Technologies

Pixawk

Pixhawk is a hardware device built to be a high-quality and low-costing autopilot software. It has support for different flight stacks as well as support for numerous different plugins and peripherals so that the drone may be modified to the user's liking. The software we will be using is chosen to ensure that it will work this our client's specific hardware.

Qt Creator

QtCreator will be our main development tool for our project. It is an excellent tool for the development of any software with a GUI as it can be easily used for all major platforms. It has an excellent set of built in tools to help our development. It's built in QT Designer makes modelling QML pages quick and easy. This is also the main development tool for the developers of QGroundControl

Visual Studio Code

We use Visual Studio Code for our web development. It is easily customizable as well as has a very large plugin base so that one can easily modify it to their likings. You can make this software as lightweight or as heavy as you want. The user interface is clean and easy to navigate to ensure we do not get bogged down in an endless loop of confusing menus. It is also avaliable for all major desktop platforms so that it can be easily used across different devices and operating systems.