Sunday, March 29, 2009

End game approaching fast...

So after a spring break trip to Kansas and some work stuff I'm back in the saddle. Minutes before we left I was able to verify that my coordinates from the gps unit were good.

After I realized that the output was in degrees/decimal minutes, not degrees/minutes/seconds I was able to plot my exact position from inside my duplex! Google maps even put me on the correct side of the street - hooo raaay!

With that revelation I'm back to hacking up some code to get the motors to do something.
Additionally I found a really cool uav project - ArduPilot to rip apart. Hopefully with some simplification (I don't need pitch/altitude) I can save some serious time.

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