All Blog Posts Tagged 'blimpduino' (24)

New BlimpDuino board (final production version)

Here's the final board (v6) that will be going into production (click for big picture).… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on January 2, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

BlimpDuino code Beta1.1 released

Jordi's now finished the Beta release candidate of the

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Added by Chris Anderson on January 1, 2009 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

Instructions for using BlimpDuino

Here's how to use Blimpduino:

First thing, needless to say: inflate the en

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Added by Chris Anderson on December 14, 2008 at 10:30pm — 9 Comments

A small fleet of BlimpDuinos going out to the beta testers

We're still hand-assembling these--it's a lot of work! But if they pass the beta tests, we ca… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on December 7, 2008 at 10:42pm — 2 Comments

Build your own BlimpDuino platform

Here are the instructions to build your own BlimpDuino platform. All the parts, with links

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Added by Chris Anderson on December 7, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

BlimpDuino debugging tips

Just a quick note for those building… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on November 24, 2008 at 3:39pm — No Comments

Coast Guard Academy course built around BlimpDuino!

This year the Coast Guard Academy's mech… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on November 23, 2008 at 5:03pm — 2 Comments

New: BlimpDuino board version 5

BlimpDuino is in the hands of beta testers, so we're doing some last minute tweaks. The… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on October 28, 2008 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Finally! BlimpDuino code now in beta!

Jordi's done some heroic work squeezing the maximum out of the Arduino platform (with some he… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on October 26, 2008 at 10:00am — 11 Comments

BlimpDuino Fly test (Video)...

This is a quick video of Blimpduino, just void my voice comments =P, the motors are little bit unbalanced, the left one is pushing harder, nothing that can't be solved by software =). Is holding altitude with PID... Hardware version: 4.3.1 Software version: 4.2.1 beta

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Added by Jordi Muñoz on October 19, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

New BlimpDuino code--much more efficient!

Jordi's been hard at work on the BlimpDuino code. Here's the latest version, which he describes as follows: "Wow, a lot to explain! I added a lot of interesting functions, it will blow your mind ;-) First I added a smart delay system. If you need to delay() something you can use the smart_delay(1000) function, and it will delay the value between the () and spend the time capturing IR packets rather than doing nothing. This… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on October 18, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

BlimpDuino RC-mode code

If you want to fly BlimpDuino in RC mode (recommended! It's fun and a good way to learn the aerodynamics of vectoring thrusters), you'll need to run this code. BTW, we have beta units in the hands of testers now (sorry, no more units to give away at this time). If all goes well, we should have kits by the end of the year. Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on October 11, 2008 at 9:22am — No Comments

BlimpDuino code now in alpha

Jordi has finished the first pass on the code for the new BlimpDuino boards. It's best to consider this pre-alpha and not fully functional, but if you want to see how we read IR and ultrasonic sensors, read RC channels, drive a servo and twin motors and use PID loops to hold altitude and navigate, you'll find it instructive. It's practically a primer in Arduino robotics. Of particular note are the PID control loo… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on September 15, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

BlimpDuino production board release candidate

After some wasted time with expensive PCB design errors, we've finally got a release candida… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on September 12, 2008 at 2:00pm — 5 Comments

ArduPilot and BlimpDuino status updates

As they say, the last 10% of the development takes 90% of the time. But we're getting close. Here's the latest: --ArduPilot: we're now on the second beta of the commerical board, which will be manufactured and sold by a commerical partner to be named soon. Fingers crossed, we've finally squashed all the bugs. As soon as the manufactured boards (PCB plus robotic pick-and-place SMD component assembly) come back from our partner in a week or two, we'll optimize the code on the simulator, an… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on September 10, 2008 at 7:48pm — 9 Comments