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janrinok
on Wednesday January 21 2015, @11:08PM
from the penguins-to-infinity-and-beyond dept.
from the penguins-to-infinity-and-beyond dept.
ArduPilot is a versatile open source Arduino-based platform for controlling autonomous multicopters, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and ground vehicles. Last week at linux.conf.au, Andrew Tridgell presented a talk on progress in porting ArduPilot to Linux, where he explained that the ArduPilot port is just part of a wider movement towards small autonomous vehicles running on the Linux.
The video talk is available here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/20/linuxconf_au_andrew_tridgell_ardupilot_linux/
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday January 22 2015, @03:07AM
Well lets hope they don't port it to windows. At least this way we can forestall the air being full of drones peeping in everyone's window. /joke
Its nice to see an open source solution develop WITH the industry, rather than after the fact. Now if commercial manufacturers don't sabotage the efforts it will be great.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.