Re: [Paparazzi-devel] New to your project

[Antoine]

Hi Yves

Yves Touchette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm from Montreal, Canada and I have been looking into your project 
> for the last couple of days.
>
> I have a great interrest for UAV and MAV. I also have some model air 
> plane and microcontroller experiance.
>
> First let me congradulate you for some very impressive results.
>
> I was able to replay the logs and watch the GUI of the ground station 
> do it's thing, etc.
>
> I'd like to hear a little more about the direction of the project.
>
> I have so many questions :)
>
> Basically, should I invest time and money on building the AVR based 
> hardware of paparazzi2 or should I start working on the hardware 
> platform from paparazziv3?
pp2 and pp3 are only software releases . pp3 runs on both avr and arm

> About paparazzi3, will it be IMU based only, or will the IR sensor be 
> usable as well?

The current best sensor uses both infrared and gyro - on big aircrafts ( 
like twinstar ) IR alone is enough - on smallest one, gyro+IR is a must

> I'm confused about the various controlers found in the CVS... What's 
> the difference between tiny and tiny_proto? On the classix, where is 
> there two ARM processors?
tiny proto was the very first batch of the boards - tiny contains some 
enhancement and bug fixes

> Are you planning to have a single CPU (FBW and autopilot) board and a 
> dual CPU (one for FBW and one for autopilot) board?
tiny is single CPU, classix ( and their avr ancester, v1_2_1 and lite) 
are dual CPU boards

> Do you have an ARM based autopilot airworthy yet?
yes, both tiny and classix are performing very well

> Do you plan on maintaining support for the airborne hardware of 
> paparazzi2 (AVR) into the paparazzi3 ground station?
We plan to maintain support for avr boards as long as possible - But if 
you're starting I would highly recomend going for an arm boards

See you soon

Antoine

> I have so many questions, I better stop here for now :)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -yvest
>
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>
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