LibrePilot and Scripts
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I am part of a team that would like to re-launch the CC3D Revolution. For beginners and hobbyist it is an ideal solution. I don't see anything archaic about it. LibrePilot is by far much much more simpler than the cumbersome Mission Planner. Also, why should beginners be subjected to expensive controllers such as pixhawk?
I still run Archaic stuff myself. Mostly Adupilot and dRonin which run on older hardware. I am all for people bringing back and supporting older hardware. I have a ton of F3 hardware.
By archaic, I basically meant unmaintained.
Have you looked at dRonin at all? It is in the same boat but was a fork from LibrePilot and more recently maintained. https://dronin.org/ I may be able to dig up old devs from both projects.
Ardupulot does run on quite a bit of less expensive F4 boards like the Matek F405-wing and SpeedyBee F405.
Cheers!
LitterBug
By archaic, I basically meant unmaintained.
Have you looked at dRonin at all? It is in the same boat but was a fork from LibrePilot and more recently maintained. https://dronin.org/ I may be able to dig up old devs from both projects.
Ardupulot does run on quite a bit of less expensive F4 boards like the Matek F405-wing and SpeedyBee F405.
Cheers!
LitterBug
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The reason that we are particularly interested in the CC3D Revolution is that fact that it also uses the STMF4 series. This s a powerful chip and Pixhawk series also base their fc on this chip. Also, LibrePilot supports custom scripts, though I am more of a hardware engineer, and programmer, I am not too familiar with Lua scripts. I would like some input here. Also, we intend to upgrade the board with an I2C port which will allow additional modules such as obstacle avoidance etc.
Take a look a at dRonin. I think it may have i2c support already for a few boards.
I have a few cc3d Revolution boards laying around that have the built in sik radios as well. I thought the Revolution supported i2c on one of the expansion ports. Have to run to work but can look later tonight.
Count me in for support/debugging. PM me with any info on getting involved.
Cheers!
LitterBug
I have a few cc3d Revolution boards laying around that have the built in sik radios as well. I thought the Revolution supported i2c on one of the expansion ports. Have to run to work but can look later tonight.
Count me in for support/debugging. PM me with any info on getting involved.
Cheers!
LitterBug
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Very interesting. Downloaded the DRonin and went through it briefly .Yes we have a research team particularly targeting the CC3D Revolution. Under the free GNU license, we acquired the GERBER, BOM and schematics of the CC3D Revolution with OPlink telemetry on board.
Our goal is to re-launch this amazing piece of flight controlling hardware with the following modifications:
1. Increased memory (at least to 4Mb)
2. Onboard I2C breakout
3. Python or C++ program loader. Alternately we would like to integrate the CC3D Revolution with an arduino such as Uno etc. This integration could be in the form of serial commands to the arduino. The serial commands could be sent from an editbox programmed in dRonin.
I will certainly include you into the Research Team and update you.
The original Revo can do I2C and/or SPI using the Flexi connectors.
yes saw that, but it will have to be via a UART to I2C convertor plug. Our design will have a direct plug in
Our team went through dRonin.
1. It has an unfixed bug which "disconnects" randomly. On the FC this could be catastrophic
2. It does have some extra features such as camera etc.
3. No script loading facility.
4. The mode parameters in the path planner seems incomplete. Although SetAccessory is available in dropdown menu, but no option to select the accessory (eg: channel 6 etc)
5. Quiting from dRonin sometimes freezes.
I would think that librePilot seems quite stable and easy. Unfortunately the LibrePilot forum died.
We on the other hand are strictly hardware engineers specializing in the setup/modifying hardware especially for the CC3D Revolution upgrade and would really like to promote the Autonomous Flight modes and setup of this flight controller using LiberPilot.
Perhaps we should launch a dedicated forum for LibrePilot/ CC3D Revolution.? Or request the management of this forum to allow for a dedicated Thread?
What is your comment.
The "revolution" is probably one of the most supported FCs out there. Including BetaFlight, INAV, ArduPilot, etc...
If you truly want to restart development of LibrePilot, I would try to get those forums started back up.
LB
That would be great, in the last 12 months we were inundated with LibrePilot support (from the learning centers here in South Africa). On other forums I did notice a keen interest in LibrePilot being inactive and no new members could sign up.
Also just recently the University of Johannesburg requested a detailed documentation on Autonomous flights using LibrePilot and the CC3D Revolution. This will be used as part of their drone training projects. I could not get any detailed literature on setting advanced waypoints and actions related to them. If you know of any such documentation please advise.
Bilo bi strateški važno pokušati doprijeti do timova za razvoj softvera iz open, libre pilota i TauLabsa, mislim da je Sparky 2 njihov. za modifikaciju koda. if hardware modernizations of interpreter scripts, python Lua, whatever.
