On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Simon Wilks <
address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>