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Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Dronecode Project
garymortimer writes with news about a project that hopes to create an open source code platform for drones. "The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the founding of the Dronecode Project. The Project will bring together existing open source drone projects and assets under a nonprofit structure governed by The Linux Foundation. The result will be a common, shared open source platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Founding members include 3D Robotics, Baidu, Box, DroneDeploy, Intel, jDrones, Laser Navigation, Qualcomm, SkyWard, Squadrone System, Walkera and Yuneec. Dronecode includes the APM UAV software platform and associated code, which until now has been hosted by 3D Robotics, a world leader in advanced UAV autopilot and autonomous vehicle control. The company was co-founded by Chris Anderson, formerly editor-in-chief of Wired"
SkyNet!
Perhaps a mind to near-future practical applications. If you had proposed 10 years ago, that they focus on setting aside relevant code for linux on cell phones, people might have had similar concerns.
Small-scale quadrotor drone control software is likely going to be a big deal over the next decade. Maybe not a huge deal. Maybe not something else might angle into the same area better, but lots of people are trying to come up with a way to do something clever with drones.
I'm looking forward to the branch of development that can take out other drones such as Amazon Monopolizers and assorted police / military drones. Possible features include pointing lasers to 'paint' them for arduino controlled ground based rapidfire paintball targeting, spraying crazy glue or webbing into their rotors, and of course flipping the damn things over. Set up a hawk's perch with some solar panels & magnetic inductance charger, fella could have a good time in Vegas w a few of these.
--hongpong.com
Drones kill brown babies. Aerobots deliver tacos.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
they want their open source drone platform back. http://robots-everywhere.com/p...
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
It is already trivially easy to hack most open source drones. The majority of users don't change their telemetry radio settings from the default, and there is no encryption.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA598977
T as in Terrestrial. Not having been much into UAV's, to me, the most impressive UTV is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why not any other particular field?
Precisely! I was looking for a decent open-source missile guidance system, but alas, to no avail.
Ezekiel 23:20
They might as well invite the NSA as you can bet they will be all over this code and group anyway. It reminds me of the guy who built a cheap and effective cruise missile. First they shut him down in the US so he moved I believe to New Zealand where the US governemnt again shut him down. The missles were not armed and the guy hand machined small jet engines to push the missles and laptops for internal guidance systems. In essence he took a two million dollar machine and reduced it to an effective machine for about 50K. . Although the military does not get the point we are now building weapons we can not afford to fire and engaging in modes of war that will bankrupt our nation. Not meaning to sound unfeeling but war does reduce to the bucks spent to bodies torn apart no matter how we like to see it. This was the same as the tragedy in Vietnam. We could have fired one good nuclear missle for a couple of million bucks and saved over a decade of violence and billions upon billions of money would have been saved and on top of that we would have had zero wounded and zero dead soldiers. That war would have ended in the first ten minutes. Notions of kinder and gentler wars may be counter productive or maybe the question is quiter and gentler to who?