The UAV dev board v2 from Sparkfun has arrived, a big thanks goes out to Tim Carr at Mindkits for organising this.

It is intended that this UAV board will provide all of our unmanned flight control and navigation. It has 3 gyroscopes, a triple axis accelerometer and a powerful dsPIC processor.

The other components we ordered this time include:

OpenLog – A tiny Serial to Micro SD card recorder powered by the ATMega 328. This will serve as a black box for our experiments in the likely event of catastophic failure, with flames.

VenusGPS – A 10Hz GPS unit for high speed GPS tracking information; this will hopefully improve the accuracy of the UAV system. We look forward to contributing to the MatrixNav software which powers the UAV board by adding support for this inexpensive but powerful GPS.