# ArduPilot/ardupilot

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

- Magnitude: 1.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 16,308 total · +8 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:13–23:10 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2013-01-09 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot · Homepage: http://ardupilot.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ArduPilot/ardupilot

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:13–23:10: 16300 → 16308 stars (+8). This is the change over that interval.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 21,721
- Issues and pull requests: 34,947
- Watchers: 679
- Average over the last week: 11 per day
- Usual pace: 13 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: Plane-4.7.2 (2026-10-14)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 6, 12, 10, 7, 6, 6, 6, 10, 11, 10, 11, 15, 7, 4, 14, 22, 32, 23, 16, 11, 8, 17, 22, 9, 13, 5, 22, 11, 9, 8

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-18 1.4, 10-21 2.5, 10-22 3.3, 10-23 2.5, 10-24 1.9, 10-25 2.0, 10-26 2.2, 10-27 2.5, 10-28 1.9, 10-29 2.0, 10-30 1.8, 10-31 2.2, 11-01 1.7, 11-02 1.8

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.