Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Questions about IMUs from PPZUAV and diydrones.com

[David Conger]

Hello,

I saw that IMU as well. That would be great if you could do that  
"little bit of work" and share it. For 129.00 I'd use it myself.

The assemblies I have are for booz. However, since people are  
currently flying quite well with IMU and Paparazzi making the booz IMU  
work with Paparazzi should not take all that much work. Not nearly as  
much as the ArduIMU.

Since I have 10 of the booz main and booz IMU in hand the only thing  
I'm waiting on is verifying they work. Granted, if you designed it or  
work with the person who designed it I'll sell you one right now  
because I could really use the money to have more made. I'm sure the  
design is just fine but we have not yet flown with it yet. If you want  
to build a booz quad rotor you need to know booz motor controllers  
don't exist yet. You'll need to use MK ones or modify your own. If you  
want to fly Paparazzi with the IMU then that's just around the corner  
as soon as the code tested and get put in SVN.

I want to be clear. Anyone can have this magical IMU now. Buy the PCB  
or have them made yourself and make them. The design is out there.  
This is nothing exclusive to PPZUAV by any means. It just seems I'm  
the first vendor to take the risk and spend a bunch of money to get  
them into the hands of people who can fly them and validate it for  
everyone. It was the same with Tiny2.11 and TWOG and GPS boards etc so  
soon after it's verified others will offer them and they will be  
plentiful :)

Have patience, if you have no patience buy the ArduIMU and let us know  
how easy it is to make it work. No one would complain if a 130.00 IMU  
worked just fine with Paparazzi.

Regards,
David

On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Maik Höpfel wrote:

> Good morning everyone,
>
> diydrones just released their new IMU
> (http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/arduimu-v2-flat-now-available)
> for $129, and it contains an ATMega to run the whole filtering stuff
> on it. So if I'm not mistaken, one could power that thing, take the
> output and use it for Paparazzi with only a little bit of work. I am
> really really looking forward to having an IMU, so what do you know
> about this one compared to the one that David Conger is soon to
> release? Any ideas on performance? Easy of integration? Cost? David,
> do you have a rough estimate when we can buy an easy-to-integrate
> working solution? I know that you're working hard on it, I just want
> to know if I should get my hopes up that it'll be here before
> Christmas ;)
>
> Regards,
> Maik
>
>
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