Re: [Paparazzi-devel] custom autopilots

[Gareth Roberts]

Maikel,

But then aren't you limited to your own board?
If you want to use the paparazzi code, it makes sense to use a paparazzi  
board.
If your board is new, untested and possibly buggy, and you try and port  
parts of paparazzi to it, the debugging is going to be the kind of thing  
that makes developers retrain as tree surgeons.
If you are going to be limited to a board, it makes sense to use the same  
one as everyone else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here

--G

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:10:59 -0000, Maikel Punie <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> hey,
>
> well with doing this, we are not limited to the paparazzi boards
>
> actually i was hoping to just reuse the paparazzi code, but run it on our
> own board, so we are not limited to the paparazzi boards.
>
> regards,
> Maikel
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 15:57, Reto Büttner <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Maikel,
> >
> > do you really want to re-invent all the stuff like serial gps chip,
> > gps parser, i2c IMU, wireless data modem and servo controller? It has
> > all been done in Paparazzi and is available open source. It is well
> > structured, soundly tested and has many features.
> >
> > What added value are you expecting when you develop it yourself again?
> >
> > Cheers, Reto
> >
> > 2011/1/12 Maikel Punie <address@hidden>:
> > > hey,
> > >
> > > we are a group of students working on some sort of uav,
> > > at the moment we are working with custom components,
> > >
> > > main controller board: foxboardLX
> > > serial (ttl level) gps chip (NMEA outpu)
> > > i2c IMU (9 degrees of freedom)
> > > ac4780 transceivers for comunications
> > > serial servo controller (polulu)
> > >
> > > at the moment we have the basics working,
> > > parsing gps data, communication channel from ground to aircraft to
> > control
> > > the servos
> > >
> > > How hard would it be to adapt the paparazzi source to work on this  
> > custom
> > > board? where do we start for this?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Maikel
> > >
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