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Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by klinquist on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:21AM (#8874271)
Typically, APM/MavLink runs on a Arduino (my Quanum CX-20 quad runs an Mega 2650). This looks like this is a Raspberry Pi shield that I suspect contains an ATmega - so it's not Linux that is doing the flight controlling.
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Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by ivereninov on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:24AM (#8874295)
Actually we run APM code ported to Linux, there is no Atmega on the board. There was a lot done to make this possible including special real-time Raspbian. It flies very stable and with great timing performance.
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Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by klinquist on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:26AM (#8874312)
Very interesting, thanks!
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