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D6T-44L-06 thermal image sensor

Started Apr 27 0 Replies

D6T-44L-06 thermal image sensor from omron that might be worth a look.  Two varients a 4x4 pixel matrix and an 8x1 matrix.…Continue

eye tracking for camera rotation on uav

Started Dec 20, 2012 0 Replies

some of you may be aware that the Ardueye project has many applications, one of which is optical flow tracking.  We have used this for an experiment to track my eyeball to move a scroll mouse on the…Continue

New Zealand police investigating the use of drones

Started Aug 30, 2012 0 Replies

As the title suggests the link and video says it all.…Continue

Autonomous fishing drone and/or sea floor mapping drone

Started Jul 24, 2012 0 Replies

This discussion in part is to see how viable the current code and mission planner is for the rover to be used as simple steering and direction for a fishing drone/ sea floor mapping drone.In New…Continue

 

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D6T-44L-06 thermal image sensor

D6T-44L-06 thermal image sensor from omron that might be worth a look.  Two varients a 4x4 pixel matrix and an 8x1 matrix.http://www.omron.com/ecb/products/pdf/en-d6t.pdfhttp://www.engadget.com/2012/07/13/omrom-mems-thermal-sensor/See More
Apr 27
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eye tracking for camera rotation on uav

some of you may be aware that the Ardueye project has many applications, one of which is optical flow tracking.  We have used this for an experiment to track my eyeball to move a scroll mouse on the pc.  But it can just as easily be adapted instead of using the gyro/ accelerometer headsets for controlling camera rotation.  Our basic blog is here  http://embeddedeye.com/profiles/blogs/eye-tracking-experimentSee More
Dec 20, 2012
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Clinton Mckinnon commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Using a mouse chip to measure optical flow
"Hi Chris Could you please provide a modern link to the bs2 software etc thanks Clinton"
Nov 25, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon commented on Clinton Mckinnon's blog post Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)
"To date placed apm1 with rover code as well as mounted a smaller secondary telemetry Xbee. Working on a different frequency than the apm telemetry radio hardware and software appears nearly ready to run, some range checking has been done on both…"
Oct 5, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon commented on Clinton Mckinnon's blog post Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)
"pictures of boat after first trial in pool.  The transducer is mounted at the back on the left side of transom. The MTK gps is still reading wrong and was at least 20mtrs out from where the pool was, this gps is not connected to the APM but is…"
Sep 21, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon commented on Clinton Mckinnon's blog post Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)
"Yes we will try to use ArduRover or ArduPilot with running the boat as the exercise is to set up the way points and run the boat using existing setups.  We just are working our way thru Harald's blog as above. Thanks both for the…"
Sep 14, 2012

DeveloperR_Lefebvre commented on Clinton Mckinnon's blog post Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)
"Not quite sure what you're trying to do, but couldn't you simply use the ArduRover2 code to run the boat?  I don't think it would care if it's on a rover or a boat."
Sep 14, 2012
Schwabenkart commented on Clinton Mckinnon's blog post Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)
"Could be helpful for you to contact Harald. He also put ardupilot into water -> http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list?user=3um9qjnkq5rxo"
Sep 13, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon posted a blog post

Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)

This project utilises the concept of using the existing APM and configuration tools and a seperate radio link to send back specific telemetry data, in this case depth and a…See More
Sep 13, 2012
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New Zealand police investigating the use of drones

As the title suggests the link and video says it all.http://www.3news.co.nz/Police-admit-drones-possible-in-New-Zealand/tabid/423/articleID/267447/Default.aspxSee More
Aug 30, 2012
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Autonomous fishing drone and/or sea floor mapping drone

This discussion in part is to see how viable the current code and mission planner is for the rover to be used as simple steering and direction for a fishing drone/ sea floor mapping drone.In New Zealand small fishing drones are used to tow out long lines from the beach up to 2 miles out with a maximum of 25 hooks.  These drones or tows, have no smarts other than a timer for distance and rudimentary offsets to take care of drift.The link below is a typical set up commercially available.…See More
Jul 24, 2012
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Clinton Mckinnon replied to Oyvind Dahl's discussion We consider offering radar altimeter for UAV's
"both please."
Jul 9, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon replied to Oyvind Dahl's discussion We consider offering radar altimeter for UAV's
"Would like to see a solution for using a quad to fly a pre-mapped path of a building envelope to gather science data but this needs some fairly good height control and object avoidance.  The resolution needs to be of a scale that for each…"
Jul 8, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon replied to Monroe Lee King Jr.'s discussion Control Software in the group DIYDrones - CNC Project
"conversion kit link is below and we got the full x2 system and sourced some 200 ounce/inch steppers, second hand.  Sorry this bit is on the wrong thread http://cncfusion.com/minimill1.html"
Jun 7, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon replied to Monroe Lee King Jr.'s discussion Control Software in the group DIYDrones - CNC Project
"My machines run Mach3 with Lazycam and either use Corel draw or Turbocad for the drawings.  simple and plenty of info if you get stuck.  The machines range from disused gantry robots to an x2 table with a ball screw kit.  another…"
Jun 7, 2012
Clinton Mckinnon commented on Clinton Mckinnon's blog post APM as mobility challenged aid
"Hi Had played around with open EEG as when I looked at emotiv it was hard to get the hardware and the development kit unless you were into games.  This was about 4 years ago, when things started to deteriorate.  Thank you  for the…"
May 16, 2012

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Aquatic Drone (APM-powered boat)

Posted on September 13, 2012 at 6:30pm 5 Comments

This project utilises the concept of using the existing APM and configuration tools and a seperate radio link to send back specific telemetry…

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APM as mobility challenged aid

Posted on November 6, 2011 at 4:00pm 12 Comments

Many will know of people who through illness or injury who used to fly etc... and no longer can, would like to be able to do so again (I am in the above). 

Our project (my wife is now my hands) is to use a head based sensor and the APM to achieve some form of control.  If there is anyone interested in this project and some genuine interest I'm sure my lovely wife will add to this blog.

To date we have built a stable quad with our own cnc cuttout components…

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