After doing some extensive research on UAV and complete autonomous flight, I came across an excellent website DIY Drones. This site is packed with other people's autonomous flight ideas and projects, as well as a store where you can buy airplane boards to turn your R/C plane into a UAV. After reading some posts and watching and looking at videos and photos of other people, I was more determined then ever to get this project going. Then I clicked the "Getting Started" tab to see where I would begin.
The blog's title after clicking the tab reads, "The newbie guide to UAVs", perfect! After reading "What is an amateur UAV?", "What do I need to make one?" and "What does DIY Drones have to offer?", it seems like this project can get pretty far before I have to go to college. I clicked on the links they provided which brought me to a wikilinks site that had step by step instructions on how to set your R/C plane to UAV mode. All you need is a $200 board called Adrupilot Mega 2.0, or APM for short. But then I came across another link which brought me to https://www.udrones.com/.
https://www.udrones.com is a online store that sells parts to turn your R/C plane into a UAV, or you can buy one of there "Almost-ready to fly" drones for $600, which is a R/C plane with ardupilot already included. After researching other sites to see how much a legitimate plane would cost and then buying the ardupilot with it as well, I figured that buying the entire package was worth the cost. The only problem is it takes 2-4 weeks to ship. So hopefully by mid July I will be up and running with this drone.
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