DroneDB VS PX4-Autopilot

There is DroneDB, it's open source project, and you can self-host, or open up projects locally for free. I also believe it has a cloud service that has a few Gb free, but for bigger projects you would have to buy it. It's pretty ok from my experience, but I'm not sure if you can have annotations, I believe it uses similar libraries as WebODM.

For simply sharing a 3d model you could use Sketchfab or DroneDB.

DroneDB is a self-hosted application that can do that https://dronedb.app/

Easy hosting of data is totally Drone Deploy's upside, but again the cost/economics of DD was a hard pill for me to swallow. I am very excited about DroneDB: https://dronedb.app/ because it looks like it will fill the sharing void at a much cheaper price point. The interface is not as shiny as DroneDeploy but I love that they offer a "we host" or "you host" option and you can go between the two - that's great for scaling operations if you plan to seriously grow your drone program.

you can host and share your ortho on our platform https://project-kiwi.org/ or i’d also recommend drone db! https://dronedb.app/

It would have been nice if you'd given us the actual GitHub link. When I Googled DroneDB Hub I found the page for the business and it wasn't even clear to me if it was open source or not.

It's in our roadmap: https://github.com/DroneDB/DroneDB/issues/12 so stay tuned!

They mention DroneDB: https://dronedb.app/

You can try the free online hub on DroneDB: https://dronedb.app It's an open source database for geospatial data and much more.

They are widely used in narrow circles :)

Two of (arguably the best) open source RC aircraft flight controllers (ArduPilot and PX4) are using extended Kalman filters in their state estimators (essentially sensor fusion that provides attitude/position estimate):

https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/tree/master/libraries...

https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/e...

I'm not that familiar with cleanflight/betaflight/inav scene to know what the FPV racer flight controllers use.

Actually, even the General Aviation pilots who actually manually manage their own load-shedding during a mission would quite like automated power distribution and management systems... and if you felt like taking on that sort of work as a hobby project to cut your teeth, I bet the guys at the (open-source) PX4 project would bite your hand off...

As a flight pilot engineer you have to find a sweet spot and balance logging too much and too little. Writing logs to an SD card has huge costs that come with it, that's why you don't want to log too much. Logging too little and you can't debug issues later on properly.

PX4 also has lots of "topics" logged at around 1/10, e.g. hover thrust estimate every 100ms:

https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/l...

Okay, but nowadays most people talk about “Pixhawk” as an open-standard hardware platform and PX4 as the software. The source code is at https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot and they call themselves “PX4 Autopilot Software”.

As an example, PX4 is a popular open source drone autopilot software: https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot

I am working as a Remote Embedded Software developer for quite a while now and there is no obstacle in Remote work. If I am missing anything, parts are arriving in under the week. That said, I never had a better work-life balance in the last 10 years. Anyone who said Embedded is not possible to do remotely just check any open source flight controller project (in my case PX4).