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