TarmacFrom open-source airframes to a fleet you can actually run
Tarmac is built by Pan Robotics — robotics engineers and drone operators who got tired of running fleets through SSH sessions, scattered scripts, and a different tool for every task.
Tarmac didn't start as a product. It started as the hub software running on the Raspberry Pi companion computers of open-source ArduPilot aircraft — the on-board service that streamed telemetry, pulled logs, flashed firmware, and ran mission jobs while the aircraft was in the field.
As those airframes grew from a single quadcopter to heavy-lift hexacopters — and from one vehicle to small fleets — the hub had to grow with them: multi-vehicle, multi-operator, and reachable from anywhere, not just a laptop on the same network. Tarmac is that hub, rebuilt from the ground up for multi-tenant, production-grade use.
Built on open-hardware lineage
Tarmac cut its teeth on open-source ArduPilot aircraft. The companion services that fly on Quiver- and Caribou-class vehicles are the same lineage that powers the hub today — which is why Tarmac speaks ArduPilot natively and treats the companion computer as a first-class part of the stack.
Arrow Air↗
Design together. Build together. Fly together.
A distributed, open-source aerospace community engineering aircraft in the open — from quadcopters to eVTOL air taxis, shipped like software.
Project Quiver↗
Open-source multi-purpose quadcopter
Modular hot-swap payloads, dual-GNSS RTK, radar altimeter, 25 kg MTOW — running ArduPilot with an optional Raspberry Pi companion computer.
Project Caribou↗
Open-source heavy-lift hexacopter
~200 kg MTOW, ~100 kg payload for cargo logistics and precision agriculture. ArduPilot, triple-redundant avionics, CERN-OHL-S hardware.
“Build in the open. Best idea wins.”— the open-source ethos Tarmac inherits and carries into how the platform is built.
What makes Tarmac different
Companion-first
A Raspberry Pi companion is a first-class citizen, not an afterthought — telemetry, jobs, OTA and custom payloads all flow through it.
Natively ArduPilot
Built around ArduPilot from day one — MAVSDK telemetry, MAVFTP/HTTP log pull, firmware OTA and mission upload across fixed-wing, multirotor, VTOL and rover.
Multi-tenant by design
Role-based access control and per-org data isolation, so you can run separate client fleets cleanly from one place.
An app store for payloads
Write a Python parser, drag-and-drop a UI, and any custom sensor becomes a live dashboard widget — no backend to build.
Open standards, no lock-in
REST + WebSocket + SocketCAN/DroneCAN under the hood. The data is yours; the protocols are open.
Where we're headed
The hosted version of Tarmac exists so operators who'd rather not run their own infrastructure can get airborne in minutes — and so the work keeps funding the open tooling underneath it. The aircraft get more capable every release; the hub that flies them should too.
Get in touch
Sales, support, and everything else: info@panrobotics.xyz
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