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Jeff 9.2 inches tip to tip. Will it fly??!!





Rotors pitched to induce nose-up pitch and counter-clockwise yaw

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Added by Jeff on February 9, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Chris Anderson National Robotics Week

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Added by Chris Anderson on February 8, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Jeff Transverse Rotor UAV: Articulating Arm CONCEPT


This is a lunchtime sketch: will make this quick.

Two independent brushed (thinking weight and cost here) motors directly drive counter-rotating rotors.

I used 4x Blue Arrow S0251 micro servos as a template only, for this concept, to drive the ar… Continue

Added by Jeff on February 8, 2010 at 10:30am — 7 Comments

Ryan Beall Position & Wind Extended Kalman

Wrote up a wind estimator today. It is based off of a simple model which requires very little inputs from sensors.

psi - true heading (not course over ground)

theta - pitch

airspeed

GPS lat and long

It is a simple model. The wind model has no dynamics which helps

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Added by Ryan Beall on February 7, 2010 at 10:00pm — 28 Comments

Chris Anderson No podcast/livechat tonight

Tim's under the weather, so no podcast/livechat tonight. But we've got a doozy for you next Sunday (the 14)!
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Added by Chris Anderson on February 7, 2010 at 8:09pm — No Comments

Tiaan Roux Burglars use toy chopper to steal

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Added by Tiaan Roux on February 7, 2010 at 6:29pm — 4 Comments

Dr. Stewart Pid Easy Star Fiberglass Fuse

I'm in the process of making a mold for a easystar fuse. I used the replacement foam fuse from the local hobby shop and mounted it to a board, filled the pushrod channels and servo holes on the outside. Fuse plug is painted and waxed.

I must decide where to install hatches (if any). I still have the removable canopy as a seperate part, and will mold the wing insert seperately.

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Added by Dr. Stewart Pid on February 7, 2010 at 3:37pm — 6 Comments

Jeff Transverse Rotor UAV: Bell-Hiller CONCEPT



I have been moving forward with my project to build a transverse rotor UAV. Here is a quick overview of this Bell-Hiller concept. (Oh, btw this is only a quick sketch done in Google Sketchup, it isn't totally to scale nor have I drawn in the entire structure)


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Added by Jeff on February 7, 2010 at 11:30am — 10 Comments

Michael Zaffuto Arduino Version 0018 Release!!

v0018 is officially released and can be downloaded and installed!

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ReleaseNotes

Current Users of Arduino should continue to compile and upload their

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Added by Michael Zaffuto on February 6, 2010 at 3:48pm — 4 Comments

Martin Seven USAF MAV Ornithopters

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Added by Martin Seven on February 6, 2010 at 3:25am — 6 Comments

Tiaan Roux DIY Drones - South African Chapter first general meeting

Hear ye! hear ye! On this 5th day of the month of February in the year 2010 it happened, the first get together of the South African Chapter of DIYDrones!

I would say it turned out very successful, starting off very informal then quickly turning in to a storm of ideas lasting quite a few hours. Hopefully the first of many!

Sarel will post some more info on ideas and decisions made.

Thank you to Sarel and Gar
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Added by Tiaan Roux on February 5, 2010 at 10:49am — 21 Comments

Paul Marsh DIYDrones Gets Nod in IEEE Spectrum Magazine

DIYDrones got a brief mention in an article in Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The article is about first-person-view (FPV) flying, but the author mentions he read about FPV here and at FPVPilot.com.

DIY Eye in the Sky

Get a first-person view from the air with

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Added by Paul Marsh on February 5, 2010 at 5:28am — 1 Comment

Morli New AP with many ground barking tech. What category of autopilot is this?



Guys , should we have some thing like this( caption contest) going? Any way , diy AP cannot get any better than this , High lights/salient features.
>4 point landing gear, self retraction, auto flaps, self healing too
> no GPS required ,"tail wagging" is automatic (most of the times)
>RTL Works in air and on Land too!!
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Added by Morli on February 5, 2010 at 4:30am — 20 Comments

Jack Crossfire THIS WEEK IN AEROSPACE

MARCY 3 REVEALED, MARCY 2 REVEALED, MARCY 1 RADIO DISASTERS

MARCY 3 REVEALED



There's the current Marcy 3 plan. Unfortunately not enough space to build her. Basically install a fuselage around Vika 1. It's obsolete but it wa… Continue

Added by Jack Crossfire on February 5, 2010 at 12:39am — 3 Comments

Earl What Size Parachute for ALL these planes ? EZ* , Multiplux EZCUB,Apprentice15,Slo-Stick

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Added by Earl on February 4, 2010 at 10:00pm — 5 Comments

Chris Anderson DIY Drones authoring tools upgrade to rich text entry

If you're posting a blog post you'll note that the formatting tools are now much more powerful, allowing for WYSIWYG text and photo entry. No excuse for not having photos, videos and other eye candy! (Seriously, it's a very good idea to start your post with a relevent pho

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Added by Chris Anderson on February 4, 2010 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Riccardo Kuebler Acromaster as UAVDevBoard platform

Hi,

here are some experiences with Bill Premerlani amazing UAVDevBoard on a Multiplex Acromaster.

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Added by Riccardo Kuebler on February 4, 2010 at 11:30am — 16 Comments

quadrocopter Octocopter

The base station and head tracking gyro stabilised camera mount is really working a treat. Check out http://www.eyeinthesky.net.au out now. Continue

Added by quadrocopter on February 4, 2010 at 3:25am — No Comments

Nima K Project Andromeda update - CNC Machine and sponsors

We have been working very hard on the CNC machine and it's almost finished. The machine will form a vital part of our arsenal leading up to the competition. We will use it to create our launch/arrestor systems and also the molds for the airframe. It is in working condition at the moment but we just ne… Continue

Added by Nima K on February 4, 2010 at 12:45am — 2 Comments

Gary Thomas Seattle Space Needle scale-model "Airframe" & Quad-Rotor Helicopter "Powerplant" 'makes it so'.

That Post Title's pretty much it in a vital new treasure-chestnut shell ..... Imagine/Visualize: [Top portion of] Seattle Space Needle "Airframe" in scale-model form New extended range fuel cell, liquid hydrogen and 4-electric quad-motor "Powerplant" is in the middle of .... That is all Jack Frost Nippin' @ Your LH & LOX Nose ... Help me honor the memory of our 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was very much alive & well in 1962 when the Space Needle Building was first dedic… Continue

Added by Gary Thomas on February 3, 2010 at 11:42pm — No Comments

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