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Motor selection
Started Jun 12, 2012 0 Replies 0 Likes
I am building a quadcopter as we speak (my first) the airframe is coming along nicely, but I have held off on the motors. I have been comparing 3 Turnigy motors…Continue
Link Budget for Xbee
Started this discussion. Last reply by Adam Conway May 25, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Hey Folks,I was curious about the Xbee range in free space. I put together a spreadsheet with a derivation of the Friis Equation (somebody check my work if they get a chance). I know very little…Continue
Tags: xbee, xbee_distance, xbee_range, friis
To RTF or not to RTF...
Started this discussion. Last reply by Adam Conway May 24, 2010. 10 Replies 0 Likes
The only thing worse than a noob asking a boring question is a cheap noob doing the same... I am buying an easy star (shocker, I know) and looking at the RTF kit, I have a bad feeling that I am…Continue
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Tommy Larsen commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"You must use common ground on both usb ports on the RPi :)"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"Oh thanks! Good info. I'll give that a try."
Bertold Van den Bergh commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"The problem is that the Pi has a weak fuse at the power input. This is because it should be able to be powered by a USB port. If you bridge the fuse it will supply enough current to the dongle if you connect a sufficiently powerful power supply (1A…"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"I got the Pi going but I need a powered usb hub I believe it's not powering the dongle. I'm going to check out Tommy's thread and see if I can figure out how he connected the APM. I guess he used serial?"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"It gives extra illumination because of the reflective tape on the aircraft. :) Gives the optical tracker a brighter target. The are som regulations regarding laser use. So you'd need to check these at the FAA site. Most of the regulations…"
Soviet87 commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"So is the laser just an easy way of pointing to your bird in the sky?"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"Actually now it has an electronic focuser as well. (I could not focus very well without it) here is a test of the laser. I dont have any other view just now but next time I pull it out I'll take some more. It laser is in the guidescope tube.…"
Soviet87 commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"That is awesome! Have any more angles of the setup?"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"I have a Belkin USB wifi hooked up to the Pi I have to get that working. I have a Linksys with ddwrt on it I might try as well. I've got it on the Ethernet port. Just getting started. Here's a pick of the tracker. It has a laser…"
Soviet87 commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"Wifi would be sweet! I do have an unused raspberry pi and alfa networks usb adapter just setting in my closet, why not give it a try! I have an antenna grid as well as a heavy duty tripod that is used for mead telescopes. Maybe an uber ground…"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones" I have an optical tracking system that can lock on to the aircraft and I want to try a 15db helical and a pinwheel and see what kind of range I can get."
James Small commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"Ubiquity access points should be arriving monday to answer the question of 'bandwidth' that can be realistically maintained with a moving vehicle. I'm still in the need of a rasberry pi camera, they're out of stock, so I…"
Monroe Lee King Jr. commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"Ok well I'm working on booting up my RPi right now and getting it setup. I went with
Raspbian"
Tommy Larsen commented on Adam Conway's blog post The Case for WiFi in Drones"Thank you :)
I guess there has been so much on wifi because there is the xbee with i guess the same initial range. But that's what i will try to increase. I do send the mavlink via tcp/ip at the 3g system, sp that will be the same for wifi."
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- About Me:
- I run product for a Wi-Fi Startup called Aerohive, by day.
- Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
- When I was in grad school and after I did a lot with autonomous systems, but career got in the way and I ended up in Marketing... Anyhow, I have never lost my love of building stuff, especially stuff that do things without human interaction.
- Hometown:
- San Jose
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The Case for WiFi in Drones
Posted on June 11, 2013 at 9:00am 47 Comments 12 Likes
In full disclosure I work at a company that builds WiFi Access Points, routers etc for enterprises and I just put a hotspot on a drone for fun
It…
Continue Bad news for 2.4GHz
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:00pm 10 Comments 1 Like
It looks like AT&T is looking to use 2.3GHz bands reserved for Sirius radio. Those in the WiFi space know that Terrestrial repeaters of Sirius radio signals are a major source of outdoor interference - but those repeaters only existed in dense cities. Now with that spectrum moving to 4G Basestations we will see much more interference in on open areas (like…
Continue XBee range calculations
Posted on June 14, 2010 at 10:14pm 7 Comments 0 Likes
I originally posted this as a discussion but given the new guidelines for posting, I thought I would post it as blog. Also anybody who saw this before will find that I discovered a few important things (like the minimum SNR for zigbee). The spreadsheet that I created I left this as an editable Google Docs sheet so please don't save as you play with it.
With this spreadsheet you will find that in some cases it would be possible to transmit 10km, with the right antennas… Continue
Microsoft releases DIY robotics development suite
Posted on May 21, 2010 at 7:20am 6 Comments 0 Likes
How cool would it be to be the guy at Microsoft whose job it is to build robots all day. Microsoft apparently released a tool set to build robots on the .NET framework.
The good news is that it is free. The even better news is that it only runs on Windows
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The good news is that it is free. The even better news is that it only runs on Windows
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 7:26pm on May 14, 2013,
Richard Evans said… Hi Adam
We have started using AeroHive access points at our company "SpawGlass"
I notice with interest your post about putting a wireless router on your Quad and creating a hotspot, the word AeroHive caught my interest.
Great Product!
Richard
- At 9:05am on May 15, 2013,
Adam Conway said… That is awesome! I actually flew it last week with some success. I am going to do it again this week. I looked you up in our ERP and found you guys. Have you built a drone yet?
- At 9:10am on May 15, 2013, Adam Conway said…
Okay, I just looked at your profile and realized that was a dumb question. Let me know if you want to extend my "experiment" :)
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