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Drones 101 Series on HAK5 - Episode 2
Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1Bit Squared is working together with Darren Kitchen of HAK5 on a series about Open Source Drones, explaining what Drones/UAV/UAS are, how to build, operate, program, and calibrate them. Here is the second episode in the series titled, Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1612. These episodes will air on Tuesdays on the Revision3 HAK5 channel on a semi-regular basis.   In this episode Piotr and Darren discuss drone basics. How they are put together, what are their components, how they operate and what makes them special.   Read more...
Drones 101 Series on HAK5 - Episode 1
Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1Bit Squared is working together with Darren Kitchen of HAK5 on a series about Open Source Drones, explaining what Drones/UAV/UAS are, how to build, operate, program, and calibrate them. Here is the first episode in the series titled, Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1611. These episodes will air on Tuesdays on the Revision3 HAK5 channel on a semi-regular basis.   In this episode Piotr and Darren build an Open-Source autonomous aerial system.   Read more...
Lisa/S Progress
Hi everyone, We would like to bring you up to date with the current status of the Lisa/S progress. We know it is long overdue and we promise to post updates more often from now on. As you might know, the Lisa/S you have seen on pictures and in press articles, was the first prototype version 0.1. Since last year we have learned a lot about the hardware and focused on a few places for potential improvement. We wanted to make these improvements before we produce a few hundred of... Read more...
Paparazzi UAV Installation Tutorial for Ubuntu GNU Linux
This is the third installment of the Paparazzi UAV tutorial series. Covering the installation process for Ubuntu GNU Linux.   Read more...
Paparazzi UAV Source Installation Tutorial for Mac OS X Mavericks
This is the second installment of the Paparazzi UAV tutorial series. Covering the source installation process for Mac OS X Mavericks.   Read more...
Paparazzi UAV Basic Installation Tutorial for Mac OS X Mavericks
We started a series of tutorials explaining the basics of the Paparazzi UAV software framework.   The first installment explains the Basic Installation for Mac OS X Mavericks.   Read more...
'World’s Smallest Drone Autopilot System Goes Open Source'
Our Lisa/S autopilot has been featured in Wired. Here are a few things the article had to say about our board.   'The Lisa/S chip is 4 square-centimeters — about the same size as a Euro coin.' 'It’s the world’s smallest drone autopilot system — over 30 grams lighter than its predecessor' Read more...
'A drone inside everybody's pocket'
Bart Remes of TU-Delft MAVLab speaking at TEDxAmsterdam. The topic, 'A drone inside everybody's pocket'. Bart demonstrates the ease of flight with a Lisa/S autopilot powered nano quadrocopter. Read more...
Civil Drones Interview at 30C3
Interview with 1BitSquared founder Piotr Esden-Tempski and Philip Banse of dctpTV on Civil Drones at 30c3. They discussed the current state of civil drones, and what we can expect to see in the future. The interview was conducted in German. Read more...
'A Teeny, Tiny Autopilot'
IEEE Spectrum wrote an article covering Lisa/S, they had some kind things to say about our autopilot. It contains a very nice quote by Sebastian Scherer, a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University; "These kinds of autopilots are very common, however, the size makes it special". Read more...
Drones Talk at 30C3
1BitSquared founder, Piotr Esden-Tempski talks about Open Source domestic Drones at 30c3. His talk featured the Lisa/S autopilot and covered the history of domestic drones and UAV, from the perspective of his involvement in the hobby and developer community. Read more...
Lisa/S at TU-Delft
Our friends at the TU-Delft MAVLab have made a video showing Lisa/S flying on a Quadrocopter and Helicopter. In the video you can see the Paparazzi UAV software compiled for Lisa/S stabilize and control the aircraft. It is using the SuperbitRF module to receive control commands from a Spektrum RC transmitter. All the necessary software is integrated into the master software branch of Paparazzi. Read more...