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Ardupilots for Free Day is January 7th.

Sparkfun

This would seem to be the same power profile as the RC radios - with trans capabilities.
As it is "Wireless USB", it should be fast enough for first person video in digital modes.

http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/ph/unigen/juno.html

Hobby King released a new platform which might address some of the complaints with easystar - it's larger, has ailerons (and flaps), and plenty of room under the wing for CG neutral payloads.

Having now worked with all three uControllers and their respective IDEs, I thought it would be beneficial to start a milestone summary of my observations.

To begin, I recently went back to the Microchip PIC family on account of their superior battery life (ultra low watt sleep) - which it seems is a full order of magnitude better than freescale or atmel. I note that microchip has recently? added a C compiler to the free IDE, in addition the PICs now come with a matrix multiplier which increases… Continue

Kill Devil Hill


I was driving home tonight and thought how cool would it be if the RC/UAV community worked together on a small model of the Wright's plane, with an autopilot that would repeat the flight path of the first airplane for visitors. It's a tragically quiet monument, and it would be much improved by a regular flight demonstra… Continue