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Best Way To Build A DIY UAV?

May 26th, 2009 Pratik Desai No comments

Hello,

I found out a discussion going on slashdot.com, where visitors are sharing and describing their own UAV building experiences. The post starts like as show below but read all comments which are explanation in real.

Shojun writes “I am very interested in building my own UAV, not just one that can fly around happily, but one that I can program to say, take photos every second as it does a barrel roll under a bus (ok that part may be a pipe dream). I have enough embedded programming experience — it’s the hardware which I’m uncertain about. I can go the kit way, and then build the remaining stuff, or get some Dollar Tree Foam boards and build it all. I’m in favor of ease, however. Once the plane is built, buying a dev board seems like a possibility, but I wonder whether it’s overkill. Alternatively if there was a How-to-build example on the net for such an activity that I could adapt, to the degree that I could then program in even completely hardcoded flight instrutions, I can certainly take it from there. Thoughts? Has anyone here tried something like this before?”

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UAV Devboard – A three-axis IMU-based autopilot board

May 26th, 2009 Pratik Desai No comments
UAV Devboard

UAV Devboard

I found This article from DIYDRONES.com and they update the links for this board regularly. So if you want to know about just specification about the board they are all here, but if you want to buy a one or more information visit this website Here.

This is the home page for the SparkFun three-axis autopilot development board developed by Bill Premerlani. This board comes with a dsPIC30F4011 CPU, an MMA7260 three axis accelerometer and 3 ADXRS401 gyros already soldered as shown in the picture. It is intended for the do-it-yourselfer. By itself, it can be used to develop a three axis IMU controller. With the addition of an EM406 GPS receiver it can be used to develop a UAV controller for an RC car, plane, or boat. It comes with self-testing firmware that serves as a starting point for you to develop your own control and navigation firmware.

For a flight Testing information information, read this blog.

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