This Ground Control Station will remain free to use and open source. But if you'd like to make a Donation I would really appreciate it!
Help me convince my wife that staying up until 3AM night after night isn't a waste of time :)

Brief Description: Open source ground control station which accepts NMEA, SiRF, uBlox, MediaTek (custom binary for DIYDrones.com), ArduPilot, ArduPilot Mega, ArduIMU binary, MAVlink, FY21AP II and UavDevBoard's MartixPilot as data input. Graphical user display including Google Maps/Earth interface and live video feed.

Chase Cam View


Antenna Tracking View


First Person View


Overhead View (Handles small screens down to 800 X 600)

System requirements:
.NET 2.0 framework (pre-installed on Vista and Windows 7):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en

DirectX End-User Runtimes: - Important! Fixes DirectX errors!
http://code.google.com/p/happykillmore-gcs/downloads/detail?name=directx_Jun2010_redist.exe&can=2&q=

Google Earth and plugin:
http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/
http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html

Current Features:
Google Earth API integration with 3D models from the OpenPilot.org project
Google Maps integration (requires live internet conenction)
Supports NMEA, uBlox, SiRF, NMEA, SiRF, uBlox, MediaTek (custom binary for DIYDrones.com), ArduPilot, ArduPilot Mega binary, ArduIMU binary, MAVlink, FY21AP II, AttoPilot (coming soon) and UavDevBoard's MatrixPilot protocols
Live real time video feed (selectable if you have multiple video sources)
Graphical cockpit instruments (Originally written by Guillaume CHOUTEAU in C#)
Save and playback raw datastream
Loads ArduPilot (Mega and Legacy) missions
Servo Input, Output and Sensor data available (UavDevBoard, FY21APII and MAVlink)