Dear
all,
I'm new to this
list, writing from Spain, and looking for information on this wonderful
paparazzi system.
First of all, I
would like to congratulate the whole paparazzi team: I have been completely
amazed by your design, progress and results in such a clever and 'tiny' way.
Just wonderful!
I'm trying to lead a
group of students in the design, build and assesment of simple UAVs. After some
Internet search, I'm pretty confident your Paparazzi system is the best option.
More specifically, as the students should learn some electronics with the
project, I am trying them to build the hardware from scratch, i.e., from the
board fabrication process to testing and tuning.
From your wiki info,
I guess the best option for this is your Tiny 2.11 design, as it is a 2-layer
board and quite easy to build.
However, I found
that the board file which is available from your cvs repository is a bit
different from the images you have published in the wiki. Is there any way to
get an updated eagle board file? I don't mind if it's not a finished or tested
board; that's right for the students, as it will give them the opportunity to
deal with the testing process (and, perhaps, with some final tuning of the
hardware). But I would like to give them something that it is coherent
with the board layout images found at the wiki. Moreover, even if the
students could carry out the full process of laying out the components and
routing, I think it would be better for them to use an already routed board,
because their project schedule is rather constrained by their ordinary term
schedules.
By the way, two more
questions related to the last one. I have not read the whole mailing list, but
most of the projects I have found use the autopilot for rather small vehicles.
Is the tiny controller compatible with large airframes?
And the last one:
What about Classix? I guess it would be more difficult for them, as it is (by
the wiki description) an experimental board. Specifically, is it sofware
compatible with the Tiny autopilot? What I can derive from the design is that
each microcontroller would need to be programmed independently, and thus
something specific would be needed. However, external devices (such as the IR
sensors, GPS, servo controller, etc.) are just the same. Is this
right?
That's all for now.
Thank you very much in advance for your help, and congratulations again for
this amazing project.
Cheers,
David
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David
Pérez-Piñar López
Grupo
de Tecnología de la Señal
Universidad de
Vigo