April 2010 Blog Posts (114)

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3D Robotics Some juicy details in article about Insitu, ScanEagle and founder rivalries

Here's an excerpt from an article in Willamette Week, a Portland weekly. It's a mix of well reported details about the founders and clashes within the company, plus some clueless…
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Added by Chris Anderson on April 30, 2010 at 11:00pm — 14 Comments

Quadrotor using SparkFun Razor 9DOF (6DOM) IMU Flies!

For a class project, we built a quadrotor using the Sparkfun Razor IMU and a Atmega32U4 running the PID controls. After about a month of work, we successfully flew it with great results (alright, it wasn't super stable, but it stayed up!). Check it out at www.wyvernupenn.blogspot.com.…



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Added by Bill E on April 30, 2010 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

DEATH OF A FLAG







The 1st flag to be lifted autonomously suffered an acidic fate...



















when our field battery fell over & leaked acid on it. Lead acid

batteries do pour… Continue

Added by Jack Crossfire on April 30, 2010 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

MicroPilot Newsletter - Vibration

We've just posted the second issue of MicroPilot's newsletter. It contains a basic introduction to Vibration. The newsletter can be found at:

MicroPilot News Vol. 1 Issue 2

Added by MicroPilot News on April 30, 2010 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

DIY Flex Circuits

PCB Boards are Cool, but the Holy Grail for robotics are the Kapton Flex Circuits which are both wire and circuit in one.

Using This…

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Added by bGatti on April 29, 2010 at 9:56am — 11 Comments

Horus UAV

Well this is my first blog post , so i thought id begin by sharing this link .Dont know if anyone has stumbled upon this one before.
more info can be found here:

Added by Abishek Hariharan on April 29, 2010 at 6:32am — 3 Comments


Moderator Hit the cut away, hit the cut away



You have to love Australians, the caption behind the newsreader, Lead Balloon, love…
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Added by Gary Mortimer on April 29, 2010 at 4:00am — 13 Comments


3D Robotics Skywalker: Best UAV platform ever? (I'm in love)

[UPDATE: Hooks has, er, hooked us up with a 10% discount at FPVFlying.com, for this and anything else they sell. Just use the discount code "diydrones". Awesome! Thanks… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on April 28, 2010 at 8:00pm — 160 Comments

The Trouble with Communications

Hey guys,



I'm still working on the next installment on my SAGAR drone, however my progress has slowed, as I suddenly find myself in Boston for 7 weeks. Life can be very exciting when you work for the Department of Defense.



In the mean time, I have been asked by a few people over at SocietyofRobots.com on how SAGAR's micro-controller (an Axon) communicates with LabView. Instead of a bland answer, I spent s little time writting about the different problems hobbyist can run… Continue

Added by Bill Porter on April 28, 2010 at 6:16pm — No Comments

Possible Backup Communication System

Edit: Forgot to put in links:
GE864 Page at Telit.com:…
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Added by Nima K on April 28, 2010 at 4:30pm — 7 Comments


3D Robotics ArduPilot Mega Now Available!



It's available now from Sparkfun! $59.95.



And cool home…

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Added by Chris Anderson on April 28, 2010 at 1:00pm — 44 Comments

Scan Eagle in Afghanistan

Cool video I came across on youtube, he also has many others but not UAV related...
Enjoy…
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Added by Max on April 27, 2010 at 11:39pm — 14 Comments

Dark Star v2

I have lightened the Quad and made the cargo bay bigger. Still need to do landing gear and put the ArduIMU in to control it.

The electronics bay screws on the top.

Here is some pics.

Earl



Very soon for pan and tilt camera. Lots of room.

The electronics bay. It unscrews from the main body.Holds the batteries also.…

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Added by Earl on April 27, 2010 at 4:00pm — 43 Comments

My AGV





You can see my forum post here :http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/gps-libraryish-code?xg_source=activity


Here is all the information on it here :http://letsmakerobots.com/node/18922


Video :…
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Added by Patrick Mccabe on April 27, 2010 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments


3D Robotics 9,000 members!



We hit 9,000 members today, on the same growth trend as we've seen so far this year (adding 1,000 members every two months--we hit…

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Added by Chris Anderson on April 27, 2010 at 9:00am — 10 Comments

Video grabber for those that record their wireless video on a notebook

DealExtreme has a new video grabber on their website. The problem for the versions they already sold for some longer was that modern OS's were not always supported because drivers being unavailable. I had a lot of trouble getting my grabber running on windows 7 and ended up making my notebook dualboot Windows XP to be able to use it.



Here is a link to Video Grabber…



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Added by CrashingDutchman on April 27, 2010 at 5:23am — 9 Comments


3D Robotics What our cousins in rocketry are doing



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Added by Chris Anderson on April 27, 2010 at 12:22am — 11 Comments

TEMOR GCS: What do you want to see in a GCS?

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I am working on a piece of software for a ground control station, names TREMOR. TREMOR has a couple key features:
-cross platform compatibility: built in java, program works on linux machines through a shell script, and executable on windows
-multiple map sources from NASA servers, MS servers, and others.
-immediate location maps…
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Added by Ravi Gaddipati on April 26, 2010 at 8:00pm — 14 Comments

Maker Fair NC

Make Magazine first annual East Coast Maker Faire? was held yesterday in Durham, NC. I made the 3 hour trip from Charlotte by amtrak and brought my daughter along for the experience. It was a good event - some 2000 attendees. The local Arduino club and Aerobatic Robot clubs were well represented, with a laser-cut quad in progress and several Arduino breadboard affairs. There were plenty of Sparkfun objects (LED button squares, pressure sensors etc...) A… Continue

Added by bGatti on April 26, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments


3D Robotics Perching UAV sticks to walls



[From BotJunkie]

Check out this awesome perching UAV, developed by Alexis Lussier…

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Added by Chris Anderson on April 26, 2010 at 11:37am — 7 Comments

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