The TU Delft MAVlab team made a great video showing off the ease of use of the Paparazzi UAV system on the new Parrot Bebop platform.
Paparazzi on the Parrot Bebop
Category Archives: Hardware
BBC Interview with Bart Remes
Great BBC interview with Bart Remes, head of the Mavlab at TU Delft. Bart shows off the Lisa/S Nano Quadcopter and comments on the usefulness and safety of sub-miniature UAV.
Parrot Bebop Paparazzi Integration
As you know paparazzi is a very modular platform. To show the world how modular we are, we worked hard on implementing paparazzi into the Parrot Bebop. At the Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab) of Delft University of Technology faculty Aerospace engineering (TU Delft) we received a pre-production model of the Bebop. We did our best to have paparazzi integrated before the launch of the Bebop. If you want to follow the progress check our (youtube channel).
4 hours after reception of the Bebop
8 hours later after hacking the ESC check-sum we had our First Flight!!!!
4 hours later our first autonomous outdoor flight in paparazzi !!!
Building the Lisa/S Nano Quadcopter
The TU Delft MAVlab team has created an engaging tutorial showing the step by step assembly of the new Lisa/S Nano Quadcopter. With these instructions you will be flying in no time! 🙂
Paparazzi on the Parrot ARDrone
The TU Delft MAVlab team have made a series of tutorials for the Parrot ARDrone. Showing off the ease of use of the Paparazzi UAV system on the platform.
Getting started
Autonomous Flight
IMAV 2014 Recap
IMAV 2014 was a great experience this year. If you don’t know what it is, its a micro air vehicle competition and conference that was held in Delft, Netherlands.
During the three days of the conference, there were many very interesting talks and presentations as well as an incredible showcase of research talent during the competition. Here is a playlist of the talks, they can be found on the TU Delft MAVlab YouTube channel.
One talk we wanted to highlight was presented by Gautier Hattenberger from ENAC, he is also one of the core developers of Paparazzi UAV. He gave a very interesting talk highlighting the use of the Paparazzi UAV framework in autonomous aerial robot research.
Bart Remes gave a presentation on the Paparazzi UAV Lisa/S and nano Quadcopters. If you are interested in the technical side of the hardware you will definitely enjoy his talk.
If you were curious about the results of the competition, the first place was taken by a Singapore team with a great fleet of high tech quadcopters. The second place went to a German team led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Peter Neitzke that flew completely FPV and the third place went to our friends at ENAC flying Paparazzi powered quadcopters and airplanes. They also created the most usable and complete aerial maps of the village.
And finally we have to thank Bart Remes and the TU-Delft MavLab team that made the whole event possible.
PAPARAZZI AT DEFCON 22
Paparazzi 
UAV and 1BitSquared will be attending this years DefCon 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It takes place from August 7th through 10th, 2014.
We will be at the Hak5 vendor booth, with Lisa/S autopilots, Black Magic Probe, Nano Quad kits and more. Please come by and say hi!
Drones 101 Series on HAK5 – Episodes 1-7
Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1Bit Squared is working together with Darren Kitchen of HAK5 on a series about Open Source Drones, explaining what Drones/UAV/UAS are, how to build, operate, program, and calibrate them. This series highlights Paparazzi’s hardware and software systems and their strengths.
Here is the first episode in the series titled, Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1611. In this episode Piotr and Darren build an Open-Source autonomous aerial system.
Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1612. In episode 2, Piotr and Darren discuss drone basics. How they are put together, what are their components, how they operate and what makes them special.
Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1615. In episode 3, Piotr and Darren discuss how flight controllers work. Microcontrollers, sensors, input and actuators are explained. You will also see Paparazzi’s Lisa/S and Lisa/M among other autopilots discussed.
Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1616. In episode 4, Piotr and Darren discuss the initial configuration and set up of the Lisa/M Open-Source Paparazzi autopilot. They also look at the Paparazzi control center software and ground station. Demonstrating how to compile, upload and test your first autopilot firmware.
Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1617. In episode 5, Piotr and Darren assemble the Bumblebee quadcopter frame. With live construction and step by step commentary. And finally test fitting of the Paparazzi Lisa/M autopilot.
Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1618. In episode 6, Piotr and Darren show how to wire a Paparazzi UAV autopilot into a quadcopter, using the Lisa/M and Bumblebee airframe.
Drones 101- Hak5 episode 1619. In episode 7, Piotr and Darren go through a Paparazzi UAS airframe bring-up process. Including the calibration of the IMU sensors, telemetry and ground segment architecture and much more. If you want to learn more about the Paparazzi UAV framework this episode has a lot to offer.
Paparazzi at 30C3
The 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress was held in the Congress Center in Hamburg, Germany on December 27th-30th, 2013. We were present there as part of the Paparazzi UAV Assembly.
Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1BitSquared made a presentation on Paparazzi’s History in the main events hall during the congress.
‘Small autopilot, big ideas’
The Paparazzi UAV Lisa/S autopilot has been featured in MICROmanufacturing magazine. We were excited to discover that the Guinness Book listing for the smallest autopilot system is for the Kestrel autopilot. Which is 14 grams heavier and several centimeters bigger than the Lisa/S!
