Adrucopter/Pixhawk in 100% autonomous drone?

[ppoirier]

Hello,

Take a look at what I have accomplished with OpenMV and a RPI a few years ago:

QuadCopter Object Tracking on a budget

This project is a variation of the original Rand’ys Red Balloon Finder implementation. Based on this blog : http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/red-balloon-finder , I modified the Python scripts making now possible to test on any ArduPilot based Quadcopter on a low budget , relatively easy to implement controler. How does it work ? Using a Companion Computer -Raspberry Pi Zero - and Drone Kit Python, we are switching to GUIDED mode so that we are controlling an ArduPilot based Flight Control…