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Dronecode - A Common Codebase for Drones

posted by LaminatorX on Friday October 31 2014, @04:26AM   
from the One-Code-to-rule-them-all dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Drones have just found their new best friends: coders. On Oct. 13, the Linux Foundation unveiled a nonprofit organization called the Dronecode Project ( https://www.dronecode.org ), an open-source development initiative uniting thousands of coders for the purpose of building an aerial operating system for drones. Hopeful that the project will bring order to the chaos that has surrounded software developers as they sprint to carve out a share of the bourgeoning market for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), UAS operators are now asking whether Dronecode will finally provide the horsepower and industry-wide support needed to launch a universal drone operating system.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2841493/one-code-to-rule-them-all-dronecode.html

• and it does what? and it does what? (Score: 2) by albert on Friday October 31 2014, @04:49AM

  by albert (276) on Friday October 31 2014, @04:49AM (#111792)

  It claims to be an OS, but then I see a reference to the Linux Foundation. Is this a Linux distribution? It's unlikely we need a new OS or even a new Linux distribution for this. There are plenty of non-Linux RTOS solutions for this, and there are plenty of Linux distributions for this. Fundamentally this is the same problem space as any old robot.

  Is it an app? Is it a library of common drone functionality? Does it even run on the drone, or is it for a base station?

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• Re:and it does what? (Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday October 31 2014, @12:57PM

  by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday October 31 2014, @12:57PM (#111868) Homepage Journal

  It homes in on Laura's gigantic bush.

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