Ardupilot: arduino based UAV autopilot
posted Jul 3rd 2008 7:52am by Will O'Brienfiled under: arduino hacks, daily, gps hacks, misc hacks

A short while back, [Chris Anderson] released an Arduino based autopilot. It rings in fairly cheap and being open source, you can tweak away. To add more functionality, he’s releasing a dual core version. Thanks to the second processor, it no longer requires an external hardware co-pilot. It uses an on-board GPS and features an ATtiny based fail safe. It’s still under development, but he’s made the design files available.

The projects look great. If I had a plane I would fly…actually I’d let the ArduPilot fly it.
I work for TI, so seeing the parts list reference a TI part and saying to ask for Samples is just fantastic. I know it irks our shipping department, but I just love the idea.
Posted at 8:46 am on Jul 3rd, 2008 by Chris