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  1. Re:Old idea, old teach, cheap slashvertisement by Myself · · Score: 1 · on UAV Cameras an Eye In the Sky For Adventurous Filmmakers

    Yeah, I know Rotomotion has been doing this for years. Their YouTube channel is pretty badass.

  2. Links by beauzo · · Score: 1 · on Best Way To Build A DIY UAV?

    Hardware: http://www.rotomotion.com/
    Software: http://autopilot.sourceforge.net/

  3. Re:Article is misleading by bugnuts · · Score: 1 · on World's First Lego Autopilot

    Right, this is currently vaporware, but it's a cool idea.

    Another guy that started this project is an old /. user and made an OSS project for UAVs. He has since commercialized it, but the OS project is still out there. The hardware is very cheap... like $150 iirc!

  4. Re:I went to the competition and... by RevRigel · · Score: 1 · on Aerial Robotics Competition

    That Rotomotion system is actually $5500.

  5. Re:Building your own UAV by bentfork · · Score: 1 · on New Draganflyer Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    The Observer Series 1 UAV looks like a well designed UberToy.

    But at it is a little expensive with a Price: starting at US$21,000.00 .

    A pat on the back however for the AutoPilot SourceForge project

  6. Building your own UAV by tramm · · Score: 5, Informative · on New Draganflyer Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    John Jorsett writes:
    Time to buy my own UAV
    You can buy your own from Rotomotion, or build your own with the GPLed version of the Rotomotion software from autopilot.sourceforge.net. We've been working on it for a while and now have the hardware and the code to fly a helicopter or other rotocraft autonomously. And it's Free Software, too.
  7. Commercial UAVs are already available by tramm · · Score: 5, Informative · on A.I. Helicopter?
    I've been working on building a Linux based UAV and have GPLed the software for it. We're also selling turnkey helicopter UAVs that look very much like the Mantis in the article through my company, Rotomotion.

    There is no AI onboard, so you don't have to worry about it becoming self aware and joining Skynet. We have a few more years before the machines take over.

  8. Commercial UAVs are already available by tramm · · Score: 5, Informative · on A.I. Helicopter?
    I've been working on building a Linux based UAV and have GPLed the software for it. We're also selling turnkey helicopter UAVs that look very much like the Mantis in the article through my company, Rotomotion.

    There is no AI onboard, so you don't have to worry about it becoming self aware and joining Skynet. We have a few more years before the machines take over.

  9. Re:Copy of article... by bugnuts · · Score: 1 · on Israeli Super Drone Stolen

    Model airplanes are completely different than helicopters, and flying an airplane one direction and turning around just isn't that difficult.

    However, it's wrong for a different reason. It's wrong because it's been done already. Except for takeoff and landing, Rotomotion has been doing this for months.

  10. Re:Congratulations! by tramm · · Score: 3, Informative · on TAM 5 Has landed
    martingunnarsson wrote:
    This is really a cool project, and while it might seem like a geeky hobby thing, I think it's much more important than that. I think we'll se R/C helicopters that move around on their own [...]
    Like autopilot.sourceforge.net? It is a Free Software autopilot for RC helicopters that has successfully flown for several km and been adapted to numerous different helicopter models. Rotomotion, LLC builds a commercial UAV based on the software and also sells kits for more technically inclined users of the software.
    The flight over the ocean shows that they can handle long distance flights as well, at lest in 50% of the cases :-)
    Although TAM5 was a fixed wing, not a rotorcraft, and the success rate was more like 20% (1 out of 5)...
  11. Re:Carmack et. al. @ ArmadilloAerospace .... by tramm · · Score: 3, Informative · on Linux Rocket Blasts Off This Fall
    ... have been doing this for awhile. The PC104 stack in their VTVL rockets/crafts have always been linux kernels.
    As have we at autopilot.sourceforge.net. We're not building rockets, but autonomous rotorcraft.
    He's also been using 802.11 for communications.
    Same here. Our early helicopters used CF 802.11 cards, but the cheap patch antennas could not handle the vibration. We're now using a D-Link ethernet bridge with 100baseT for the onboard network.
    His laptop control station is win32 though.
    We're not! Although the network layer and gui are all portable and do run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Win32.

    The hardware is for sale from Rotomotion, too, so you can build your own.

  12. Re:Inertial Navigation by deanpole · · Score: 2, Informative · on Technology for Mapping the Underground?

    Yes, These guys make a nice non-Microsoft part with some cool pictures of their helicopter test system.

  13. Re:Inertial Navigation by deanpole · · Score: 2, Informative · on Technology for Mapping the Underground?

    Yes, These guys make a nice non-Microsoft part with some cool pictures of their helicopter test system.

  14. Re:When are companies going to by tramm · · Score: 2 · on Micro-Helicopter Fun
    Angry white guy wrote:
    When are companies going to build a USB controller for these things?
    Rotomotion will sell you an embedded Linux based autopilot that you control with 802.11. It's not USB -- it is even better. Their products are based on the GPLed autopilot.sourceforge.net code and designs.