Ramon Roche 🚀

Open source autonomy from ground to orbit | ED @dronecode @linuxfoundation | PX4 · Pixhawk · MAVLink · Space Grade Linux | 🇲🇽

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

And remember kids, loyalty and respect can't be bought.

[DroneBlocks @DroneBlocks]

Tag Hop mission in Python!
Take off at tag 1, climb to 2 meters, hold for 2.5 seconds, fly to tag 3, then backwards to tag 2. DEXI finds each AprilTag with its camera, so there's no GPS and nobody on the sticks.

Try the DroneBlocks today 👇
https://t.co/5dw0U781PO

#STEM #px4

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

We're thrilled to announce that the #Robotics & Simulation devroom is back at FOSDEM in 2027!

Watch this space for news of the CFP opening.

https://t.co/FDatlOd8lR

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@it4sec No autopilot can promise a sensor is telling the truth: https://t.co/bl4w6NumJ6

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

Im incredibly proud to see MAVLink-M named as a preferred standard in DDP 3, alongside @neros_tech APEX and sUPI.

Huge thanks to the working group and to the DDP team for betting on open standards.

https://t.co/VZPP4e0beL

#DroneDominance #MAVLink #OpenSource @Dronecode

[Department of War Innovation Unit @DIU_x]

Phase 3 of the Drone Dominance Program is live, and we’re raising the stakes once again, allocating $450 million toward roughly 60,000 drones. Awards will be split evenly across two mission sets, with an option to buy up to 40,000 more.

Deep Strike and Close Quarter Battle (CQB) mission sets return from Phase 2, with tougher scenarios and a faster pace. Both will be tested in GNSS- and comms-denied environments.

Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/y83YspBIh1

[OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library @opencvofficial]

We’ve launched OpenCV Enterprise: Maintenance, qualified builds and engineering support for companies using OpenCV in production.

If your company needs this help, sign up: https://t.co/6wGZClZiIJ

The OpenCV library remains free and open source, no changes to releases.

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@MikeMcQuaid Good job @MikeMcQuaid and team.

[Ubuntu @ubuntu]

Gliding through the waves, the Stonking Stingray emerges with agility and grace.🌊

See it up close: https://t.co/DuzJWhZxXh

Ubuntu 26.10 lands on October 15, 2026.

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@DIU_x I see lots of Pixhawk, MAVLink, and PX4 😎

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

We have a huge news to share today!

Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck

A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, bluetooth, wifi, etc) that you train yourself with reinforcement learning.

It's also playable out of the box with more than half a dozen fun and playful pre-trained policies to have it walk, sit, crouch, roller-skate, pick up objects with its articulated beak, and recover on its own.

And all for less than $400.

See all the details, play with the simulator and order it at: https://t.co/n1Btgs6vKw

(video with sound on 🔊)

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@sysxplore Hola 🇲🇽

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

Happy birthday Linux 👏

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..."

On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup. He thought he was just building something fun for himself.

35 years later, that "hobby" is the backbone of global technology:

🚀 Powering helicopters in space with NASA
☁️ Running the global cloud and 100% of the world’s supercomputers
📱 Connecting billions of people
🎮 Redefining the future of handheld gaming

What started as one student's side project became the greatest collaborative technology movement in history. Thank you to every maintainer, contributor, and advocate who made it possible.

Happy 35th Birthday, Linux. Here’s to the power of open source and the next 35 years of building together.

https://t.co/KDN6Coob7F

#Linux35

[Unmanned Systems Technology @UnmannedSystem]

@Dronecode Foundation participants produced 7 working integrations using the MAVLink-Military dialect, verifying cross-vendor implementations across uncrewed platforms, payloads, flight controllers and ground control stations end to end.
https://t.co/VGpCLp878M

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@roman_koshchei @ToxinLethal It’s absolutely possible to RC override your way into that, but the end result will be hard to maintain. Even a full mavlink interface layer between both systems is hard, but not impossible, have you seen MAVSDK?

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@roman_koshchei @ToxinLethal Not switching is fine. But “less popular” isn’t a technical reason. Run it in SITL for an afternoon, then tell me it doesn’t solve your problem. I’ll listen. Just don’t expect plug and play with whatever you wrote for ArduPilot. Different beasts.

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@roman_koshchei @ToxinLethal The bar for new boards is high on purpose. Any vendor is welcome if they support their own customers instead of offloading it to the project. Targeting a specific board? DM me.

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

@VisforVeteran @drlorenzmeier Some used SUPI others APEX, all of them MAVLink-M

[Dronecode Foundation @Dronecode]

Competing drone companies just proved they can solve interoperability faster in the open than any of them could do alone this week at the Dronecode Foundation MAVLink-M Integration Hackathon!

Read the press release to find out more: https://t.co/3qePEHtErj

[Lorenz Meier @drlorenzmeier]

This is a day for history! We established together with @DeptofWar ‘s Drone Dominance team and leading players from industry the MAVLink-M payload standard with live strikes on our tank by different partners. MOSA is a theory until you put metal on the target and we did!

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

Here’s the aftermath from the 7 teams that participated

[Ramon Roche 🚀 @mrpollo]

We had a bit of fun today at the last day of the MAVLink-M hackathon with @drlorenzmeier