Fixed Wing UAV Controller Board Suggestions

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Good Afternoon,

Thank you in advance to anyone looking at this and taking the time to answer.

I am looking for some advice on which board to use for a flight controller. I saw a few related topics but did not see anything that spoke direct to my question

I use a PixHawk for my quadcopter currently but I am looking to build something from scratch for a fixed wing project.

I am not overly worried about cost but I am going to need to control/work with a minimum of the following. It does not matter if its direct from the board, via a shield, or some sort of add on board.

  1. 10 large Servo Motors (possibly as many as 16).
  2. Minimum of 3 cameras (can be low resolution but will still eat up ram)
  3. quite a few sensors.
  4. 900MHz radio send/receive.
  5. 2.4 wifi.
  6. wired ethernet if possible.

I am really looking for the most RAM/CPU/flashMem I can get in a board that is reasonable to work with and is well documented.

I have been out of this hobby for a while and Just do not know what is out there any more.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,
Masoric

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@Masoric Welcome to the RobotShop Community. It sounds like the following might be suitable:

Note that the Raspberry Pi is sold separately:

Other flight controllers can be found here:
https://www.robotshop.com/en/uav-drone-flight-controllers.html

You can often save some servo channels if they can be combined. For example all landing gear servos can be controlled from the same signal.

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I appreciate the reply cbenson.