Stephen Dade
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Stephen Dade commented on Stephen Dade's blog post Quadcopter Workshop
"Hi Richard, The extent of my advertising was this message to my local hackerspace's mailing list: http://www.makehackvoid.com/pipermail/makers/2013-January/004559.html To be fair, I (and a few others) had been showing off and demonstrating the…"
6 hours ago
Stephen Dade replied to Hugues's discussion What means in tlogs the rxerrors_radio_t ? in the group ArduCopter User Group
"You will get the occasional dropped packet every now and again. Could you post a plot of your RSSI, noise, remRSSI and remNoise? "
7 hours ago
Richard Boyhan commented on Stephen Dade's blog post Quadcopter Workshop
"Hi Stephen, Been trying to hookup with a local university to put on a workshop here is South Florida.  Did you have a flyer that you used to advertize?  Can I get a copy? Thanks,Richard"
7 hours ago
Stephen Dade commented on Yusuf Pirgali's blog post HD video for UAV's
"Another factor to consider are the regulations surrounding maximum transmitter power. For example, in Australia the maximum limit for 2.4/5.8GHz Wifi is 4W max EIRP (from http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2011C00543). This can severely limit your…"
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Stephen Dade commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Ausdroid: according to the challenge rules, Joe will be wearing a high-visibility jacket. It should be noted that there's other high-viz things such as roof and water reflections within the search area, making the filtering a bit more difficult"
May 8
ausdroid commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Has Joe been wearing the same clothing for all the challenges?  Are teams trying to filter for the hi-viz jacket?"
May 8
Stephen Dade replied to Laser Developer's discussion Laser altimeter - new design
"That looks pretty cool :) I can see it being useful for terrain avoidance and terrain tracking for UAV's. Depending on the minimum range, it could be used for precision landing approaches too. My UAV group spent some time looking at the…"
May 2
Rayrquest commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Seriously... Lets put DIYdrones.com on the map with this Aussie comp... although we should probably use a softer name.... the connotation in and of itself suggest something bleak.  Albeit, it makes sense to us but it challenges the public to…"
Apr 28
Warren Eather commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Was inspired by CUAV and the other teams while watching at Kingaroy 2012 to give it ago. Sutherland Shire UAV"
Apr 27
Rayrquest commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"I went to the site to register.  The only thing I couldn't come up with is a team name.  Otherwise, I'm all in.  If anyone wants to collaborate please contact me.  I'll be putting together a presentation for…"
Apr 26
Scott James commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Ha Ha, I'd love to but my time is getting chewed up racing multicopters! :) Actually I have a ATTO Pilot V3 here if anyone wants a good cheap autopilot?? "
Apr 25
Warren Eather commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Melbourne UAV has played a big part of the OBC success.You guys are UAV Rockstars! Encore!! Encore!! "
Apr 25
Scott James commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Yeah, it's easy to say but another thing to do :) "
Apr 25

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Gary Mortimer commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Go on Scott...if just for the video challenge still the best."
Apr 25

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Andrew Tridgell commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"Please do Scott! I hope 2014 is finally the year the judges need to get out the tape measure to see who wins. Unless of course someone manages to land the bottle on Joes nose :) Actually, that raises an interesting point - where on Joe do the…"
Apr 25
Scott James commented on Stephen Dade's blog post 2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released
"It's tempting to get involved again!"
Apr 25

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About Me:
Communications Engineer by day, creating UAV's by night.

I also do MAVProxy development in my space time.
Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm part of the CanberraUAV team, who came first place in the 2012 Outback Challenge.
Hometown:
Canberra

Stephen Dade's Blog

2014 UAV Challenge Outback Rules Released

Posted on April 24, 2013 at 7:30pm 11 Comments

The rules and dates of the 2014 UAV Outback Challenge have been released - http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/index.cfm?contentID=49

The aim of this challenge is to design/build/operate a UAV beyond line-of-sight to search and 2.5km area for a missing hiker and drop a bottle of water to them within…

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Quadcopter Workshop

Posted on March 28, 2013 at 6:51pm 11 Comments

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Over the last 4 weeks in Canberra (Australia) I've been a running a build-and-fly-your-own-quadcopter workshop, based on the APM.

We had a dozen excited people attend the workshop and all were successfully able to build their quadcopters. The flying lessons were mostly successful - we only had a 25% crash rate (mostly broken arms, easily…

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Another Hero 3 Camera Test

Posted on December 18, 2012 at 5:12am 5 Comments

The CanberraUAV team spent last Sunday playing with our new Hero 3 camera.

This is our X8 flying wing (piloted by Tridge) running through it's paces at CMAC:

MAVProxy - Now Windows Compatible

Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:30am 6 Comments

MAVProxy is a open source minimalist and plugin-based GCS for Mavlink based autopilots (such as the APM). Until recently, it was only able to run on Linux systems. It has since been updated by Tridge and myself to include full compatibility for Windows systems.

MAVProxy can be found at https://github.com/tridge/MAVProxy and an installation and user's guide is available at…

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