NUTS AND VOLTS

Posted in: Nuts and Volts

APM 2.0 gets Upgraded to APM 2.5!

The new APM 2.0 revision, now better known as APM2.5! But before you start screaming that you just got an APM 2.0, let me explain that there’s NO difference in performance at all between the two, the board is still the same in terms of functionally and it runs exactly the same code as APM 2.0. We just took the liberty of throwing in a few new universal connectors in there (so accessories can be cross compatible with the new PX4 and protect the user from connecting the cable in the wrong direction), some production improvements that will allows to manufacture it faster and finally we added some protection features to protect it from those reverse polarity/short circuit lovers.


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Posted in: Developing Perspectives

GPS Tracking

One of my first jobs in electronics was helping a security specialist clear safe houses of bugs and phone taps. Paradoxically, the specialist also made a good living planting bugs, tapping phones, and recording the movement of people, vehicles, and other assets. Back then, in the pre-LoJack era, the primary means of tracking included film-based photography, manual odometer readings, and RF triangulation of short-lived, low-power RF transmitters planted on vehicles.


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