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Paul Mather commented on Tom P's blog post Gluon Control Station
"Nice work Tom!"
Sep 18, 2011
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Sep 16, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gluonpilot first impressions
"Sorry Chris I didn't get your last question earlier. Output 2 is the aileron, why would you want to assign it to anything else?"
Apr 1, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gluonpilot first impressions
"@Chris: basically you have 8 PWM outputs. The contents of each channel depends on the "mixing" type selected in the Control configuration tab page of gluonconfig."
Mar 8, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Gluonpilot first impressions
"Thanks for the review Chris! Let me answer some of your questions: - It supports 8 channels out (and not 5 :-) ) - It supports 6 channels in, but the "RTF-kit" only has 4 wires because the currently autopilot only needs 4 inputs (pitch,…"
Mar 7, 2011
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Real Time Operating Systems for autopilots [UPDATED]
"@Curt: You will need to look at the vTaskDelayUntil function"
Dec 23, 2009
Tom P commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Real Time Operating Systems for autopilots [UPDATED]
"@Curt: It's actually a lot simpler. You just tell the scheduler to run this function once every 10ms (for example). The scheduler does the rest (no matter how long your function takes to execute - assuming that your function finished in less…"
Dec 22, 2009
Tom P commented on William Premerlani's blog post UAV DevBoard will be back in stock
"@Bill, I made a design with the LISY in it myself, but decided not to make a prototype because of these warnings I read. Personally, I can not think of a reason why the higher sample rate would make any difference, mainly because the vibrating mass…"
May 8, 2009

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Gluon Control Station

Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:30am 1 Comment

A year and a half after its first autonomous flight, the gluonpilot finally has a powerful ground control station.

 

 

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At 11:36am on November 11, 2008, Koen Delvaux said…
I even think I know who you are, I once commented on your blog (Pycke or something) about your algorithm to do stabilisation based on IR sensors.

It's a slow project for me, a bit of on/off when I find a few hours time. But now the intend is to fly by Christmass.

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