COSME + Raspberry Pi + quadcopter = COSMEcopter

COSMEcopter is a spin-off project which mixes a few different but complementary disciplines, while assuring that everybody is having lots of fun!!


COSMEcopter is a project intended to collaboratively specify, design and build a  a slightly uncommon type of quadcopter.
Why uncommon?. Well, do not forget that our goal is not building a copter, but using it as a testbed for the COSME framework running on a small linux computer.

So, in our case, we are necessarily going to use these two products:

• COSME  as the middleware platform for the control software
• a raspberry pi as OBC (on-board computer) and communications hub (via wifi)

Keep listening. We`ll get you informed.

The first electronic components arrived a few weeks ago

A few Raspberry Pis, accelerometers, magnetometers, etc. are waiting...

A COSME demo client application shows up in a Raspberry Pi

After having installed OpenJDK, trying to execute an existing COSME client demo was the next logical step.
Fortunately, this java UI demo run smoothly but, as the X windowing is *still* not hardware accelerated, the impact on the CPU was pretty high. We look forward to see this topic solved in the near future. Then, the raspberry will be a good choice when an inexpensive UI terminal is needed (=> which is always ;-)

On the server side, a few experiments are still on the way... A non RT COSME implementation is expected to be tried in the near future.