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  1. Hey Overwraith, I've talked to my engineers, who have informed me that if you are using i2c to interface with the Edison you are essentially more limited by weight/size than anything else as far as connectivity goes. If however you would prefer to use an Arduino shield you would be looking at the standard 13 Digital and 6 Analog inputs. As for your suggestion for injection radio's, we were a little more interested in what exactly you wanted to use them for. If its for packet injection type stuff you would have full access to that Edison computer to be able to do as you would like. The forge environment is just a more user friendly view/access to that world. This may of course require more hardware but that's kind of the idea behind Eedu. We never would have thought of this idea and no one out there is going to make a drone do what specifically what your asking...we do however try to make it easier for anyone to do whatever they want with a drone...which may be what your looking for.
  2. Cooper: our flight control system is built by us from the ground up. Part of this included getting rid of the Edison shield and incorporating it into our main board (while also getting rid of things that were unneeded and taking up excess space) We are using an Edison as our co-processor for handling all tasks that are not realtime critical. This makes it so that the user doesn't have to worry about PID tuning (unless they want to) and leaves the Edison to do all the heavy lifting of the programs running on it so that flight worthiness (multiple failsafes) is never effected. Edison has excellent performance/watt throughput, integrated BT + Wifi connectivity, and a flexible yocto recipe, which makes it very attractive for our applications. I’m not sure what you mean here. Compilation time is first of all, very minimal, because most of the existing components are already compiled and provided as binaries by our image running on Edison. Secondly, because it is compiling on the device itself, it will not hinder your ability to develop on Forge. You’re not compiling a Linux image, or flight controller firmware, or sensor libs from scratch. You’re only compiling the code you wrote on Forge. As for your final point: while yes, this is just another platform to learn how to use an Arduino, we feel that with drones becoming an estimated 80 billion dollar market by 2020 there is huge rewards for becoming familiar with these systems. This means users will greatly benefit from not only learning what drones can do, but what they can't do. All of this while also being the people who will be entering the workforce during this great spike. Metatron: You're actually pretty on point and have pointed to a lot of things we did, with only minor designer differences. As far as heat concerns go, the electronics have no foreseeable reason to have any issue aside from actual shorts (which are less worrying then if we had a carbon fiber frame) We do realize that that we probably gave Eedu more power than it "needed" but when we we're doing efficiency testing we found that the drop in performance was ultimately not worth "cheeping out" for. Same with processor, we came at it with the idea that we never wanted someone to complain that they weren't able to complete a job because the processor wasn't capable. Also having friends at Intel who had not only put the Edison on a rover kit but had also shown interest in wanting to see one on a drone helped. Yeah, tooling is what it is, and since we do have more then 2 pieces (battery pack, bottom body, top body, and legs) those prices are a little short, but also we are trying to hire more devs to focus on the other part of our product (Forge) the community driven developer platform.
  3. Hey Cooper, excellent question For the motors, there is a complicated electronic speed controller (ESC) for each of them, typical with brushless motors. This is built into the main motherboard where the Edison also plugs into, as well as the flight controller processor and IMU. The Edison board is a lot more compact. The size is a big issue when trying to embed systems into a production product. It is also significantly lighter without the unnecessary connections the Pi2 has. Bluetooth is also conveniently integrated in. Quality is also important to us and Intel has better support for $10 more. The Edison is going to be supported for many years. The program-ability of the Edison is also easy to do with the software (named Forge) we have developed to compliment Eedu. This will also be free and open source so that hackers can help build functionality into it. For the typical user, it is an easy to use high level programing environment. Our goal is to enable anyone with little programing experience to get started in Forge and programming drones.
  4. Hey everyone, long time listener here, finally made an account to promote a new product from our start-up. (I hope thats okay) If this should be moved please let me know a better place to put it. Anyways, Skyworks Aerial Systems is proud to announce a new product and we would love your feedback. You can check out the kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dronesmith/eedutm-an-easy-educational-drone-kit-for-learning?ref=nav_search But the main idea is that it is an easy to build quadcopter that has a Intel Edison onboard with connections for an Arduino shield. We are very excited to see what hackers/makers like yourselves will do with with the platform and are eager to hear your thoughts and ideas.
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