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bGatti commented on Jeff's blog post 'Transverse Rotor UAV: Articulating Arm CONCEPT'
I guess the Horiz tail is sufficient. Still looks like a weight-shifting flight control schema. More stable with airflow over the H-Stab.
3 hours ago
bGatti commented on Jeff's blog post 'Transverse Rotor UAV: Articulating Arm CONCEPT'
I'm pretty sure this is not an actively stable design, so it must be passively stable (weight lower than thrust line). Given a passively stable design, there are far fewer servos required. You could probably get away with a single servo to control r…
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David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post 'President Promises to restructure exports controls'
HoverX, you said exactly what I was going to say. This was a pain when building the Booz boards and meant we paid a lot more than people in the US pay for their parts, we sourced the gyros from China but it cost more for the parts and a bit more for…
January 28
Mike commented on bGatti's blog post 'President Promises to restructure exports controls'
Yeah like export restrictions prevented 911 from happening...and won't stop another in the future. Utter nonsense. If goods are freely available to the US public then they are essentially availbale to the rest of the world - one way or another.
January 28
HoverX commented on bGatti's blog post 'President Promises to restructure exports controls'
Outdated yes, certainly. This is why we Europeans can't buy parts like Mem's gyros at Digikey US at decent prices because of export restrictions while the same parts are available here (but more expensive).
January 28
Gary Mortimer commented on bGatti's blog post 'President Promises to restructure exports controls'
Well your supposed to have a special agreement with the UK and Australia but have stopped that, more than happy for technology to flow from the rest of the world in.... Just like the jet......
January 27
Paul commented on bGatti's blog post 'President Promises to restructure exports controls'
I think a lot of export controls are outdated and need to be rethought. Look at the history of crypto and how it was considered munitions (probably still is)
January 27

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President Promises to restructure exports controls

In his State of the Union Address tonight, President Obama acknowledged that export controls are an unnecessary burden on the US economy and promised to restructure exports "in a manner consistent with our Security".

No guarantee on the outcome, but it's a start...

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 6:42pm — 8 Comments

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Only you can prevent UAV patent trolls.

I was researching prior art for a fully redundant motor/ESC/Battery device, and came across this patent for the the Segway ESC by Dean Kamens group (DEKA). And I realized that given enough money and an interest in a particular field, these companies could patent the obvious and make open source a difficult proposition.

In r… Continue

Posted on December 21, 2009 at 12:08pm — 9 Comments

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Baro for $5


New Product on Mouser

Last time I looked barometers were fairly pricey. Add this to a $2 relative pressure sensor and you've got both atmospheric sensors in the single digits.

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 1:24pm — 1 Comment

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$26 GPS with NMEA on Skytraq

When the most expensive component goes to half price, it's a day to remember?

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=EGPS-6500&cat=CLR&cpc=CLR



We'll see.

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 10:47am — 3 Comments

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Free Day is January 7th, 2010!



Just begs to be mentioned here.

Ardupilots for Free Day is January 7th.

Sparkfun

Posted on November 23, 2009 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

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