Re: [Paparazzi-devel] New Cortex-M4 hardware platform

[Tilman Baumann]

Rumors say Ardupilot will go RTOS and ARM Cortex as well.
Is that this, or will they come out with a announcement as well soon?

Reusing Ardupilot hardware could solve many many problems the  
community is suffering from right now...

On 26 Jul 2012, at 07:02, Meier Lorenz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to present a new hardware platform that might be an option  
> for porting the Paparazzi software stack onto it, since it's open  
> hardware, has a POSIX-like RTOS and is available readily and at a  
> very low price ($150 for the main autopilot/sensor module).
>
> It is a brand new project, but the infrastructure layers are solid  
> and we're already flying it. Starting from the Linux port of  
> Paparazzi, porting should not bee too hard (it's a POSIX/VxWorks/ 
> Unix like RTOS called NuttX).
>
> It is also important to point out that we (PX4 project /  
> contributors) don't earn any money from this design, 3DR is our kind  
> hardware producer and they really committed to very low pricing,  
> also for the servo and AR.Drone expansion boards.
>
> http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/introducing-the-px4-autopilot-system
>
> -Lorenz
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Lorenz Meier
> PhD Student
> Computer Vision and Geometry Lab
> ETH Zurich /
> Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
> http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/lomeier/
>
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