[Paparazzi-devel] New Cortex-M4 hardware platform

[Meier Lorenz]

Hi all,

I'd like to present a new hardware platform that might be an option for porting 
the Paparazzi software stack onto it, since it's open hardware, has a 
POSIX-like RTOS and is available readily and at a very low price ($150 for the 
main autopilot/sensor module).

It is a brand new project, but the infrastructure layers are solid and we're 
already flying it. Starting from the Linux port of Paparazzi, porting should 
not bee too hard (it's a POSIX/VxWorks/Unix like RTOS called NuttX).

It is also important to point out that we (PX4 project / contributors) don't 
earn any money from this design, 3DR is our kind hardware producer and they 
really committed to very low pricing, also for the servo and AR.Drone expansion 
boards.

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/introducing-the-px4-autopilot-system

-Lorenz

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Lorenz Meier
PhD Student
Computer Vision and Geometry Lab
ETH Zurich /
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/lomeier/