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andyg
May 17, 2005, 05:44 PM
I have been contemplating a project since I have gotten into microcontrollers. Would it be possible to make a UAV out of a AVR microcontroller some accelerometers and a digital compass? I still dont know how I would aquire the altitude and airspeed though. I was thinking that just to get the plane in the air and flying straight and level would be great, and then incorporate a gps into the design so it could have waypoints. Any ideas or suggestions? THANKS

sesat
May 17, 2005, 07:48 PM
AVR's are good and cheap and easy, faster than PIC's. The Paparazzi project uses it so if you go ahead with AVR's help yourself to their code.

$60 buys you a suite of IR thermopile sensors for attitude detection.


Ram.