Hollands on Vimeo.

For those with the 16HMz AT328P version of the SparkFun Razor9DOF board who also want to run the DCM based AHRS code, this may be of interest.

Following the great example of the UAVDevBoard team, who have excellent documentation on their Google Code wiki, we'll be moving all the DIY Drones product documentation to Google Code wikis for each product.

The first product to move is ArduStation, which has now fully moved to the Wiki. ArduPilot 2.5 is in progress. ArduIMU+, Blimpduino, the LabView GCS and other projects will all move over the next few week.

One of the great things about moving to a wiki is that anyone can contribute to make it better. Right now that's just for project contributors, but we'll be opening them up to all soon.

Hi all - There have been a lot of great microcontroller-based autopilot projects posted here lately. For our entry into the AUVSI UAS competition, we wanted to build an autopilot system with plenty of power for developing our imaging system. We also wanted to use the excellent Paparazzi ground station. The result was to port the Paparazzi autopilot software to run on Linux, and use a 3.5" single board computer onboard.

The result is a bit bigger and heavier than microcontroller based autopilots, like the Paparazzi Tiny v2 and the Ardupilot. We're using a hand-me-down .60 size trainer for our flight tests, and are moving up to a 10ft wingspan, 25lb plane when we add our imaging system. More news on that system to come in the next few weeks.

Please check out the project website: http://moreproductive.org/autopilot/

- Pat Hickey, Rutgers Autonomous Aircraft Team

Introducing OpenPilot - Open Source UAV Platform

OpenPilot is a next generation Free Software autopilot for small UAVs, including multi-rotor craft, helicopters as well as fixed wing aircraft. It aims to takes the best features of all current enthusiast autopilot systems and combines them into a simple easy to use package. Simplicity does not come with any compromises either, with no hard-coded settings, a complete flight plan scripting language and other next-generation features, OpenPilot is planned to be an extremely capable UAV platform.

Key Features:

• Fully Open Source Free Software
• Custom built powerful hardware using High Density STM32
• 8 RC Channel Inputs for PPM (No converter needed)
• 8 Servo Outputs using standard servo connectors
• I2C, CAN & PWM ESC Support
• Micro SDCard for settings and logging
• State of the art AHRS
• Implements the open UAVTalk Protocol for GCS compatibility
• Cross Platform Ground Control Station & Set-up tools
• Cross Platform Firmware Development

OpenPilot is a Open Source community project and there are many ways you can get involved.

For developers the project has two sub-projects, you can get involved in the Flight Software Development which is the embedded firmware written in C or with the Ground Control Software Development which is written in C++ using the Qt application framework.

Links:

OpenPilot Wiki

OpenPilot Forums

OpenPilot Store

IRC:

There's always developers in the OpenPilot IRC channel which is #openpilot on freenode.

Testing Ardupilot 2.5 from Jason Short on Vimeo.

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=10343&Product_Name=Quanum_2.4Ghz_voltage_telemetry_(1km_Range

I wonder if this could be hacked to tell us a little more on the ground, not in colour or hi-res obviously

Signs of things to come. Just thinking its probably useful in itself as a backup battery monitor on the ground.

New download firmware has just been added to the repository http://code.google.com/p/ardu-imu/downloads/list

The v1.5 firmware includes:

• ADC oversampling which increases the effective resolution of the gyros and accelerometers
• Drift correction gain de-weighting and speed filtering
  
• Support for binary output messages as well as human readable
• Support for both hardware types
• Ground and Air start modes
• Other improvements and bug fixes
  

Connections :

Product details here: http://www.flytron.com/54-fc-420-25gr-submicro-fpv-camera.html