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I know this isn’t news, but please indulge me a moment of pride in the APM dev teams. They have built the world’s first “universal autopilot”. The same hardware can fly all of the above—every kind of airplane, multicopter and helicopter, along with hardware-in-the-loop simulations—with one click to load new firmware in the Mission Planner. That’s just amazing.

And if you want it to autonomously control a rover or boat, that’s just a few more clicks.
As far as I know, this has never been done before. Congrats to the whole APM dev team!

The quadrotor that I built am putting the finishing touches on flies using the Arducopter2 platform, built on an APM board.

To put it simply: this is wicked cool fun.