What's going on here? This is a "Virtual Venice UAV race". It's based on the DIYDrones T3 figure of 8 competition.

The screncast's purpose is to show how pilots can potentially fly their planes in different parts of the world, and then have their geo position and time base altered so that they end up racing side by side in Google…

MatrixPilot 3.1 is released. The project continues to mature, with a fantastic IMU that is still moving ahead with deep research from William Premerlani. Ben Levitt continues to add amazing features such as the built-in firmware for the OSD hardware that can be attached to the UDB3.…

Reduced Yaw Drift / Fast Gyro Sampling with the UDB / MatrixPilot from Pete Hollands .

[Note: Apologies for the low sound volume in this video. Please turn your volume up.]

This is a demonstration of the reduced Yaw Drift which is possible when sampling the gyros at 30,000 times / second (Thanks to William Premerlani for this R&D and code).  Using QGroundControl and…

Testing a DIYDrones magnetometer in HK's GCS from Pete Hollands on Vimeo.

I test the DIY Drones magnetometer ( HMC5843 magnetometer breakout board ) using Happy Killmore's Ground Control Station connected using SERIAL_UDB_EXTRA telemetry format, to a UAV DevBoard V3 running

MatrixPilot (revision 729 of trunk).



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Matrix Pilot Camera Targeting: Tree Test - Software Stabilized

Strategy: Have MatrixPilot / UAV DevBoard (UDB) point camera roughly in the right direction.

Take out the jitter movement using software stabilization.

The above flight was flown on a day with 10mph of wind, with a lot of turbulence (I included the landing in the video to show the…