Repurpose V2450GPS guts to run ROVER

ArduCopter SkyViper
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Hello,
I have several V2450GPS drones I purchased as a lot. They were returns from retail stores. I would like to use the hardware from a V2450GPS drone to control a ground based device that uses hoverboard motors for positioning. All the capabilities I need come with the drone so I thought maybe I could load ROVER and make hardware modifications to interface the motors.

I’m just trying to think it through right now and my first question is:
Is there a better way to go about this? i.e. Is there an off the shelf device using open source Rover similar to what SkyRocket provided for the drones that I should start with instead of re-inventing the wheel?

Thank you in advance for any advice, knowledge or directions you may have to get me started.

Best regards,
Ken

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Appears you may be able to use the custom firmware builder to build a Rover binary for the skyviper-v2450 target.

No idea what roadblocks you may encounter, but it’s the easiest thing to try first.

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That is a great place to start
Thank you for the link Yuri!

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Ken, were you able to make any progress with this? Sounds like a great idea. Could be great for a robot lawn mower.

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I don’t think so. It has limited capability. It starts with fmuv3 (old F4 stuff) and goes downhill from there:
SkyViper

I have one. I would say it’s a novelty for Arducopter.

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Thanks you the info. Please update if you come across an off the shelf solution.