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Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by CHY872 on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:22AM (#8874281)
Possibly not. It seems that this runs APM, which is an open source autopilot system. On their install pages, the Raspberry Pi is listed as a companion computer (presumably to be hooked to some other device that runs the code) (which this system might not do) but the Beaglebone Black (which I guess is similar to the Raspberry Pi, so might be what they do here) requires installation of realtime patches for Linux.

This works by patching the Linux kernel to make almost all of it preemptable, (replacing spinlocks with mutexes) so interrupts can be acted on more quickly.

Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by ivereninov on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:26AM (#8874314)
We run APM on Linux. The port to Raspberry Pi is our effort and it is now supported in APM upstream.
Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by 3327 on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:19AM (#8874688)
what is the % impact on endurance?
Re:Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot by VereninovIgor on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:11PM (#8875431)
Raspberry Pi A+ with Navio+ consumes about 200mA. Compared to running motors this is almost nothing.