Lego Autopilot Project Update
Posted on April 9, 2007 Comments (3)
An update to, The sub-$1,000 UAV Project from Chris Anderson – Lego Autopilot is Working!:
Our summer project is to create a sub-$1,000 UAV as a proof-of-concept for a drone competition for kids. This weekend we passed a major milestone with a successful ground test of the key elements. The video below shows the prototype working.
We’d initially intended to do all the autopilot functions in Lego, but the gyro programming turned out to be beyond our abilities. So we switched to a commercial stabilization unit to keep the plane level and just use the Lego Mindstorms for waypoint navigation.
Very cool.
Related: More Lego Learning – Lego Mindstorms NXT Podcast – Open Source for LEGO Mindstorms
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December 10th, 2007 @ 8:29 pm
“Roaches are gross. Robots are good. But — cockroach-controlled robots?..”
March 4th, 2008 @ 8:12 am
“The bot worked great in the hotel room, and then we took it the the auditorium during a break to test it on the main stage. Yikes. We were getting IR interference from everything, from LCD screens to the bright stage lights, and our reception range dropped to something around three feet…”
June 21st, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
Before the day of computers and pocket calculators all mathematics was done by hand. Great effort was expended to compose trigonometric and logarithmic tables for navigation, scientific investigation, and engineering purposes…