Greetings to all! I am the author of the Sky Republic project. We are building an airship (You can check our project on FB Sky Republic Airships).
I accidentally got into my hands a PixHawk 2 cube controller. I had never used an ardupilot before, but many praise it.
My airship has a rather specific mechanics, this is something between a qonvertoplane and an ordinary blimp. As far as I see, the ardupilot works from the box for most common drones constructions. But I have not yet figured out how difficult it will be to adapt it to my project.
I used to try making my own controller and software, but eventually realized that I was inventing a bicycle. I would like to use the possibilities of missionplaner and other features of ardupilot.
Does it make sense to try? Any suggestions in what direction to move?
So far I am planning something like:
An onboard Linux computer with a 4g network access, communication with ardupilot via UART. Motors, servos, and air pumps communicate with pixHawk via CAN bus (I used to try rs485 and modbus because of long distance between controller and peripheria, but I think that “CAN” is more appropriate), GPS and pressure/temperature sensors via i2c… so nothing very difficult.
P.S. I decided to accelerate and finish the project faster, because The ghouls who seized power in my country finally gone crazy.
