I’m delighted to introduce Erle-Brain v1.1 as the most complete Linux autopilot:
- powered by APM autopilot
- Open Hardware design based on the BeagleBone Black and the PixHawk Fire cape
- 3 IMUs for more robust flights
- 2x UART ports, 3x I2C ports, buzzer connector, ADC, …
- ROS Hydro and/or Indigo
- Ubuntu Snappy Core support with access to the app store for drones and robots
- Documentation available
- Support forum
Erle-Brain is being adopted by schools, universities and research centers around the world.
The journey of Erle-Brain started back on late 2013 with the BeaglePilot project giving birth of the first APM Linux-based drones and finishing up with the publication: “Towards an Open Source Linux autopilot for drones“.
Much has happened since and the BeagleBone Black was just featured at the Embedded Linux Conference as a great platform for building Linux drones.
Our love for Linux drones however goes far beyond making them fly and accomplish autonomous missions. As roboticsts we are already thinking about embedding more intelligence in our flying robots (obstacle avoidance, SLAM, image and speech recognition, …) and for that we are putting a lot of development time into the Robot Operating System (ROS). We are releasing demos such as this one. Expect more to come.
Just a few days ago we decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign: BeagleUAV. Through BeagleUAV, you’ll be able to access all the Erle-Brain for a discounted price of 150 €.
Go ahead and get yourself into Linux drones with the BeagleBone Black and the PixHawk Fire Cape ;).
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