Hi all,
First off, I'm sorry if this comes across as spam. I am posting this because I genuinely think that we can help the community do some awesome things with their Phantom and other UAV's
Some Background On Myself and Our Company
My name is Kevin and I am a co-founder of an exciting drone startup called NVdrones. Three years ago, a few friends and I started building drones as a hobby, and after months of buying kits, building our own frames, fiddling with electronics, etc. we realized a few glaring things. The first was that although drones can be used for many amazing things, customizing the software/hardware to apply to different areas was extremely difficult. For instance, you can pretty easily fly to different GPS waypoints, but if you want to simply add a servo motor and drop something off at a certain location, things become unnecessarily tricky. The second realization was that there are so many different platforms/flight controllers out there that we wanted a way to create an application and run that application on different platforms/FC's.
Our Company Mission
We are creating a platform that allows drone software development to be as easy as web or mobile development (if you've worked with Arduino before you'll feel right at home), and anyone with our hardware can run those applications on unique platforms/FC's (our hardware works with any FC that communicates over PPM/PWM, which includes the Naza, Pixhawk, Ardupilot, and many others).
Product Specs
We wanted to make our system as general as possible (for the purpose of working on many systems and applying for both B2B and B2C applications) as well as offload as much of the processing as possible (to lower the costs of the CPU). Here are the specifications of our electronics:
I've also attached a picture of the dev board.
Coding Languages
We currently offer an Arduino SDK and will release Android and Javascript SDK's very soon.
Looking for Third-Party Beta Developers!
We've spent a lot of effort the past year creating this platform and are super excited that we're at a point where people can start testing our system. If you're interested in using what we've created, you can register at developers.nvdrones.com and see the documentation that we have so far. Since our goal is to make everything as simple as possible, we'll be improving the documentation/support that we offer on a weekly basis.
We're also working on improving the safety our system in respect to implementing no-fly-zones (we're working together with noflyzone.org), improving the failsafe technology to prevent flyaways, and improving the robustness of the system to decrease the amount of human error.
You can check us out for an interview that we did for That Drone Show [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjcn4vS70dk[/youtube]
We'll also be demo'ing at International Drone Day in Las Vegas on March 14.
Any Questions?
Please respond to this post or e-mail [email protected] if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, about our platform and we'll get back to you ASAP. Happy flying!
Kevin
First off, I'm sorry if this comes across as spam. I am posting this because I genuinely think that we can help the community do some awesome things with their Phantom and other UAV's
Some Background On Myself and Our Company
My name is Kevin and I am a co-founder of an exciting drone startup called NVdrones. Three years ago, a few friends and I started building drones as a hobby, and after months of buying kits, building our own frames, fiddling with electronics, etc. we realized a few glaring things. The first was that although drones can be used for many amazing things, customizing the software/hardware to apply to different areas was extremely difficult. For instance, you can pretty easily fly to different GPS waypoints, but if you want to simply add a servo motor and drop something off at a certain location, things become unnecessarily tricky. The second realization was that there are so many different platforms/flight controllers out there that we wanted a way to create an application and run that application on different platforms/FC's.
Our Company Mission
We are creating a platform that allows drone software development to be as easy as web or mobile development (if you've worked with Arduino before you'll feel right at home), and anyone with our hardware can run those applications on unique platforms/FC's (our hardware works with any FC that communicates over PPM/PWM, which includes the Naza, Pixhawk, Ardupilot, and many others).
Product Specs
We wanted to make our system as general as possible (for the purpose of working on many systems and applying for both B2B and B2C applications) as well as offload as much of the processing as possible (to lower the costs of the CPU). Here are the specifications of our electronics:
- CPU: ATmega2560
10 programmable digital pins: with PWM support
Fly-home: Failsafe Functionality Built-in
Serial buss: SPI, I2C, and UART.
External power: 4 power ports for servos, actuators and anything else needing extra power (total of 1 amp)
Xbee: Swappable module for wireless communication.
I've also attached a picture of the dev board.
Coding Languages
We currently offer an Arduino SDK and will release Android and Javascript SDK's very soon.
Looking for Third-Party Beta Developers!
We've spent a lot of effort the past year creating this platform and are super excited that we're at a point where people can start testing our system. If you're interested in using what we've created, you can register at developers.nvdrones.com and see the documentation that we have so far. Since our goal is to make everything as simple as possible, we'll be improving the documentation/support that we offer on a weekly basis.
We're also working on improving the safety our system in respect to implementing no-fly-zones (we're working together with noflyzone.org), improving the failsafe technology to prevent flyaways, and improving the robustness of the system to decrease the amount of human error.
You can check us out for an interview that we did for That Drone Show [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjcn4vS70dk[/youtube]
We'll also be demo'ing at International Drone Day in Las Vegas on March 14.
Any Questions?
Please respond to this post or e-mail [email protected] if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, about our platform and we'll get back to you ASAP. Happy flying!
Kevin