whoisthedaddy
150th Member!!
I have to agree with your comments on OpenPilot, it does look really interesting and in the mid to long term will almost certainly compete with MK. I would never underestimate the capability of a team of like minded, focused and intelligent individuals. (You only have to look at the success of other open source projects). At present however I had to discount it as there is no product as such, the 'Store' on the site isn't active and there is no indication of either cost or delivery timescales - they certainly aren't under any commercial pressure!! I will continue to review this as the months progress as I'm sure this will change.One of the primary drivers in the OpenPilot project is to "get it right" and not release anything to market until it is. Being completely non-profit removes the commercial pressure to release early and use customers as beta testers. So you can be sure that when v1.0 of OpenPilot does release, it will be a highly capable and thoroughly tested piece of kit. Because of this there is no current estimate on when it will be released - just "it will be released when it's ready".
CopterControl is a sub-set of OpenPilot, a single-board product without the GPS-driven position-hold, come home and waypoint type features that the full OpenPilot product will have, i.e. it's a low-cost but very capable "manual" flight system. This is in "dev release" right now so market release should be not far off.
Do you have any links or further information on CopterControl, I looked around the site and searched, even Googled it but nothing came up?
Thanks
Lee.