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This community created the Arduino-compatible ArduPilot, the world's first universal autopilot (planes, copters of all sorts, ground rovers). The APM 2 autopilot hardware runs a variety of powerful free Arduino-based UAV software systems, including:

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Posted by Jack Crossfire on February 6, 2012 at 4:00am 1 Comment 0 Likes
The mane requirement for Marcy 1 was always the most advanced flying thing known to man, hovering autonomously, showing POV synchronized to Evans Blue: The Darkness That Follows. 2 years after envisioning it, we finally got it working. It doesn't come out as well with the slow RPM as hoped.
Getting the full POV image requires lying directly…
Posted by James Magos on February 6, 2012 at 3:00am 2 Comments 0 Likes
Posted by Mark Harrison on February 5, 2012 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Here's NASA's presentation at the recent AMA expo. It's about 75 minutes in five parts.
Are you a pilot looking for a handy means to help keep you out of trouble -- such as, say, flying into immoveable objects like mountains or the ground? Well, in the future, there may be an app for…
Posted by Monroe on February 5, 2012 at 1:30pm 10 Comments 4 Likes
Making your own Zero Pressure balloon is a bunch easier than you might think! What is a Zero Pressure balloon? A Zero Pressure balloon is a high altitude balloon much like the latex weather balloons many people use to do experiments in NearSpace these day's or altitudes higher than 65,000ft.
These balloons go so…
ContinuePosted by Jean-Louis Naudin on February 5, 2012 at 1:59am 6 Comments 3 Likes
Here a video of the test of a Nimbus 4 meters wingspan electro-glider piloted by the firmware ArduPlane 2.28xp1 (updated version with a JLN mod). Test done in HIL mode with the AeroSIM-RC v3.83 simulator connected through the AP Mission planner v1.1.30 on an ArduPilot Mega board v1.
Test Mission…
ContinuePosted by Ihab Ali on February 5, 2012 at 12:00am 1 Comment 3 Likes
Hello,
This is my first blog(and I mean first ever anywhere) so please excuse the lack of the "bloginess" quality :)
I've been in testing mode with APM1 since the release of Arducopter 1 code. After a couple lost and crashed quads, I decided that my strategy for testing arducopter from now on is to start with a cheap frame/motor/prop combo, basically to…
ContinuePosted by Trent at MyGeekShow on February 4, 2012 at 12:54pm 5 Comments 4 Likes
This week I constructed, installed and tested an APM on my Nova. Everything went great! Stabilization worked like a charm and RTL worked flawlessly! Can't wait for the next few months as I explore this "new" technology. (well, new to me!)
Thank you DIYDrones for the AWESOME equipment and software... very, very…
ContinuePosted by Chris Anderson on February 4, 2012 at 11:23am 4 Comments 4 Likes
Posted by Adam Rivera on February 3, 2012 at 11:30pm 5 Comments 4 Likes
Hi again all, Two blog posts in two days... i'm on a roll. I just finished the next set of revisions to my autotuning code. I have shifted from tuning the stab gains to tuning the rate gains. This is more dangerous but also more rewarding.
Here are…
ContinuePosted by Shannon Morrisey on February 3, 2012 at 1:00pm 5 Comments 1 Like
ArduinoCommander is a sweet new Android app for controlling Arduino with a Bluetooth shield.
From Android Market:
"Control your Arduino board from your Android device via Bluetooth using WYSIWYG…
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