Ardupilot To Continue As Non-Profit

New submitter buck-yar writes: The open source unmanned aerial vehicle platform, Ardupilot, has announced its creation of a non-profit organization aimed to meet the needs of the diverse developer community. With 3DRobotics recently pulling their financial support for the Ardupilot project, the developers had to take a look at how the project would continue. Yesterday, Andrew Tridgell announced the developers will create a non-profit to oversee the project similar to other non-profits in the open source community as it continues to grow. The organization will oversee the management of the documentation, the auto-build and test servers and will help set priorities for future development. "Intel has well over 10 developers devoted to DroneCode projects including at least 2 working on Ardupilot full-time and a few others improving QGroundControl to work better with Ardupilot," developer Randy MacKay writes on an Ardupilot Arducopter APM Pixhawk News forum. While the non-profit ArduPilot project and consulting businesses will be separate entities, the dev team says they will help support each other.

So many

[bobbutts]

Busy space. Just from my head we've got Ardupilot, OpenPilot, LibrePilot, Cleanflight, Baseflight.

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[andydread]

and don't forget dRonin which is a fork of TauLabs which is a fork of Openpilot.

fate of the pixhawk?

[Haven]

Anyone know the fate of the pixhawk platform?

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[andydread]

link is broken.

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[Kryptonut]

The clone market still appears to be thriving, so even if 3DR stop making the Pixhawk, you'll still be able to grab one direct from China easily enough. In fact, there are some revised, cut down (in size and some connectors) versions now in case the original is too big and bulky for your craft.