This is going to be pretty much against everything I've been posting here for the last year but hey, if it works, ship it!

Remember blog last year about lack of innovation in multirotor scene? Well, nearly a year later, and nothing changed.

Tardupilot Mega 2 has been released and is solid unobtainium. But let's take a look what it offers? Same old obsolete 8bit processor. A minor sensor refresh, switching to all-digital sensors (more on this later). A new form factor, but still full of headers and heavy/ugly. Then there's the lies about "3 processors". They're not even using MPU6000 DMP/sensor fusion stuff, it's still same ol' tarduino/AVR for main processor, and I dunno what butt they're pulling the 3rd processor from. Maybe the Atmega32U they're using for USB interface.

DJI released their "hobby" version of WK-M and promptly overpriced it. It would be cool if those guys could eventually figure out how to do PPM input and how to set ESC arming pulses to 1000us and not whatever they're doing.

Openpilot is still failing to meet demand, having production troubles (again), is in the middle of switching gyros on CopterControl, and Revolution platform is still being worked on. So you can't get a CopterControl even if you really wanted to, though demand has been slightly reduced by people buying DJI Naza and selling off their CopterControls

I had pretty good success with my 8bit flyingthing using analog Invensense gyros and ADXL accel. I did a test...Continue Reading