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It's entirely possible (and in fact would be a very fun hobby project for me some day) to build a hybrid autonomous drone (via GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass
by electrograv 13y ago
It's entirely possible (and in fact would be a very fun hobby project for me some day) to build a hybrid autonomous drone (via GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass, range finders, etc) that takes a queue of commands or even little high level command scripts and executes them. Video would be stored locally as well as broadcast back in real-time, in case of jamming attempt.
Edit: Apparently, according to other commenters, there are already open-source autonomous quad-copters you can hack on, which is great news to me! (And you can buy the hardware preassembled).
- blutack 13y agoWe've got a lab full of them, and if you've got $600 dollars, you can have one tomorrow. http://www.udrones.com/product_p/acrtf2.htm http://www.udrones.com/product_p/acrtf2.htm The amateur UAV community is awesome for hackers. See: ArduPilot: http://ardupilot.com http://ardupilot.com Paparazzi: http://paparazzi.enac.fr http://paparazzi.enac.fr OpenPilot: http://www.openpilot.org/ http://www.openpilot.org/ Plus PX4, MultiWii, UAVDevBoard and all the others I've forgotten
- ISL 13y agoUpvoted for awesome. Looks like the linked site claims availability of 1-2 wks?
- elteto 13y agoIndeed they exist. See Arducopter [1] for a very popular open source implementation. Their solution already supports pretty much everything you said. [1] https://code.google.com/p/arducopter/ https://code.google.com/p/arducopter/