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I have the gimbal controller talking to the flight controller now, so it can use a brushless gimbal controller to fix on certain coordinates. Basically it takes the current GPS coordinates and the desired fix location and calculates the bearing and declination to the target. The bearing sets...

Yeah, it's integrated. Actually it doesn't have to be - the driver board is designed as a separate board but it solders on the back of Sparky to appear like one board.

So I've been working on a small board for Tau Labs called Sparky, which I wanted to share. The goal was a small single sided board that was relatively easy to hand assemble. It has a gyro / accel / mag / baro and does altitude hold, position hold, rth, etc. There is also an add-on board for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWmuaAhO-mE&list=UUaT25BYqLWgAbnuZWJw9erg&index=1 Thanks! This is using the Tau Labs fork but I'd imagine they'll backport some of the functionality to OP at some point. I'm working with a test group to get PH and RTH working robustly on Quanton . Steffan has...

So I had fun testing a new Tau labs feature. Controlling the quad via the tablet/phone. This video demonstrates autonomous takeoff, landing, holding position, flying to tablet, flying to home, and path navigation: it worked pretty well except for the fact it was too windy for the navigation...

And as I pointed out in the other thread, it appears you are doing closed development based on my GPL code. edited out less-relevant comments......maybe sharing a forum area won't work after all......Bartman

Absolutely. For easy to fly out of the box and available I'd totally agree DJI stuff seems to have a great track record. For extremely good navigation I've been blown away with the demos from Autoquad. We'll see what kind of track record Tau Labs can establish :).

FWIW we structured things a bit differently at Tau Labs so the software group isn't related to hardware. In the case of Quanton, for example, it's actually manufactured by a German company Quantec which has inhouse PCB manufacturing facilities so supply of that will probably not be an issue...

Since there autotuning came up: https://vimeo.com/58536515 https://vimeo.com/58668541 https://vimeo.com/58572704

Thanks Bartman!

We do have an autotuning algorithm that people have pretty good success with (and now that doesn't let you take off if it is misconfigured). In fact that evolved when AlPackin pointed out how easy NAZA is regarding plug-and-play and we wanted to try and match it. In addition you can refine the...

Sounds like a good idea. Our software runs on OP hardware and non-OP hardware so it's sort of a superset of OP hardware.

True. Tau Labs is the evolution of OpenPilot by the people that original wrote the code for OP, so it's probably of interest to people following this section who are have used OP and want a board capable of what Revo is that is available right now.

I thought you guys might be interested in this new flight controller which is available now for purchase: http://www.quantec-networks.de/quanton/ For discussion see http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1833030 and forums.taulabs.org This board runs the Tau Labs software which is...

Sorry, right now it requires 4.0.1 or higher. I keep meaning to try and reduce that or make a stripped down 2.3 version but it's a hard thing to prioritize. We're all still working hard at taulabs: forums.taulabs.org which is where the developers all went. I just maintain backward...

I think the kindle uses android behind the scenes but I'm not sure how easy it is to get access and install custom applications.

No, for iPhone you have to purchase a 500$ license to make it talk to other devices without rooting which is why I switched to Android (I got an iPhone on day 2 the first gen were out so it was quite ai switch).

Oh definitely not, the majority developers moved to Tau Labs where things are really rocking along. For now it's easy enough to keep the android application compatible with the OP-official releases since there is little to no development there. I posted here since it's relevant for OP-board...

No problem! I've been using it pretty regularly for the last few weeks. It's readable enough in daylight on an Nexus 7 and it's useful for tweaking the tuning or checking the PFD to make sure the satellite signal is good enough for viewing. I got a wifi adapter for my go-pro so maybe...

No, I'm afraid not. Since I wanted to really support tablets well that involves a lot of the post 2.3 stuff :( I keep meaning to see if I can make a variant that supports 2.3 but I haven't made it a priority I'm afraid.