Hardware

Paparazzi was very successful at the JMD04 (Journées Micro Drones) competition/conference in Toulouse, France. The ENAC team won first place with the Microjet. Here is the report from Antoine Drouin.

Hi everybody

Paparazzi’s microjet won the JMD04 MAV event ( http://www.micro-uav04.net/ )

During the event, we had contact with industrials who told us they were interested in manufacturing our board. Maybe the end of the nightmare for those of you who don’t enjoy the soldering iron :)

This article is based on the gallery on the original paparazzi savannah website.

The following pictures were taken between August 2003 and October 2003.

We had developed a flight controller board similar to the autopilot one. We had been able to re-use some of their code - for example radio control receiving or servos commanding. Thanks allot Trammel.

The plane now had the potential to become fully autonomous (not controlled from ground anymore).

This article is based on the gallery on the original paparazzi savannah website.

The following pictures were taken between February 2003 and August 2003.

This was the very first version of the system. The airborne hardware was minimal. It only consisted in a GPS receiver, a pic micro-controller and a modem. The pic would transmit GPS data to the ground. The plane was steered from the ground laptop using the buddy jack input of the radio control transmitter. The plane was equipped with a genuine FMA stabilizer and we tried to pilot “through” it.