UAV Drones

UAS, RPV and UAV systems

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Atmel SAM4S16C Cortex M4 series coming 120Mhz, SAM3N (3S) pin/peripheral compatible, SAM3U experience can be leveraged!

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Playing with Atmel SAM-ICE & ATSAM3U-EK with IAR IDE, testing concept of increasing PWM channel outputs using pin remapping
with interrupts!

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ArmDuino Pilot Developer Edition Hardware is currently in progress.
Leveraging Arduino Due ATSAM3U4E for maximum Arduino Power!

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UAV Darpa Challenge fromm UAVforge.net, exciting embedded video @ http://uavdrones.ning.com/profiles/blogs/uavforge-crowdsourcing-for

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UAVDrones products to be designed using KICAD PCB EDA suite. Kicad Project Files will be posted for Open Hardware Compliance.

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More exploration! STM32 Arm microcontroller investigation continues.

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Playing with BeagleBoard, Linux and Android . Atxmega "D" parts are now available (no AES, less peripherals, no export restrictions)

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XmegaPilot platform may use NetDuino, Pin Compatible with Arduino, .NET debugging! AtXmega128A1 (32Mhz) and AT91SAM7X512 (48Mhz)

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XmegaPilot Feature Requests!! Add your wishlist to the Blog at http://uavdrones.ning.com/profiles/blogs/add-your-wishlist-and-feature !!

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What Price Point for XmegaPilot? Does the world need another AutoPilot? Only if it is Cheap Enough?

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Re-Design considered for cost reduction..No CPLD?

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Fun with ISE 12.1 Webpack and Altium Designer 09 working well on Win7. The embedded instruments on Soft JTAG are awesome!!

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FPGA versus CPLD - Battling to the death to see which will win to earn the right to fly on . . . XmegaPilot....Stay tuned for the results!

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XmegaPilot to use Xilinx 9500 CPLD for servo input capture and Failsafe servo routing

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Xmegapilot may contain floating point processor compatible with Matlab/Simulink/Embedded coder for In the Loop Simulation

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XmegaPilot to use MARG AHRS method by Sebastian Madgwick
An efficient orientation fillter for inertial and inertial/magnetic sensor arrays

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Checking out "MTK3329 Size - Compare to Atmel Xplain and an Ardupilot" on UAVdrones: http://ning.it/bGgk2j

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1st 24hr. target audience reception stats: 140 views, 1 in 3 researched further, 1 in 70 long term interest, only 1 in 140 early adopter

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Xmegapilot announced at RCGROUPS: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1235169

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XmegaPilot is an open-source software and hardware autopilot for use by amateur uav enthusiasts, students and researchers.