[Paparazzi-devel] Gumstix wants to provide a Paparazzi/Overo Platform

[Simon Wilks]

Hi All,

I have been in touch with the guys at Gumstix (gumstix.com) over the last weeks to see if they would be interested in taking over the Lisa/L board, manufacturing and selling it seeing it allows you to mount their Overos. This didn't get too far unfortunately.

But there is good news though!

They would like to use the "RoboVero (https://www.gumstix.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=262) as a baseline and modify it for UAV applications. It will use the LPC1769". This means an established company will be selling a Paparazzi board onto which you will be able to mount an Overo, as is possible with the Lisa/L :)

They are about to wind up the hardware design for "an adaption of the RoboVero for UAV use" and have asked for any feedback from the Paparazzi community. It's a pretty broad request, so take a look at the board and think it over.

As far as porting the Paparazzi code base goes, they haven't looked into the code yet, though I imagine they would be interested in anyone interested in supporting this effort. If you are interested in helping out with development then let me know here as well.

My proposal is that you respond to this Email and I will forward it to Gumstix. I will of course get back to you all once I get their feedback and by which time I also hope to have a better understanding of what their plans are and how we might be able to work together. 

By the way, apparently they have already been in contact with some people from the Paparazzi community and Quadshot, though I haven't seen any mention of this on the list. If any of you have more information on this then I would love to know.

This sounds really exciting :) Here is your chance to help make it happen! If you can't wait, you might want to pick up the RoboVero board, I did ;)

Simon