History

The project was born in early 2014 following a series of attempts to implement Raspberry Pi based controller. While Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to drive vehicles like quadcopters, it has some limitations. In particular lack of hardware clock and very average support from real-time operating systems.

With time it became apparent that RPi is better to be used for much more advanced tasks - like serving WWW, managing USB devices, taking videos and pictures while the critical tasks (quadcopter stabilisation) should be moved to a dedicated device. As such a decision was made to include Arduino Pro Mini due to money and space constraints.

The setup of RPi along with Arduino Pro Mini has proven to be a perfect combination.