Diarmuid Wrenne's Discussions (8)

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MIT Lidar

Hi,
(Scrap this, as after looking at the SLAM page, it looks like they used the Hokuyo scanner . It generates the same sort of image as the images in the videos is you have a spare 350 grames available and $5500 then indoor lidar is for you. That said

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lookdown video analysis code

Having seen that the ardone is using a lookdown camera for stability, I though I would put together a simple bit of code to look at a video stream and find point of interest. They seem to have a grid of 25 points that they lock on to points of intere

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Xbee for full remote control

I have quite a few zigbee modules of various powers. I've used them for serial communication of environmental data and found them perfect for that. I am looking to do some sort of UAVS but I am loath to spend hundreds of Euro on a decent radio system

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Software Serial for GPS

Mikal Hart seems confident that his library is pretty robust and much better than the original SoftwareSerial. It uses interrupts . It might allow us to run both a GPS and a two comms link. The coms link could be on the hardware UART and the GPS on t

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Multiple Serial Devices

Hi,I wonder has there been any work on running multiple serial devices on the ardupilot. The SoftwareSerial library seems pretty robust and would be good for use with the xbee. This would allow the xbee to be used for telemetry and an uplink. Remote

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