So here goes, I guess I'm going to try and "get involved". Just do me a favor, if this sounds a little too crazy, tell me now. Get this over early.
I want to build a TRULY open source autopilot, control system, for UAV and hobby enthusiast rc piloted aircraft.
I could be TOTALLY off base here, but would this be a great platform?
I want it to be modularized and I want it to be generic. When I say I want to do an open source project, I want anyone who wants to build this thing to be able to go to radio shack or frys or wherever and use OFF THE SHELF parts to build something. I don't want to knock any of the other platforms but seriously folks, I own just about every arduino board made. Nano, Pro, Mega, Uno, Fio, a couple of obscure ones. I have shields, sensors. Little circuits I've built just because I had parts and a soldering iron not even knowing what they would do. I have all this stuff and yet if I want to build a DIY Drone based on the open pilot or ardupilot or any damn pilot I have to use THIER PROPRIETARY PLATFORM?
I want to build an airplane or an underwater bot or a cool crawler rover and use off the shelf parts and then have a software interface that allows me to run it, click the boxes of the sensors and hardware Im using, click and drag my interface buttons and joystick controller parts around the screen to design an interface and go.
I think all the tools and components are all there for anyone to easily drive to a local hobby store and buy which allows for dads like me to start a project with my kids that I can finish over a weekend or on spring break. And if i break something, go get another one.
When I started flying rc I was 9 years old. I had to build my plane (no arfs) and they were a bitch to fly. I crashed everytime I went flying for YEARS. But I could go by the local hobby store on the way home and get parts and advice and on a weekend I could crash for two whole days.
The teensy with a compliment of sensors and interfaces seems like it would make an ideal platform for this stuff.
Or am I totally nuckin futs?
I want to build a TRULY open source autopilot, control system, for UAV and hobby enthusiast rc piloted aircraft.
I could be TOTALLY off base here, but would this be a great platform?
I want it to be modularized and I want it to be generic. When I say I want to do an open source project, I want anyone who wants to build this thing to be able to go to radio shack or frys or wherever and use OFF THE SHELF parts to build something. I don't want to knock any of the other platforms but seriously folks, I own just about every arduino board made. Nano, Pro, Mega, Uno, Fio, a couple of obscure ones. I have shields, sensors. Little circuits I've built just because I had parts and a soldering iron not even knowing what they would do. I have all this stuff and yet if I want to build a DIY Drone based on the open pilot or ardupilot or any damn pilot I have to use THIER PROPRIETARY PLATFORM?
I want to build an airplane or an underwater bot or a cool crawler rover and use off the shelf parts and then have a software interface that allows me to run it, click the boxes of the sensors and hardware Im using, click and drag my interface buttons and joystick controller parts around the screen to design an interface and go.
I think all the tools and components are all there for anyone to easily drive to a local hobby store and buy which allows for dads like me to start a project with my kids that I can finish over a weekend or on spring break. And if i break something, go get another one.
When I started flying rc I was 9 years old. I had to build my plane (no arfs) and they were a bitch to fly. I crashed everytime I went flying for YEARS. But I could go by the local hobby store on the way home and get parts and advice and on a weekend I could crash for two whole days.
The teensy with a compliment of sensors and interfaces seems like it would make an ideal platform for this stuff.
Or am I totally nuckin futs?