Contributing

What is the Navio2?

What is the Navio2?

Navio2 is an autopliot shield that is used with the Raspberry Pi board. This autopilot is not only designed as a platform for a Linux version of Ardupilot but also as a platform for your custom robotic projects. With the Navio2, you can control all kinds of moving robots such as cars, boats, multirotors and planes.

Is Navio2 open source?

Most advanced and full-featured open-source autopilot software. With Navio2 its code is executed directly on Raspberry Pi with preemptive Linux kernel.

What is an autopilot shield?

Navio is a shield for the Raspberry Pi, complete with a barometric pressure sensor, gyros, accelerometer, and compass, and GPS. There’s also a version upgraded with the U-blox NEO-6T that allows for on-board processing of raw GPS data.

How do I set up Navio2?

To mount NAVIO2:

  1. Install spacers to the top side of Raspberry Pi and fix them with screws from the bottom.
  2. Connect extension header to the 40-pin gpio port.
  3. Attach NAVIO2 to the extension header.
  4. Fix NAVIO2 using screws.

Does Navio2 work with Raspberry Pi 4?

Currently supported boards ArduPilot on Navio2 is working on: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

Can you use a Raspberry Pi as a flight controller?

Rather than use Pixhawk, you can also use a Navio2 controller. The Navio2 is made by a company called Emlid. that developed a Raspberry Pi shield that can turn any normal Raspberry Pi board into a flight controller.

How do I connect my flight controller to my Raspberry Pi?

Connecting the Flight controller and RPi Hardware Connect the flight controller’s TELEM2 port to the RPi’s Ground, TX and RX pins as shown in the image above. More details on the individual RPi’s pin functions can be found here. The RPi can be powered by connecting +5V source to the +5V pin or from USB in.

Can a Raspberry Pi fly a drone?

Raspberry Pi Drone Projects. Interestingly enough, you can fly the drone without a companion computer/raspberry pi drone, and even do basic autonomous missions on a simple Pixhawk drone.

Can a Raspberry Pi control a drone?

Today, the Raspberry Pi is one of the best-selling British computers, with more than 30 million boards sold as of December 2019. And yes, you can use them to build your own drone, too.

Can I build my own drone?

Rather than spend several hundreds of dollars to buy a drone, you can build your own drone for as little as $99. For such complicated machines, drones have very few parts and don’t take fancy engineering to build one. There are a bunch of fun “build your own drone” kits.

What’s the difference between Arduino and raspberry pi?

The main difference between them is: Arduino is microcontroller board, while Raspberry Pi is a microprocessor based mini computer (SBC). Raspberry Pi SBC has all features of a computer with a processor, memory, storage, graphics driver, connectors on the board. Raspberry Pi needs an Operating System to run.

Which is PWM generation chip does Navio use?

On previous Navio version, PWM generation was handled by PCA9685 chip. The main limitation of this chip is the inability to control frequencies for separate channels. This lead to problems with motors and servos that work on different frequencies.

Where to get emlid Navio + / NAVIO2 example?

One more great thing about Emlids Navio+/Navio2 is that its almost each onboard device has its own example in Python or C++, that is really helpful when you are getting started. To get example folder on your RPi2 you should clone it from github:

Can a Navio be used on a Raspberry Pi?

In this guide we’ll describe how to start working with Navio board including mount, powering up, setting up operating system on Raspberry and much more. Navio was designed to fit on top of Raspberry Pi Model A and Model B, however it also works with Raspberry Pi Model B+ due to the backward compatibility between them.

What was the main limitation of the previous Navio?

PCA9685 PWM generator replaced with a microcontroller. On previous Navio version, PWM generation was handled by PCA9685 chip. The main limitation of this chip is the inability to control frequencies for separate channels. This lead to problems with motors and servos that work on different frequencies.