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About
About Me:
I've been flying RC aircraft for the past 19 years (started when I was 6) and I now work designing and test flying UAVs.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I am very interested in 3D printing and how it can be used for small scale UAVs to customize airframes to customer's needs. I also am interested in long-endurance operations and am trying to do thermal detection with my Radian Pro running an APM 2.5
Hometown:
Somerville, MA
Activity Feed
"I agree! I used to come here every day to see what people were up to... it's become a lot less engaging and some of the barely-disguised marketing is not like the good old days."
"Agree with Edward Sellars below. Frequency is lower for longer range.
These posts appear to be quite blatant advertising: "Investment in these products is recommended""
These posts appear to be quite blatant advertising: "Investment in these products is recommended""
"This seems like an ad
I was hoping to get some analysis of what motors people actually use but this is just a bunch of fluff and then a mention of one product."
I was hoping to get some analysis of what motors people actually use but this is just a bunch of fluff and then a mention of one product."
"do they also jam sound? wondering if you could place a few really loud sirens around their property at known coordinates and use those for positioning. each one could be at different freq and a bit of simple math (intensity + frequency shifts) might…"
"Didn't Stanford do this back in 2010? https://youtu.be/Uo-7YlJRsbM"
"I am curious what requirements were used in the design of this aircraft? Was it based on market data for what people needed? Were there clients you initially had in mind? Perhaps I am misunderstanding your post but I would imagine that you would…"
"from the render, the tail volume looks much too small in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. I've had this bookmarked for years to remind me of the formulae generally used here. "
"very very cool! here's a link to the MS Thesis I was helping on (just lending a hand, really)"
"this is CRAZY! I worked on a concept like this many many years ago but the controllers were a pain. Insane to see the performance here. Very impressive!!! Are you doing gain scheduling?
Here's a render of the vehicle I worked on..... looks pretty…"
Here's a render of the vehicle I worked on..... looks pretty…"
"So cool! I did this (in a simpler setup) as an undergrad with a simple modification of the position control loop to take into account the angle and angular acceleration of a slung payload. Also did everything in a vicon room with no onboard…"
"Reading back over the initial comments some of us made when the winning design was announce is... illuminating.
see thread here"
see thread here"
"very interesting!
I did exactly the same math using an optimization routine to choose the "best" climb and glide profile based on some requirements. I was actually trying to optimize aircraft weight (via battery weight reduction due to lowered power…"
I did exactly the same math using an optimization routine to choose the "best" climb and glide profile based on some requirements. I was actually trying to optimize aircraft weight (via battery weight reduction due to lowered power…"
"@Chris - before I shot my mouth off before, I looked up what the deliverables were :)
(found here: https://cocreate.localmotors.com/localmotors/airbus-cargo-drone-cha...)
Perhaps I wasn't privvy to further requirements but nowhere in here did I see…"
(found here: https://cocreate.localmotors.com/localmotors/airbus-cargo-drone-cha...)
Perhaps I wasn't privvy to further requirements but nowhere in here did I see…"
"Without putting actual analysis up alongside pretty pictures, I wonder what the point of all of this was? This really just feels like a large brainstorming session for configurations that might be amenable to further investigation and a chance to…"
"... it's a bracket? Unclear why this is news. "
"eager to see how it works out, please post video! might run into tuning issues getting it just right but should be easy to flip in and out of stabilize mode. "
