Opensource UAV's

[radiohound]

Thought these might be of interest to people. Here are some sources of code and hardware design that are free for people to use.

Code and paper on making a UAV with a SBX controller. This gentleman received 3rd place in the controller competition.
http://www.parallax.com/sx/contest/contest_airplane_autopilot.asp

A PIC processor using PicBasic code for GPS UAV flight.
http://rcpilot.sourceforge.net/modules/rcap/

pcb board for above is available here: http://www.scalerobotics.com/store

Amtel processor controlled UAV
http://www.nongnu.org/paparazzi/index.html

And their thermopile schematic http://www.uavs.net

haven't read too far into this yet, but looks interesting. Normal 4 thermopiles are used for tilt sensing, but also has a 10 x 10 thermopile array $ensor. Nice looking pusher plane though!
http://www.circuitcellar.com/PSoC2004/winners/c2963.htm

Horizon sensing paper
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/horizon_sensing_autopilot.pdf

Steve's UAV with code for alt, speed, etc
www.steveonweb.com/index.php?id=6,0,0,1,0,0

and http://www.uavs.net

Here is a thermopile based, 2 axis sensor based on the Paparazzi sensor. You can buy this from http://www.scalerobotics.com/store

[PHaze]

Here's another one (http://autopilot.sourceforge.net/).

[Aethertek]

Thanks for the links...

[Jeff85]

How do I get a bat model it's from Germany? This is on the link about the gentleman who got 3rd place.
http://www.acteurope.de/html/bat.html (http://)

[radiohound]

Here's the price list for the Bat, and others. Sounds like you should call them up to order....

http://www.acteurope.de/Intpreisliste1_05.pdf

[Jeff85]

I already downloaded that and send e-mail no reply. Their web site gives USA distributor as Hobby Lobby and Hobbieco but no luck.