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Podcast Episode 2

On February 18th, 2011, posted in: News by adminComments Off

In the second episode of the OpenPilot Podcast we talk about all things related to sensor fusing. The podcast team this time consists of Professor Dale Schinstock PhD. from Kansas State University and the architect of the OpenPilot Extended Kalman Filter, James Cotton from the OpenPilot Architecture Team and author of the 3C Quaternion complementary..

CopterControl Progress Update

On February 14th, 2011, posted in: News by adminComments Off

CopterControl is a new board from the OpenPilot Project and is aimed at really shaking things up in the small UAV market. It is becoming more and more clear that we will achieve this goal based on the recent testing of the development boards. CopterControl was first mentioned in the OpenPilot Podcast Episode 1 where..

Introducing Opie the OpenPilot Owl

On February 8th, 2011, posted in: News by adminComments Off

The OpenPilot project would like to introduce our new mascot. His name Opie and he is a wise, young owl. We mainly selected an owl as our mascot because owls are known for their elegant and silent flight. An owl also fits well as, for example, in both Greek and Roman mythology, the goddess of..

Podcast Episode 1

On January 25th, 2011, posted in: News by adminComments Off

After last week featuring on the Floss Weekly Podcast it gave us the shove to finally start our own. So we proudly present our first attempt. In this episode the team consists of Vassilis, James, Edouard & David and we talk about Python on a Chip and the CopterControl board. There are also status updates..

OpenPilot featured on FLOSS Weekly

On January 13th, 2011, posted in: News by adminComments Off

Floss Weekly is a very popular podcast all about Free Libre Open Source Software and on Episode 148 they featured the OpenPilot project. The episode featured James Cotton and David Ankers and covered the background of the OpenPilot project, its capabilities and its future direction. A heartfelt thanks goes to Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb..