ArduPilot/ardupilot
- Total stars
- 16,308
- Today
- +8since 00:13 UTC
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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. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 2, 2026, 21:46 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:13–21:40: 16300 → 16308 stars (+8). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +9 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 91. -29% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 26, 2026
- 22
- October 27, 2026
- 9
- October 28, 2026
- 13
- October 29, 2026
- 5
- October 30, 2026
- 22
- October 31, 2026
- 11
- November 1, 2026
- 9
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 32 · October 20, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 2, 2026, 21:46 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 16,308
- Today
- +8 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:13–21:40 UTC, ≈ 9 by evening
- Forks
- 21,721
- Issues and pull requests
- 34,945
- Watchers
- 679
- Language
- C++
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Latest release
- Plane-4.7.2 · October 14, 2026
- Created
- January 9, 2013
- Last push
- November 2, 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
- October 24, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #7, +18 stars
- October 23, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +17 stars
- October 22, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +20 stars
- October 21, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +26 stars
- October 8, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +7 stars
- October 7, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +8 stars
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #15, +9 stars
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #15, +9 stars
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