Don't play Taps for 3DR's Solo yet. 3DR's CEO Chris Anderson tweeted today that the Solo is getting a second life. In an article title "The Solo Lives On," on the ArduPilot Blog - ArduPilot is an opensource autopilot system - the team explains how a community of developers worked to give the Solo a "heart transplant." The developer of the Pixhawk2 hardware flight system, … [Read more...] about 3DR Solo Back as Open Source Platform
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Linux Foundation Fuels Open-Source Drone Efforts
(Source: cnet.com) The folks who help bring you the Linux operating system today want to bring you better drones tomorrow. The Linux Foundation, which sponsors some development of the widely used operating system, announced the new open-source Dronecode software project. Dronecode brings a formal structure and oversight to two existing open-source drone projects, the … [Read more...] about Linux Foundation Fuels Open-Source Drone Efforts
APM:Plane 3.0.3 released
from diydrones.com The ardupilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.0.3 of APM:Plane. This release contains some important bug fixes for all supported boards. The key bug fixes in this release are: fixed handling of filter divergence in the EKF filter fixed a glide slope calculation bug when entering AUTO mode The EKF fixes are the main … [Read more...] about APM:Plane 3.0.3 released
