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Permalink Reply by reinaldo watanabe on June 30, 2009 at 7:13am

Nobody now?
Can somebody know, who developed ArduPilot?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Anderson on June 30, 2009 at 8:02am

We can't understand your question, I'm afraid.

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Permalink Reply by reinaldo watanabe on June 30, 2009 at 8:19am

Dont be afraid...
:)
Do you know, who developed ArduPilot?
Or ArduPilot is some project source, where anybody
contribuilt?

See you!

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Permalink Reply by Damon Pipenberg on June 30, 2009 at 8:30am

I think ArduPilot would be a good starting point for you. The code for the hardware is written in Arduino, which is basically an extension of C. The code is already well developed, so you can get a plane flying quickly, then move on to customizing it for your own goals. There is a ground station already developed with a program called Labview. If you wanted to write your own ground station software, you could certainly use Java. The ArduPilot sends data to the ground station over a serial connection, and I'm sure that Java has utilities to communicate with a serial port.

This page has links to everything you would need to purchase to get an ArduPilot setup. The hardware is already developed, so you would not need to use Quartus or Multisim, or any other hardware development software. The only software you really need is the Arduino development software.

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Permalink Reply by reinaldo watanabe on June 30, 2009 at 9:25am

Hey man! Thanks a lot!!
Now I begin understand ArduPilot. I think you right. I will take ArduPilot and study. Maybe I will buy arduino for more little fun!

Really thanks!

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