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松藤 弘樹 replied to 松藤 弘樹's discussion Ardupilotについて in the group Japan ArduCopter Group"ありがとうございます！確認してみます。
またわからないことがあったら質問することもあると思います。
その際はよろしくお願いいたします。"
Mark Kellogg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Boeing's hydrogen-powered UAV takes first flight (last year)"Well Chris and Gary, you got my attention and I started searching around for info new designs for commercial large scale drones, and there is some interesting stuff going on, see the other new Boeing project link below on the Solar Eagle. That…"
iskess replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter 2.9 / 2.9.1 released"My Tricopter altitude hold is no longer working. In altitude hold I can add full throttle and the copter descends to the ground. I can cut the throttle off, and it still descends to the ground at the same slow rate. Loiter is the same. Stabilize…"
DeveloperRandy replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"I made a mistake when doing the release and accidentally released out of our master branch instead of the special purpose ArduCopter-3.0 branch. The effect is that an untested feature called RCMAP (which allows the pilot to configure which…"
DeveloperRandy replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"Antonie,
Not much has changed between -rc5 and 3.0.0. Just a few bug fixes to circle mode and we reduce the Alt Hold P gain from 2.0 to 1.0. Ah, and we added the WPNAV_ACCEL…"
Raja Sohail posted a discussionWeight of Autopilot Avoinics Suite
Before adopting APM as an autopilot for my aircraft i ll like to know its complete weight along with protective casing, external extra components, cables, and RC circuitry, and video telemetry kit, and camera etc.
Nathan DuCray commented on Adam AKAV8R's blog post DJI has officially released the H3-2D Gimbal for $699!"I do certainly like the design dji has gone with. They do know how to make elegant designs, and this is another example. Lets hope they don't have any QC issues with this. This will help to raise the bar in the market, the av out is pretty…"
ModeratorGary Mortimer commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Parrot releases GPS module for AR.Drone 2.0
"They don't need to avoid export restrictions Jack, they are French. "
ModeratorGary Mortimer commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Boeing's hydrogen-powered UAV takes first flight (last year)
"Its also crashed, its the great endurance hope over there after they canned the Zephyr derivative."
Aleck Wu replied to Soko's discussion APM not uploading in Mission Planner"i got the exact same error when i just tried to play with my friend's quad just now. upon a bit of googling, there's this comment that described the exact same problem.... solve with another computer...
yup.. i just tried that,…"
Mark Kellogg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Boeing's hydrogen-powered UAV takes first flight (last year)"Actually here's another link to a Boeing site with more information...it's pretty much a public relations site, but still has good info on the Phantom Eye.
http://www.boeing.com/stories/videos/vid_08_phantom_eye.html"
3D RoboticsChris Anderson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Boeing's hydrogen-powered UAV takes first flight
"My apologies for the old link. I saw the month and missed the year!"
Antonie Kruger replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use"Hi Guys,
Thanks for the hard work and new killer release. I've tried rev.3 since rc2 and have flown every rc up to rc5 on my big H quad(Galactica).
I took up rc5 yesterday(not sure what has changes to release 3.0.0) and experienced the great…"
Mark Kellogg commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Boeing's hydrogen-powered UAV takes first flight"It's got skids that deploy for landing. The skids were damaged on that first flight. Apparently that flight was in June of 2012 and it's flown 3 or 4 times again over the last 12 months. Boeing received more funding, $6…"
Mike T commented on Steve Monro's blog post A beginner's experience to the Copter world"the other thing with hobby king, is even though they have marked it as shipped and given you a tracking number, it often doesn't actually get picked up until about a week later. this happens to me pretty often and it is really frustrating, but…"
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Boeing's hydrogen-powered UAV takes first flight (last year)
Posted by Chris Anderson on June 18, 2013 at 8:00pm 6 Comments 1 Like
Designed for a duration of four days at 65,000 feet. The first flight was just 28 minutes and it sustained damage on landing, but otherwise the mission was a success. ]UPDATE: This was a year ago, sorry for missing that. It's taken several flight since then]
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DIY Samsung Trigger for APM
Posted by Jeff Taylor on June 18, 2013 at 5:06pm 1 Comment 6 Likes
In this post I’ll describe how to make your own cable to trigger the Samsung mirrorless cameras NX20, NX210 and NX1000. We’ll be using an ArduPilot Mega 2.5 to do the triggering but you can use any Arduino or even a soldered push button.
What you’ll need:
- Any 2 or 3 wire cable – I use a 30cm Futaba servo extender which I cut the female end off…
DJI has officially released the H3-2D Gimbal for $699!
Posted by Adam AKAV8R on June 18, 2013 at 3:00pm 11 Comments 1 Like
Well the price has finally been released for the new DJI Phantom gimbal @ $699.00 and comes complete as shown below. The nice features are the ability to charge the GoPro while flying and the ability to output video to your video Tx all contained inside the arms of the gimbal. Full details …
ContinueParrot releases GPS module for AR.Drone 2.0
Posted by Chris Anderson on June 18, 2013 at 1:20pm 6 Comments 3 Likes
Man whose RC drone was shot down over Turkey protest returns to the skies
Posted by Matthew Schroyer on June 18, 2013 at 7:44am 2 Comments 5 Likes
Many of you might be aware of the situation in Turkey, where protests have been going on for longer than two weeks. Some of you on DIYDrones might also be aware that a man was flying a small RC drone above these protests, that is, until his aircraft was shot down by riot police.
I originally wrote about this on sUASNews,…
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PX4FLOW Position Hold Beta and Source Code Release
Posted by PX4 on June 18, 2013 at 7:30am 3 Comments 6 Likes
Our new video shows position hold (the position can be moved on the fly, so its actually full position control) using the PX4FMU autopilot plus …
Continue$250 disposable drones could monitor hurricanes
Posted by Chris Anderson on June 18, 2013 at 6:52am 8 Comments 3 Likes
ASME Podcast - How Drones Can Help Predict Tornadoes
Posted by S.G. Sutter on June 18, 2013 at 6:30am 1 Comment 5 Likes
ASME presents a podcast on the application of small UAVs in the study of severe weather, especially tornadoes.
Here is the link to the ASME…
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A beginner's experience to the Copter world
Posted by Steve Monro on June 18, 2013 at 5:00am 11 Comments 2 Likes
My dad likes remote control cars. My brothers like remote control cars. I like them too. As a family, we grew up playing with train sets laid out on the family dinner table. As kids we also used to enjoy playing with a “Thunderloop Thriller AFX Slotcar Set” and making things out of Lego. The things that typical boys enjoyed playing with.
So where do I begin with this flying journey? How about this last Christmas. It was the year of… strangely enough remote control…
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Bill Seeks to Restrict Drones
JIM PROVANCE SOURCE: THE BLADE, TOLEDO, OHIO June 18–COLUMBUS — If unmanned drones are going to hover over Ohioans’ heads, state law has to catch up with them, a lawmaker argues. State Rep. Rex Damschroder, the Fremont Republican and pilot, has introduced a bill that would, except in certain emergencies, prohibit any law enforcement agency from using unmanned aircraft for surveillance without first obtaining a search warrant. Absent that warrant, any evidence obtained from the use of a wide array of small, lightweight, camera-equipped drones could not be used in court. “It’s a new industry, and we want to be on the leading edge of it, but I don’t want government infringing on our Fourth Amendment rights,” Mr. Damschroder said. “Government can’t come into your house (without a warrant), but they can come into your backyard, even if you have a high privacy fence. “I don’t want the camel to get its nose under the tent,” he said. “It’s easier to restrict its use before it starts. With texting and e-mailing, the government is on notice that a lot of Americans aren’t happy with the way government is snooping and digging into their privacy.” Mention drones and most people think of [...]
UAS demonstrates potential of unmanned aircraft for wildfire use
Mark Engebretson Owners of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, based in Oklahoma City, were at Possum Kingdom Lake Saturday demonstrating unmanned aircraft that can be used over wildfires. Held at the Possum Kingdom East Volunteer Fire Department, representatives from the Brazos River Authority, Graham Fire Department, Palo Pinto County Sheriff’s Office and Caddo VFD attended. Greg Ward, who has extensive experience with Channel 9 in Oklahoma City with video and audio reporting from aircraft, explained some of the capabilities. “The flexibility is endless, you can configure it a number of ways,” he said. The 4.4-pound aircraft can be equipped with forward looking video with a variety of possible lenses, infrared and thermal imaging among the options. He also said there are a number of options for flying the aircraft, from line of sight, to first person with a computer monitor, much like a video game to programming it to specific coordinates. “Flight time is generally two hours,” Ward added. “We’re putting auto pilots in all of these. It can return to the GPS location where it was launched, circles and waits to land.” Jerry Stuckey, the company’s CEO, said the aircraft is made on composite Styrofoam. “If something happens, if it runs [...]
NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations
NASA’s communications experts have begun flight testing a prototype radio as part of the agency’s contributions toward fully integrating civil and commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). This particular radio is one of the first steps to provide the critical communications link for UAS pilots on the ground to safely and securely operate their remotely piloted vehicles in flight even though they are many miles — if not continents or oceans — apart. “So far the tests are going well and we’re learning a lot about how this prototype radio operates under various conditions, but we still have much more testing to do on this radio and others that will come,” said Jim Griner, a project engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Currently there is not a great deal of freedom for civilian uses of UAS over our nation’s skies. Police and firefighters, for example, must use off-the-shelf systems and fly under special Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approvals that restrict where and when remotely piloted vehicles can fly. “There are some pretty good limitations on those operations, but the work we’re doing to develop a new command and control radio for the UAS [...]
PSNI on G8 drones: ‘They actually look like big model aircraft’
THE POLICE SERVICE of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have revealed details about the unmanned aerial vehicles or drones they will be using during the G8 summit, which gets under way in Fermanagh tomorrow. As part of an unprecedented security operation at the Lough Erne golf resort near Enniskillen, the PSNI will be operating three of the unmanned aircraft over the next two days to give them an “eye in the sky” view of their operation. The drones will be used primarily for surveillance purposes during the summit and will deliver high quality images to police commanders. The PSNI will have 8,000 officers in the field over a 24-hour period with the existing force supplemented by over 3,600 officers brought in from police forces in England, Scotland and Wales. http://www.thejournal.ie/psni-g8-drones-953869-Jun2013/ Bookmark It Hide Sites
Trimble’s new UAS targets big survey, geospatial projects
Holding thumbs that the FAA will come through for them in 2015, Trimble unveils its latest wing. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based, publicly traded (Nasdaq: TRMB) Trimble, with $2 billion in 2012 revenue, uses positioning technologies – GPS, lasers and optics – to focus on applications requiring position or location, including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. Like the X100 but better Just like its predecessor, the Gatewing X100 – the market’s first commercial aerial imaging rover – incorporates mission planning, automatic field image acquisition and fully digital and automated image processing software. Trimble acquired privately-held Gatewing, a Belgium-based manufacturer of lightweight UAVs for photogrammetry and rapid terrain mapping, in April 2012. The UX5 carries a Sony NEX-5R mirrorless, 16.1-megapixel camera with a fixed focal-length external lens, which has a surface area nearly nine times that of the Ricoh camera carried on the X100, which was already 1.5 times larger than the biggest on the market at the time. The large field of view from the camera allows the rover to cover 50-75 percent more area to enhance efficiency and reduce operational costs. In addition to the increase in flight efficiency, the Trimble UX5 is capable of producing [...]
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Maritime Heron UAV supports European airspace trial
Europe has advanced a project to prove the feasibility of using satellite communications to enable UAS operations in non-segregated airspace ...Brazilian navy begins UAS evaluation
The Brazilian navy has begun to evaluate two Israeli-made unmanned air systems for maritime surveillance missions ...Indian air force to launch micro UAS evaluation
The Indian air force is to evaluate several micro unmanned air systems from around 10 companies in early May ...VIDEO: Eurocopter demonstrates unmanned EC145
Eurocopter has unveiled an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV), based on its EC145 light twin, which has been in development since September 2011.Israeli F-16 downs another Hezbollah UAV
An Israeli air force Lockheed Martin F-16 has shot down an unmanned air vehicle launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah militants ...
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