April 2010 Blog Posts (114)
My own DIY drone, complete with LabView 'Ground Station' Part 1b
Hey guys,
I have been wanting to fully document my SAGAR (Semi Autonomous GPS Assisted Rover) for some time now, and the 'ardupilot goes into the water' series has been so entertaining, it gave me the motivation to finally start. The first post was simply a demonstration of the LabView ground station, which has been redesigned one last time before my girlfriend is turning in the project. First I'll show the new interface, and talk about how it communicates with SAGAR, and give some…
Added by Bill Porter on April 19, 2010 at 8:30am — 3 Comments
Hobby King has a new Fiberglass Pan-Tilt Camera Mount for FPV
Specifications:
Added by CrashingDutchman on April 19, 2010 at 6:00am — 7 Comments
Moderator Navigation without GPS
Visual Localization System can be used to solve an outdoor localization
problem. The camera is mounted under the belly of an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV). The camera is used to search for visual landmarks on the
ground (a terrain matching based navigation)
Visual Localization System…
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Added by Hooks on April 19, 2010 at 5:18am — 7 Comments
UAVs Find Acceptance at Air Force Academy
Please check out this story on AOL News about the culture change going on at the Air Force Academy.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/unmanned-flight-brings-air-force-cadets-down-to-earth/19428947
Added by Andrea Stone on April 19, 2010 at 5:09am — No Comments
3D Robotics iPhone controller for RC planes
The creator explains: "No jailbreaking. No WiFi. Stock receivers. I fly model airplanes and helicopters with my iPhone. I use an off-the-shelf 2.4GHz module and a custom iPhone app. The app is now in beta testing.
I use the phone's headphone jack to communicate with the Spektrum module. I make no modifications to the module or the receivers. This application does not use WiFi, Internet, external servers or microcontrollers."
(via… Continue
Added by Chris Anderson on April 18, 2010 at 2:42pm — 11 Comments
3D Robotics Blimp driven by artificial muscles
Added by Chris Anderson on April 18, 2010 at 2:30pm — 8 Comments
ardupilot goes into the water Part 10
Added by Harald Molle on April 18, 2010 at 11:35am — 17 Comments
3D Robotics AVC Final Scores!
Congratulations to Antonio Lyska, the UAV winner of the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition! In his final run, he did a 26 second lap and then nailed an autonomous landing in the box for a 30…
ContinueAdded by Chris Anderson on April 17, 2010 at 4:00pm — 18 Comments
3D Robotics Pictures of all the AVC UAV competitors
Added by Chris Anderson on April 17, 2010 at 1:29pm — 5 Comments
3D Robotics AVC Round Two results
The rain has picked up, but we all got a good round two in. Here are the current standings, in order:
- The…
Added by Chris Anderson on April 17, 2010 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments
3D Robotics AVC Round One results
Added by Chris Anderson on April 17, 2010 at 11:17am — 4 Comments
Moderator Strong EPO Foam Skywalker UAV platform for sale
The new EPO foam version of the Skywalker UAV platform are now for sale.
Price 144 USD + 40 USD in shipping.…
ContinueAdded by Hooks on April 17, 2010 at 10:30am — 25 Comments
Sparkfun's AVC contest is today
Added by Patrick Mccabe on April 17, 2010 at 8:26am — No Comments
Moderator Skynavigator - Used for Flight Performance and GPS Triangle Racing
I stumbled upon this and thought others may think it's interesting as well...
Who knew the SP guys had competitions where they race around a triangle pattern of GPS coordinates? View results on Google Earth, get addional details from the plane to the ground station... Lots more.
Sounds fun…
ContinueAdded by Brian on April 16, 2010 at 9:00pm — 12 Comments
THIS WEEK IN AEROSPACE
DEATH OF A RADIO
Finally surrendered the ground station to tethering. It was a long battle with 72Mhz, 2.4Ghz XBees, & 900Mhz FSK but we never had enough money to make it reliable enough. Still using a custom transmitter with 8 channels. Went with a 2 conductor audio cable & 1/4" TRS connectors for the most reliable connection possible.
Nothing is more reliable than the 1/4" TRS connector,… Continue
Added by Jack Crossfire on April 16, 2010 at 12:04pm — 5 Comments
3D Robotics Report from FIRST Robotics aerial robotics planning meeting
We had a full house of university leaders yesterday at the FIRST Robotics Championship for our planning/brainstorming meeting on a potential indoors aerial robotics competition. We opened with…
ContinueAdded by Chris Anderson on April 16, 2010 at 7:00am — 7 Comments
My UAV equipment is on it's way and I can't thank DIY drones enough for the help and support
Added by Taylor Cox on April 16, 2010 at 3:00am — 4 Comments
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Added by Sarel P. Wagner on April 16, 2010 at 2:54am — 1 Comment
Moderator Robots without Borders
Added by Gary Mortimer on April 15, 2010 at 2:57pm — 3 Comments
First Flight with Ardupilot 2.6
I had a couple of very brief flights with my slightly modified ArduPilot 2.6 code this evening.
I only had the chance to do a couple of passes in fly by wire mode, but the initial results are promising.
Still some gain tuning to do, but this isn't bad for a first attempt.
In the plot below:
Blue line is bank angle
Red line is pitch
Green is heading.
Blue DOTS indicate times when the Ardupilot was in Fly By Wire…
ContinueAdded by Tom Hastie on April 14, 2010 at 7:52pm — 6 Comments
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