ArduPilot/ardupilot

ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source

Hardware, IoT & roboticsC++#arducopter#ardupilot#arduplane#ardurover#ardusub

1.5 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

Open-source autopilot firmware for drones, planes, rovers, boats and submarines, developed since 2010. Includes ArduCopter, ArduPlane, ArduRover, ArduSub and Antenna Tracker.

Useful for

Flash a Pixhawk flight controller for autonomous multirotor flight
Configure the autopilot for a rover or boat to follow waypoints
Build firmware from source for a specific board and add a custom module

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

6 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 15,887
Stars in a day: 7
Forks: 21,412
Issues and pull requests: 34,412
Watchers: 686
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: Plane-4.7.1 · September 3, 2026
Created: January 9, 2013
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #15, +9 stars
September 16, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #15, +9 stars

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