Autopilot Shield for Raspberry Pi
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Yep! That’s what I’m talking about. Very cool idea, this is the move in personal drone technology I’ve been waiting for. This Raspberry Pi is the Apple Macintosh of embeddable computers (I would say Arduino was the Apple I). Moving the computing platform similar to a PC into the job of controlling a robotic flying platform, it’s exactly what I’ve been hoping for. This could open up all kinds of more advanced applications. Image processing and other peripheral solutions will be easier than ever to implement.
The one big piece that’s missing is a way to package widely varied data packages and transmit/relay them to ground stations. We need standardized wireless long-range networking for these devices next. I suppose 3G data connections are the most likely candidate, but there’s not a great standardized implementation on UAS’s I’ve seen yet.