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bern444
14th Mar 2011, 10:43
I was wandering the interweb thing and found this -ArduPilot - DIY Drones (http://diydrones.com/notes/ArduPilot)
It costs $250 and can control an amateur built UAV around 100s of waypoints and then land. I wonder how much it would cost to connect it to a Warrior?

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troddenmasses
14th Mar 2011, 12:31
That's designed to control servos on a model aircraft, so the you would have to work out a way for it to power the control surfaces in a way that can always and easily be over-ridden by the pilot. I would imagine the cost of making it actually work would be very reasonable. The cost of getting it past the CAA would be HUGE, and unless you wanted to try a business selling them it would undoubtedly be cheaper to buy one off the shelf.