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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
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* I'm new to all this--where do I start?
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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
Walkabout Mode in which versions?
Which versions of ArduPilot have Walk about mode? Thanks
Posted by Stephen Jack on November 9, 2009 at 11:30pm
The podcast is back! The VectorNav team talks to us about their awesome IMU and its development.
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 9, 2009 at 8:14pm — 1 Comment
My New DIY Foam Cutter
I run the wire at 160-180 degrees and it seems to cuts clean and slow.
More details and video of it in use here - http://www.fisherinnovation.com/?page_id=318
If anyone has built/used… Continue
Posted by Matt Fisher on November 9, 2009 at 7:46pm — 1 Comment
Visualizing PID loops
To me PID loops seemed a bit of a black box, so I decided to graph them out in order to better understand the inputs and output of the equations. They are actually quite simple, but I've never seen a good visual explanation. I may have some detai… Continue
Posted by jasonshort on November 9, 2009 at 3:45pm — 4 Comments
Sony Webbie on Easystar
I got my Sony Webbie! and with the wide lense.
It's installed in the nose of my easystar, I was a little nervous if it was too heavy for the star.
The test flight went ok, although the weather was bad.
… Continue
Posted by Hooks on November 9, 2009 at 2:31am — 9 Comments
Tom Pycke's new autopilot: GluonPilot
The awesome Tom Pycke, who taught us tons in the early days, is now back with a new autopilot proje… Continue
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 8, 2009 at 11:24pm — 2 Comments
AP with Ground Station and 2-way comm
I wanted to post the code and exe of the Flash file for the Ground Station and my AP. If you want to try it, you need to do a few things first.
(If you try this, remove your throttle or disconnect your ESC from your motor!)
1 - Load the DefaultsWriter.pde onto the Ardupilot HW to get some dece… Continue
Posted by jasonshort on November 8, 2009 at 6:30pm — 7 Comments
ArduIMU+ V2 (Flat) now available for preorder..
Posted by Jordi Muñoz on November 8, 2009 at 5:00pm — 21 Comments
Atto in Africa
Had a very pleasant afternoon picnicking and an Atto flight in the Kamberg, take off at 6500' on a hot day.
The flying wing goes a little quicker in the thin air!
Deep joy.
Posted by Gary Mortimer on November 8, 2009 at 10:26am — 5 Comments
Simulator Atmega328
Posted by Yves Gohy on November 8, 2009 at 8:26am — 3 Comments
I Can See My House From Up Here!
I Can See My House From Up Here!
The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is quite an impressive piece of hardware. It can stay in the air for mor… Continue
Posted by isobot on November 8, 2009 at 12:00am — 18 Comments
Can somebody tell me the meaning of this picture?
The first two in guess it correctly, will receive a unit free of charge including UPS shipping. Limited to one international.
Posted by Jordi Muñoz on November 7, 2009 at 10:30pm — 32 Comments
For IMU geeks: a good guide to Euler Angles and quanternian math
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 7, 2009 at 7:10pm
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Tomorrow night (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 7, 2009 at 6:56pm
Want to test code with the simulator X-Plane?
It has everything you need to treat it as a virtual IMU. This was instrumental in getting my extended Kalman filter running (to be open sourced soonish) and I hope you find it useful too!
(I'll do an updated version that shows you how to control the plane in X-Plane from your code.)
… Continue
Posted by Tim Trueman on November 7, 2009 at 4:30pm — 6 Comments
New products in the DIY Drones store
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 7, 2009 at 4:03pm
ArduIMU v2 Questions
Posted by Sun Jing on November 7, 2009 at 2:16pm — 1 Comment
Online servo database
Posted by Chris Anderson on November 7, 2009 at 7:00am — 2 Comments
The UAV DevBoard and latest firmware in action
The compete story is here.
Complete Waypoint Circuit from Bryan Cuervo on Vimeo.
ContinuePosted by Bryan Cuervo on November 7, 2009 at 2:44am — 10 Comments
This week in aerospace
THE C328 LIVES
After 3 weeks of hacking, the C328 started producing decent results. Your main problem if you intend to control it from a computer on the ground, using Xbees, is getting the UART to work reliably. It needs a real clean signal & short cables to work at 115200. Initializing it still takes s… Continue
Posted by Jack Crossfire on November 6, 2009 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments
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