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I’ve sent one of the early prototypes of FreeIMU v0.4 to Tilman from μmicrocopters so that he could help us with testing. Tilman just sent me the following great pictures, looking awesome to me!

I recently bought a couple of JeeNode v6, a small form arduino compatible board which has wireless communication capabilities through the RFM12B module. I’ll be using this in an internet of things project we are prototyping at University. Btw, since the boards came in kits you had to assemble, I took the camera out and recorded the process. The video

The testing of FreeIMU v0.4 is proceeding nicely.. finally my friends Tilman and Warthox received their boards and as soon as they could they mounted them on their quadcopters for some flying tests. They used the brand new MultiWii software which me, timecop and Alexinparis have produced… the result? Judge it by yourself.. p.s.: huge thanks to Warthox and Tilman for

The FreeIMU library has traditionally only supported FreeIMU boards out of the box. However, changing it to support Sparkfun’s IMUs has always been very simple and it has been done by many people. Unfortunately, it seems that many are still unable to modify the library by themselves so I finally decided to add support for

I was reading about variable length arguments for functions in the C programming language and I thought, “hey, will this thing work on an Arduino?”.. well, it turns out that yes, it’s working great! But, what are functions with a variable length? Well, the standard C printf function is a good example (not available on Arduino of

On Wednesday I’ve been invited to visit Kitegen. What’s that? Well, it’s an EU founded research project aimed to produce energy from high altitude winds by means of a kite based system. A good introduction to the project in English is given in this article while Italians can watch this SuperQuark episode (SuperQuark is an Italian television program about science).?Why

Just a quick update on the FreeIMU v0.4 production. We’ve finally received all the components needed to start the assembling. Yes, also the MPU6050 🙂 In this video I show you our nicely panelized design with all the various reels needed for factory production. Here is a more detailed picture of our panel:

If you open a web browser and point it to google.co.uk then search for KiCad, which is an awesome free/libre/open source Electronic Design Automation used to design circuits and printed circuits boards, you’ll be shown this advertising: Is Farnell supporting KiCad? Of course not: if you click the link you’ll be brought to this webpage in which Farnell

Good news. The factory production of FreeIMU v0.4 has been completely successful and now the boards have been assembled, tested and shipped to Jussi’s viacopter.eu, Paul’s flyduino.de and Stefano’s sdmodel.it. We still didn’t fixed the shops opening date/time but expect it to be pretty soon. I’ll post here later the date/time as usual. I’ve been able to make a

I’m happy to inform you that today, Friday 2nd March at 18:00 CET the new FreeIMU v0.4, featuring the MPU6050 accelerometer and gyroscope, the HMC5883L magnetometer and the MS5611 high resolution barometer, will be finally up for sale online. The shops which will sell FreeIMU v0.4 are:Jussi’s ViaCopter: http://viacopter.eu/Stefano’s SDModel: http://www.sdmodel.it/Paul’s Flyduino: http://flyduino.net/ I don’t still have the exact