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How many push buttons for the Ardustation
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How many push buttons should the ArduStation have 5 or six, I have ordered two ArduStation and both have come with just 5 push buttons but there are places for 6 push buttons on the board and all pho…

Started this discussion. Last reply by Scott Plunkett Oct. 21, 2009.

uBlox adapter battery
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Sorry folks I posted this in the Blogs section earlier this morning by mistake. My bad. I have a Newbie question about the uBlox adapter battery life span. 2 weeks + or - ? Jordi, do we need to pow…

Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Anderson Oct. 5, 2009.

 

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Scott Plunkett replied to Sergio Rivero's discussion 'How many push buttons for the Ardustation'
I'm pretty sure there are indeed supposed to be 6. The Shack should have equivalent parts.
October 21, 2009
Sergio Rivero added a discussion
How many push buttons for the Ardustation
How many push buttons should the ArduStation have 5 or six, I have ordered two ArduStation and both have come with just 5 push buttons but there are places for 6 push buttons on the board and all photos of the ArduStation show 6 push buttons being u…
October 21, 2009
Garry Qualls commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
The big guidance & navigational challenges for ARES arise from performing an aeromagnetic survey to investigate Mars' crazy crustal magnetism. This requires multiple, offset, parallel tracks at a constant altitude. There is an IMU on board, but sinc…
October 7, 2009
Condor commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
I would have thought that they could have dropped some stationary radio beacons in to improve their accuracy.
October 6, 2009
automatik commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
that's a beautiful bird !
October 6, 2009
Sergio Rivero commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
The navigation is not quite as impressive as the Video Camera mounted on the Tail of the plane. They claim that they can read the writing on a candy wrapper sitting on the ground from a Mile up with it.
October 6, 2009
isobot commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
Check out the test drop video at http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/graphics/dropStory.320x240.mov
October 6, 2009
Sergio Rivero commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
Condor, I found this explanation for how they will navigate the plane on Mars. The link takes you to a PDF file with some data on it. pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMUAV2003_834/PV2003_6608.pdf
October 6, 2009
Sergio Rivero commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
They have a simulator you can download and see how it flys. It's under the Multimedia menu option. Kids might like it.
October 6, 2009
Sergio Rivero commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
Star Navigation, like Colombus. Maybe they have mapped coordinates on previous missions to Mars and are giving it coordinates from those previous scouting missions. Just a thought.
October 6, 2009
Chris Anderson commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
Spacecraft use celestial navigation (stars). Maybe that would work on Mars?
October 6, 2009
Condor commented on Sergio Rivero's blog post 'ARES Platform The Mars Plane'
Anybody have an idea how they would navigate accurately without GPS?
October 6, 2009
Sergio Rivero added a blog post
A Link to the Mars Plane NASA project. http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/platform.html I seen this and thought it might interest to the members of DIY. A long range drone to be sure.
October 6, 2009
Chris Anderson replied to Sergio Rivero's discussion 'uBlox adapter battery'
Sorry, I stand corrected. The battery (it's actually a supercap) is rechargeable. It will last years, but each charge only retains sat info for about ten days. Config info is retained in nonvolatile memory.
October 5, 2009
Chris Anderson replied to Sergio Rivero's discussion 'uBlox adapter battery'
The battery should last years. No need to power the unit on to preserve memory.
September 28, 2009
Sergio Rivero added a discussion
uBlox adapter battery
Sorry folks I posted this in the Blogs section earlier this morning by mistake. My bad. I have a Newbie question about the uBlox adapter battery life span. 2 weeks + or - ? Jordi, do we need to power the unit up to retain the pre-loaded program wh…
September 28, 2009

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ARES Platform The Mars Plane

A Link to the Mars Plane NASA project. http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/platform.html


I seen this and thought it might interest to the members of DIY. A long range drone to be sure.

Posted on October 6, 2009 at 9:23pm — 10 Comments

 
 
 

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