i'm looking for how to get started in rtos developement, and how to implement an rtos into a car
im building a seaplane and you guys have NO IDEA how fucking expensive avionics is, just google 'garmin avionics' and you'll see.
It's gotten so bad people started building mounts for ipads in their plane dashboards
>picrel, $13,000 of avionics next to an equally functional $500 ipad
I swear, once someone gets the balls to FAA register an Ipad as IFR flight avionics, garmin is going out of business.
Is 'go-OS' taken? i want it to be about putting gps maps in cars, boats, or planes, and since a goose can fly, swim, and walk. It can stand for 'global orientation operating system', its kinda close. Idk i thought it was clever. I saw freertos, but from what i can tell, its not much more than a bootloader and a task scheduler.
The aviation community is fairly similar to the coding community, lots of people with highly specialized knowledge on a specific aircraft or powerplant few others have. Everyone with extremely strong and deeply held opinions about what systems or methods perform better than others. but none of them know anything at all about programming or even beyond facebook and microsoft office.
The aviation community is getting kiked hard, and are starting to realize it. the few planefags/motorheads i've talked to about how unix/linux work seem to get the 'applications as tools' philosophy pretty quickly, and most appreciate open source code once they understand what it actually is and what it means legally. They usually say something like 'when i open a motor i can see what happens when i turn it on. At least with open source, if i did enough reading, i could know how my computer actually works huh?'
Also, it allows for a pilot or technician to safety audit the code without needing a goddamn NDA-d license from the avionics manufacturer. Computers, and thus the code they run are a functioning component of an aircraft. In many cases, they are a flight-critical component. ie, if the computer fails, the plane crashes and everyone probably dies.