We wrote about [Chris Anderson] before when he released the Arduino based autopilot. He has since crashed his first Predator UAV, due to an underpowered motor and poor control of the v-tail only steering. He has since released a pro version of the autopilot controller, and is modifying this UAV Predator drone kit to work with it. One ATMega168 processor handles flying and the other handles GPS navigation, but because they work together, it results in a fully autonomous drone. He also has a BlimpDuino version we have covered before.
Sweet. but for me it’s not the platform, it’s the sensor modules.
this is a great concept. i’m curious about the clone-stamped grass in the bottom right corner of the image. what was he hiding?
That picture looks fake…
http://www.nitroplanes.com/4eluavrqprra.html
it is not fake, but a pretty affordable kit that was modified to be a drone. I had not noticed the picture was shopped or I would not have used it.
http://diydrones.ning.com/
@derwin
That doesn’t look clone stamped. That looks more like a planting crate was left there and flattened the grass into the cris cross pattern
Wouldn’t that be an MQ-9 “Reaper”, Not the MQ-1 “Predator”. Sorry, hate to be “that” guy.
@deimos
The MQ9 Reaper was originally know as the MQ9 Predator B
@derwin
It’s hiding a logo from this picture
http://site.nitroplanes.com/uav4.jpg
that is on this page
http://www.nitroplanes.com/4eluavrqprra1.html
Chris here. Yes, that’s the pic I grabbed from the Nitroplanes site and shopped out their logo. My own shots aren’t as good because I’m a crappy photographer, but if you want to see them they’re here: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A764
很干兴趣