Re: [Paparazzi-devel] New Cortex-M4 hardware platform

[Chris Gough]

> Rumors say Ardupilot will go RTOS and ARM Cortex as well.
> Is that this, or will they come out with a announcement as well soon?

The stated plan for some time was for ArduPilot to follow Arduino to
onto a Samsung ARM platform, and there has been some progress but it
seems to be dragging out more slowly than expected. If some of the
influential Ardu* developers remain enthusiastic about migrateing to
NuttX, it seems unlikely that the community would try to follow both
paths. I predict the roadmap will be clear by the end of the Christmas
holiday season. Watch for public statements by Tridge a few weeks
after he finishes focussing on OBC2012, he's pretty much the thought
leader.

> Reusing Ardupilot hardware could solve many many problems the community is
> suffering from right now...

Well, it's not ArduPilot but 3DR hardware produced on the same scale :)

I've been talking to Chris Anderson / 3DR about organising developer
discounts on PX4 hardware to paparazzi devs that want to port to it.
Not free unfortunately, more like the wholesale price that 3DR
distributors pay. It's not a done deal yet, but seems like it should
be possible. What's the fairest/best way to judge that, GIT committers
(there's only 6)? people listed in the AUTHORS file on the master
branch (and thus let the comitters arbitrate)?

Chris Gough

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Tilman Baumann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rumors say Ardupilot will go RTOS and ARM Cortex as well.
> Is that this, or will they come out with a announcement as well soon?
>
> Reusing Ardupilot hardware could solve many many problems the community is
> suffering from right now...
>
>
> On 26 Jul 2012, at 07:02, Meier Lorenz wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to present a new hardware platform that might be an option for
>> porting the Paparazzi software stack onto it, since it's open hardware, has
>> a POSIX-like RTOS and is available readily and at a very low price ($150 for
>> the main autopilot/sensor module).
>>
>> It is a brand new project, but the infrastructure layers are solid and
>> we're already flying it. Starting from the Linux port of Paparazzi, porting
>> should not bee too hard (it's a POSIX/VxWorks/Unix like RTOS called NuttX).
>>
>> It is also important to point out that we (PX4 project / contributors)
>> don't earn any money from this design, 3DR is our kind hardware producer and
>> they really committed to very low pricing, also for the servo and AR.Drone
>> expansion boards.
>>
>> http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/introducing-the-px4-autopilot-system
>>
>> -Lorenz
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Lorenz Meier
>> PhD Student
>> Computer Vision and Geometry Lab
>> ETH Zurich /
>> Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
>> http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/lomeier/
>>
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