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Re:Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable ... by ap46 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:37AM (#14201940)
Ardupilot on MEGA2560 with a Pi/Odroid for any video processing would be fine. You can get away with a 3500mAh battery on a quad w/ 1045 props & 1000KV motors for 15-20mins.

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Re:Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable ... by fest on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:13AM (#14202308)
Ardupilot team has stopped firmware development for APM1/APM2 boards in 2015. I wouldn't advise buying it now with intent to work on stabilization firmware.
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Re:Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable ... by ap46 on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:35AM (#14209625)
Yeah but stabilisation doesn't change over time, for the most part it still remains PID based. 8-bit MCUs are so under-utilised & 32-bit processors are simply an overkill & barrier to people getting started.
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Re:Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable ... by fest on Friday April 28, 2017 @06:34AM (#14218281)
The attitude stabilization- yes, I would agree.

But the development mostly seems to concentrate around higher level, position and navigation controllers and there is a lot of complex floating point math going on there.

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Re:Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable ... by nanospeck on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:00AM (#14202039)
Interesting. How do I pm you?
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Re:Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable ... by ap46 on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:36AM (#14209631)
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