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Pete Hollands
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DeveloperPete Hollands commented on Matthew Coleman's blog post Fly-by-polar
DeveloperPete Hollands commented on Georacer's blog post Hill Cruiser - An RC Model Autopilot
DeveloperPete Hollands commented on Georacer's blog post Hill Cruiser - An RC Model Autopilot
DeveloperPete Hollands commented on Bertrand Duchiron's blog post Eurocopter OPV Optionaly Piloted Vehicle
Robin Szeto commented on Pete Hollands's blog post Demonstration of Adaptive ControlDeveloperPete Hollands commented on Drone Savant's blog post James May's Toy Stories Flight Club (featuring an ArduPilot)
DeveloperPete Hollands replied to Leo Hogg's discussion Calculated wind vector.180deg out
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- About Me:
- Experienced model builder, and experienced in I.T.
And videos of the project are here.
I have been writing software to capture telemetry from the plane, and plot it's "intentions" and resulting position in the sky. An example is shown below.
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Pete Hollands's Blog
MatrixPIlot Sonar Landing with the Logo Flight Plan Language
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:26pm 7 Comments 7 Likes
Hi Folks, I've been working on sonar for a few weeks and I made 6 landings yesterday as shown in the Video above.
The detailed specification of the Maxbotix MB1230 is here.
The processing of the Sonar information to do…
ContinueDIY Drones T3 racing in Venice
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:55am 18 Comments 6 Likes
What's going on here? This is a "Virtual Venice UAV race". It's based on the DIYDrones T3 figure of 8 competition.
The screncast's purpose is to show how pilots can potentially fly their planes in different parts of the world, and then have their geo position and time base altered so that they end up racing side by side in Google…
ContinueMatrixPilot 3.1 Released
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 7:00am 10 Comments 5 Likes
MatrixPilot 3.1 is released. The project continues to mature, with a fantastic IMU that is still moving ahead with deep research from William Premerlani. Ben Levitt continues to add amazing features such as the built-in firmware for the OSD hardware that can be attached to the UDB3.…
ContinueReduced Yaw Drift / Fast Gyro Sampling with the UDB / MatrixPilot
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:07am 23 Comments 0 Likes
Reduced Yaw Drift / Fast Gyro Sampling with the UDB / MatrixPilot from Pete Hollands .
[Note: Apologies for the low sound volume in this video. Please turn your volume up.]
This is a demonstration of the reduced Yaw Drift which is possible when sampling the gyros at 30,000 times / second (Thanks to William Premerlani for this R&D and code). Using QGroundControl and…
ContinueTesting a DIYDrones magnetometer in HK's GCS
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:48am 34 Comments 0 Likes
Testing a DIYDrones magnetometer in HK's GCS from Pete Hollands on Vimeo.
I test the DIY Drones magnetometer ( HMC5843 magnetometer breakout board ) using Happy Killmore's Ground Control Station connected using SERIAL_UDB_EXTRA telemetry format, to a UAV DevBoard V3 running
MatrixPilot (revision 729 of trunk).
photos:…
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- At 2:08pm on April 23, 2010,
Vassilis Fotinopoulos said… - Congratulations!
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