Hamish
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About Me:
Aerospace engineering student at Glasgow uni.
Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
im into RC flying, got some experience thar

Hooked on programming since getting an arduino . .

they kind of come together in UAV's, amarite?

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Android phone's sensors

Started Feb 5, 2011 0 Replies

Hi peeps, Just though It'd best if I mention something I'm doing, perhaps somebody has already achieved this. Practically all Anrdoid phones have a 3DOF accelerometer and a 3DOF magnetometer, the…Continue

Tags: IMU, sensors, port, serial, Android

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  • Rory Paul
 

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Android phone's sensors

Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:31am 10 Comments

Hi peeps,

Thought i ought to share what I'm working on, in brief it's an IMU using an android smart phone's sensors.  Here goes...

 

 

Practically all Anrdoid phones have a 3DOF accelerometer and a 3DOF magnetometer, so i've decided…

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scratchbuilt 2m span airframe for 200g+ payload

Posted on January 2, 2011 at 10:00am 6 Comments

Here's a brief wee build log of a plane i promised myself I would make. I'll make the simple plans available for anyone and everyone.

Any suggestions are very welcome !

 

It's mission is to carry a nikon L4 to take some aerial photos, with an efficient wing optimised for a cruise at about 35 km/h.  It must be stable and fairly easy to fly,have a pusher prop configuration and be easily constructed…

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Taking requests for an airframe design !

Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:30am 29 Comments



Over christmas I'm going to make an airframe just as an exercise, and since I don't actually need a new airplane I'm taking requests for payloads and missions. I'd rather make a plane thats useful to someone than one thats useless to everyone, catch my… Continue

Heres a video bound to make you cry

Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:02pm 85 Comments

I know its hardly UAV related, but still .. .



If you don't cry of the sheer beauty and excitment of fpv'ing around new york, you'll at least cry about breaking the laws and bla bla regulations FAA whatever.…





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Latest Activity

Hamish commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Invensense releases licence to allow use of the MPU-6000 DMP processor
"Jumbo news, it's been a year or more since people got excited about the DMP but couldn't use it."
Jul 27, 2012
Hamish replied to Imtiyaz's discussion Use Smart Phone Sensors to Build Drone
"Hi. I played with getting a serial connection to get my phone sensor data over to an arduino. Ages ago and it worked but required a fairly modded phone! Also, no integration with autopilot. Have a look anyway progsrp.moonfruit.com"
Jul 13, 2012
Imtiyaz commented on Hamish's blog post Android phone's sensors
"This is interesting project.. I am willing to contribute if there is group working on it. I just posted a question at http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/use-smart-phone-sensors-to-build-drone"
Jul 12, 2012
Hamish commented on Hamish's blog post Android phone's sensors
"OhSoot I made progress ages ago but forgot to post! Here's a site with most of what I managed I got serial working and made a program that uses the android orientation functions + a PID to feed a serial output, which an arduino could interpret…"
Jan 27, 2012
Navigator commented on Hamish's blog post Android phone's sensors
"Hi Hamesh, I am also working on smartphone orientation using Gyro and Accelerometer and Magnetometer sensors, I am trying to use DCM Algo, How is going on on ur side , any Progress, I am sure u need Gyro for correct orientation. Regards Navigator"
Jan 27, 2012
Hamish commented on Trent at MyGeekShow's blog post The end of my Modular Test Platform and a new direction
"@Paul Yeah, i'd say conceptual approach is a little too advanced, great book though. Design for homebuilders is an excellent reccommendation, it's sitting beside my bed right now!"
Oct 9, 2011
Hamish commented on Trent at MyGeekShow's blog post The end of my Modular Test Platform and a new direction
Oct 8, 2011
Hamish commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Choreographed quadcopters
"why is nobody watching from the windows !"
Sep 25, 2011

Comment Wall (4 comments)

At 2:16pm on November 11, 2010, Henrik Graversen said…
Hi Hamish,
the system we use in Denmark is developed by the German company GRAW. They use 401 Mhz digital FM. The data is easy to get from a cheap 100$ scanner and send to your soundcard on your PC. You can find more informatione here : http://www.coaa.co.uk/sondemonitor.htm
Best regards
Henrik
At 3:30am on December 10, 2010, Avik Dhupar said…

Hi!

After a lot of googling, I've finally found out (the only) way to interface Joysticks to a custom application running on Windows 7 -- Visual Studio and DirectX DirectInput. I'm downloading the DirectX SDK and I'll try it out!

Peace!

At 4:13pm on December 16, 2010, Rory Paul said…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-1201166

 

I am now buying loto tickets as I can see into the future...

At 6:20pm on December 16, 2010, Rory Paul said…

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