Hooray!
Finally, my ArduPilot Mega has arrived. It is going control my aircraft when autopilot mode is enabled. I have ordered it from the
diydrones store. If there is time, I hope that I can get some test data tomorrow, but first I need to solder all the pin headers.
The setup consists of a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axis gyro, a GPS and a pressure meter. It is nice that the whole project is based on arduino, which is an open source project. I have already had a good impression of arduino. I have been experimenting some with an arduino uno.
Below is there a picture on my kit. The red board is the main shield with 16MHz Atmega1280, the blue board is the IMU shield with all the sensors and the small blue board is the GPS unit.
The plane I have chosen to make into a drone is my brother's old 0.20 model, which never got airborne. It was just laying there on the loft as shown in the picture at the bottom. I can not really remember the name of the plane, but I will check it up later. Hopefully, my motor and batteries will come tomorrow. It would be good if I can test the plane as soon as possible to see if it is flyable.
