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This is a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to's, videos, discussion and more (you can read more about us here). Please use the tabs above to navigate the site.These are our Arduino-based open source autopilot projects:
* ArduPilot, a very low-cost (the basic board is just $24.95!) autopilot
* BlimpDuino, an autonomous blimp with both infrared and ultrasonic guidance
Other UAV/autopilot projects and code, by processor and OS type, are here.
Earlier DIY Drones projects, including Lego and cellphone autopilots, are here
Interviews with interesting UAV and autopilot experts are here.
FAQs:
* I'm new to all this--where do I start?
* Are amateur UAVs legal?
* What's the difference between a gyro and an accelerometer? Do I need both?
* I'm confused by all these terms! Is there a glossary? (yes!)
You can find a list of external UAV resources, including commercial UAVs and other open source UAV projects and code here.
Contests
The third round of the DIY Drones Trust Time Trial (T3) Contest has now begun. This round is an altitude round that attempts to beat the current world record for cumulative climbs. Deadline is November 29th. Enter here.Blog Posts
RobotC Version 2.0 now out
For those of you who, like me, love Lego Mindstorms as a robotics prototyping tools, good news. The best programming language for Mindstorms is Robot C, and it's just been upgraded to 2.0. (It's a free upl… Continue Posted by Chris Anderson on November 22, 2009 at 12:17pm
IASSA, Light Unmanned Aircraft Flight Demonstration
More images and videos to follow soon.
UAV Flying Day v2.pdf The brochure.… Continue
Posted by Sarel P. Wagner on November 22, 2009 at 7:30am — 9 Comments
In AUVSI mag: "Do Terrorists Want UAS, Too?"
There's a provocative piece in the current issue of the AUVSI's offical magazine, Umanned Systems.… Continue
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 21, 2009 at 11:30pm — 10 Comments
DIY Drones live chat/podcast Sunday. Guest: Steve Morris of MLB
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Tomorrow (Sunday) night we'll do our regular podcast, which everyone here is welcome to participate in by listening to the chat live above and commenting and asking questions via the DIY Drones… Continue
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 21, 2009 at 6:30pm
Beta of AttoPilot GCS
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 20, 2009 at 9:13pm — 5 Comments
FLYING REALLY HIGH & MORE DISHES
For the first time since Mike Fouche documented it on Goo Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6j--ja_okg
An autonomous copter has flown at a certain very high altitude in a certain country. The exact altitude & country is a secret to protect the innocent of course. It was also at midnight, like all our most extreme test flights.
Since the radio seems to work better if the antenna isn't blocked by anythin… Continue
Posted by Jack Crossfire on November 20, 2009 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments
CHR-6d, US$125, 1.5grams 6DoF IMU
Did anybody use "CHR-6d Inertial Measurement Unit" (US$125, 1.5grams 6DoF IMU) in his/her UAV?
Posted by Roberto Hawkowski on November 20, 2009 at 5:00am — 6 Comments
The ASP XR-01 UAV with the Ardupilot v2.4.6
On nov 15,2009, this was a great day, my ASP XR-01 UAV fully equiped with the ArduPilot v2.4.… Continue
Posted by Jean-Louis Naudin on November 19, 2009 at 12:19am — 24 Comments
ArduIMU V2 Test Application
This application was designed to help you test your ArduIMU V2 by showing graphically and numerically all of the data being output from the IMU.
You can download the Setup here: ArduIMUTest Setup (3 MB)
This version of the Test App uses the MSCOMM control, so the max COM port number is 16 (unfortunately a limitation set forth my Microsoft).
Be… Continue
Posted by HappyKillmore on November 18, 2009 at 7:30pm — 9 Comments
Pushing the UAV DevBoard to the limits
Tailless & Wingletless from Bryan Cuervo on Vimeo.
In one more attempt to test the abilities and push the limits of Bill's UAV DevBoard, I removed the winglets from my tailless design so now there are no horizontal or vertical stabilizers.
The video is in three segments; the first showing manual flight with stabilization disengaged. You can see the difficu… Continue
Posted by Bryan Cuervo on November 18, 2009 at 5:06pm — 5 Comments
SC-203, Small UAVs, and You
SC-203, a special committee requested by both the AOPA and the FAA, is currently drafting recommendations for policies that will "assure the safe operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) within the National Airspace System." A vast majority of the regulations SC-203 is in the process of drafting wil… Continue
Posted by Adam Kaplan on November 17, 2009 at 9:01pm — 1 Comment
Airtec UAVs video
Promised video from Airtec
Hummingbird
Falcon
Fancopter
Regards,
Dimitar
Posted by Dimitar Kolev on November 16, 2009 at 11:33pm — 5 Comments
Curious about the legal issues behind UAVs? Listen to this week's podcast episode with Patrick Egan!
AAC: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330632997
MP3: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330633212
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AAC: http://feeds.feedburner.… Continue
Posted by Tim Trueman on November 16, 2009 at 11:30pm — 13 Comments
Yet another 3 axis single chip gyroscope
http://www.st.com/stonline/stappl/cms/press/news/year2009/p2440.htm
Apparently a world first, but I swear I saw something similar a few weeks ago.
Again though as with the ITG-3200 an… Continue
Posted by Angus Peart on November 16, 2009 at 3:41pm — 14 Comments
ArduIMU groundstation written in 'processing'
The Processing development environment is very similar to the Arduino evironment
Processing compiles into Java, it allows you to run the same code on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Being a Mac… Continue
Posted by agmatthews on November 16, 2009 at 4:00am — 16 Comments
Small UAV platform
Hi Everyone
I got my fingers on this UAV platform - maybe it could be an interesting platform for the community.
Remember to use your Chinese translation..
Some information:
Wingspan: 1120 mm
Body length: 970
The airframe is made up of the compound of PVC and EPS, which is light weigh… Continue
Posted by Hooks on November 16, 2009 at 2:00am — 34 Comments
Gyro and accelerometer vibration tests
Posted by automatik on November 16, 2009 at 1:00am — 2 Comments
DIY Drones live chat/podcast tonight at 8:30pm PST
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Tonight (Sunday) we'll do our regular podcast, which everyone here is welcome to participate in by listening to the chat live above and commenting and asking questions via the DIY Drones… Continue
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 15, 2009 at 6:30pm
More news.. (Including new 2Ch OptoCoupler and ArduIMU Flat issue)
I'm setting up ArduIMU and ArduPilot SVN repertory, in conjunction with Google code. In that way you will be able to track all the changes made to the code and spot the differences between revisions with the possibility to comment (or complain) about it.
Lets do an interesting example, if you go to google code repertory for ardupilot and you click in the tab "source" and then in the option "Changes", or just click he… Continue
Posted by Jordi Muñoz on November 15, 2009 at 1:30pm — 10 Comments
Excellent tear-down of an old military gyro
They don't make them like this anymore! Gorgeous manufacturing, but it's still a mystery how this ol… Continue
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 14, 2009 at 5:24pm
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