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10 days ago | about 20 hours ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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MissionPlanner
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IX12 to Spektrum XLR2 on Mateksys
Run Mission Planner on a PC, connect it to your flight controller, go to "CONFIG", then "full parameter list", then type the first characters of the one you want in the search box on the right.
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Ask HN: Best programmable drone / open source OS?
To add to this, most of the time one doesn't need to hack on the drone firmware itself. Just configuring/hacking the mission planner alone would go a long way: https://ardupilot.org/planner/
But if you're interested in more readable codebases without too much legacy headaches:
https://github.com/BossHobby/QUICKSILVER (for indoor drones mostly)
And for even less functionality but a good learning tool kind of codebase:
https://github.com/nickrehm/dRehmFlight
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Visual studio weekly chit-chat mega thread
I want to build a gui to control a small autonomous boat. My initial plan was to modify this thing: https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner
- Is there a free software for planning drone photogrammetry?
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Drone guided by a PC
If you want to learn how to build it from scratch, you can still look at Arducopter for the firmware. It's entirely open source, including the GCS's like Mission Planner, and you can look at how they implement control over telemetry radios (using a protocol called Mavlink).
- APM 2.8 compass issue
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Using Qgis to convert geotiff files for usage in Ardupilot mission planner
Related feature request, )elevation data from the Norwegian Mapping Authority ): https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/issues/2527
PX4-Autopilot
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Kalman Filter Tutorial: Kalman Filter from the Ground Up
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.
- Does anyone know about a good avionics related open source project for learning purposes?
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Power electronics and embedded systems
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...
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DJI drone flight log viewer
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...
- Has anyone programmed a drone?
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Help me choose a flight controller.
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”.
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Best way to start getting involved with open source projects?
As an example, PX4 is a popular open source drone autopilot software: https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot
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PX4-Autopilot VS uas-catpilot - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Jan 2023
- PX4 Autpilot issue witch my diy aircraft
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Having trouble finding embedded engineers, should we even be looking for embedded engineers or more optimization experts?
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).
What are some alternatives?
ardupilot - ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
simulator - A ROS/ROS2 Multi-robot Simulator for Autonomous Vehicles
inav - INAV: Navigation-enabled flight control software
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
ESP32 - DroneBridge for ESP32. A transparent short range wifi based telemetry (serial to WiFi) link. Support for MAVLink, MSP, LTM (iNAV) or any other protocol
YAMSPy - Yet Another Multiwii Serial Protocol Python Interface... for Betaflight, iNAV, etc...
tello-ros2 - ROS2 node for DJI Tello and Visual SLAM for mapping of indoor environments.
latex-yearly-planner - Digital planner for Supernote and ReMarkable // Support Ukraine 🇺🇦 https://savelife.in.ua/en
paparazzi - Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main software repository.
Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office
linorobot - Autonomous ground robots (2WD, 4WD, Ackermann Steering, Mecanum Drive)