Openpilot flight control board
Open Pilot is a new flight control platform for multicopters. As I understand it has a faster and generally better performing hardware than e.g arduino based platforms such as Arducopter and Multiwiicopter. The software code for multicopters is called Copter Control and is open source.
It is really small too, only 36×36 mm. Unfortunately it doesn’t have enough outputs for my needs. It only has 6 outputs, and I need 6 for the motors on my Y6 hexacopter and 2 for my 2 axis stabilized camera mount.
It’s also cheap. Less than 100 dollars, which is about the same price as a KKmulticopter control board (except Hobby King’s light version which is only 30 dollars).
Copter Control for Open Pilot
Here is a video with some information about Open Pilot and Copter Control
And here is the first episode from Open Pilot TV
Warthox flies an Open Pilot Copter Control quadrocopter
There is a new firmware that is in progress that will give you many more outputs if you used a Futaba or Spektrum satellite only. This will allow for hex/octo + camera servos.
When will open pilot be ready to control an octocopter? Would it be possible to have a camera control, on/off and half press for focus built in?
Many thanks
Ackording to the comments (from open pilot team members) in this post its possible to use 10 outputs if you use PPM tx.
http://multicopterworld.com/2011/10/my-different-multicopter-flight-controllers-compared/