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so im a highschool student who is competeing in a uav flight contest in australia. we have to drop a package from our quad copter. i was thinking of using arduino and a gps module to get the distance between the starting point and the dropping zone. once the distance is reached i wanted a servo to turn enabling the package to fall. the thing is i have no idea how to program this and i really need help. any help or ideas would be great.

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    You will likely need a GPS module (such as Ublox NEO-6M GPS Module Aircraft Flight Controller For Arduino) and a small microcontroller (such as an arduino nano) to decode the NMEA position messages from the GPS module and compare the position to your target position. You can download NMEA decoding libraries for the arduino from the web.

    If you want to use a servo motor for the dump mechanism, you will need the arduino to generate 50 pulses per second on a digital output pin where each pulse is either 1 ms long or 2 ms long depending on which position the servo is in. Servo drivers for arduino are also available on the web.

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    well so far im using an arduino uno board and an adafruit ultimate gps breakout v3 module. do you think ill be able to do it with these? aalso the thing i really need help on is the programming part of this

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