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Moderator This $10 Airhogs Titan chuck glider conversion caught my eye.

We don't have those airframes in the UK, but looks like a useful thing to mod, especially at the price.



Titan Maiden flight from Billwhit on Vimeo.



Very short discription of the build at RCG…



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Added by Gary Mortimer on May 10, 2010 at 2:58am — 2 Comments


3D Robotics T3--Round 7: Autonomous takeoff and landing!



Inspired by the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition, where massive points were given for autonomous takeoff and landing, we're going to do something like that here for round 7. So here's the DIY Drones T3 Total…

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Added by Chris Anderson on May 9, 2010 at 10:00pm — 85 Comments

No live podcast because it was recorded in person earlier today at MIT

This week's guest is Missy Cummings, the director of MIT's Humans and Automation Lab and one of the first female navy fighter pilots.

I've already edited and prepared the podcast but my internet isn't fast enough to upload it. Tomorrow I'll be able to upload it (probably well before the evening).

Added by Tim Trueman on May 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Update on Flex Circuits

To better show the potential of (DIY) flexcircuits, here is a board that includes the wiring bit and board to board connection. There are 14 connections to the mother board (8 in use).…















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Added by bGatti on May 8, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments


3D Robotics Predator plans (make one out of bluecore foam)



Very nice plans to make a smallish Predator out of bluecore foam. Too small for a decent UAV (and as we've said here many times, Predators are not the best flyers, being both short-coupled and prone…

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Added by Chris Anderson on May 8, 2010 at 12:30pm — 18 Comments

ardupilot goes into the water Part 12

What a week!
Rain, Rain, Rain and sometimes... Rain.
Not a good week for a launch.…




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Added by Harald Molle on May 8, 2010 at 10:00am — 12 Comments

The Rise of The Geek Dad

Under this title there is an article in the Weekend section of The Times (UK) newspaper today with a quarter page picture of Chris Anderson and Daniel.

Well done Chris!

Peter


Added by Peter Seddon on May 8, 2010 at 5:22am — 9 Comments


Moderator Really interesting Killer Bee vid from Engineering TV


http://engineeringtv.com/video/KillerBee-UAV

Added by Gary Mortimer on May 7, 2010 at 11:41pm — 13 Comments

Nothing's flying



So tweeked the nacelle angle to compensate for wind. GPS was only giving 0-2Hz. After autopilot took off & tried to turn her unsuccessfully, switched to manual. A gust of wind combined with the tweeked nacelle angle probably flipped her over. That was the end of Vika 1's 2nd fuselage & 3rd camera. $100 + $150 tax by our calculations.









You can see the tweeked nacelle angle in that 1.…



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Added by Jack Crossfire on May 7, 2010 at 11:00am — 5 Comments

AW900MSPI-10 - 900MHz long-range RF Module from AvaLAN



  • 50 x 50 x 7 mm, 10 grams
  • RPSMA for antenna, 17 PC edge connections for power and data
  • 0.75 Watts transmit, 0.5 Watts receive, 3.3 VDC
  • Synchronous high speed SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface)
  • UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) to 115.2 kilobaud
  • SPI or UART interface chosen by firmware
Manual:… Continue

Added by Arash Joorabchi on May 7, 2010 at 4:35am — 13 Comments

Self-Stabilizing Servo

Speaking of servos (the topic of my prior post), the GS-1 gyro server self-stabilizes (in one axis only)...







I'm curious... has anyone used a pair of these to construct a self-stabilizing pan/tilt gimbal for their aerial shots (plane or copter)? It would certainly make for less parts and wiring, being that servos will still be required to do the job (so why not cram the gyro in the servo… Continue

Added by Lew Payne on May 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

Servo Conversion - I2C Control





In various groups and blogs I peruse on here, there's been talk about I2C control of servos (as opposed to standard PWM). This certainly solves several problems, as it allows one I/O port (I2C) to service over a hundred servos with ease. With some built-in intelligence, the servo itself can… Continue

Added by Lew Payne on May 6, 2010 at 12:30pm — 15 Comments


3D Robotics uBlox GS-407 Antenna Problems.. (Solution)



A few batches of the GS407 (uBlox) modules came defective. This problem includes units sold by SparkFun and DIYDrones Store ... The problem seems to be around the antenna solder joins, they are weak and break easily, so any little crash may break it. You can try to solder them by removing the hard… Continue

Added by Jordi Muñoz on May 6, 2010 at 12:30pm — 23 Comments


Moderator OpenPilot store open



I see that the chaps down under, where woman blow and men chunder, have opened their store.



The first product I see of interest is the GPS which can be used with Ardupilot…



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Added by Gary Mortimer on May 6, 2010 at 7:48am — 15 Comments


3D Robotics New sensors in the DIY Drones store

Over the past few months, Jordi has added a bunch of new sensors in the DIY Drones store, which can be used with ArduIMU+ or ArduPilotMega. Here are the latest ones:…


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Added by Chris Anderson on May 6, 2010 at 7:00am — 6 Comments


3D Robotics Roboseed (autonomous monocopter)



For Jack Crossfire, who is no doubt way beyond this. It was new to me,… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on May 4, 2010 at 10:50pm — 5 Comments

SparkFun's official AVC video

18 teams competed and only 8 crossed the finish line



SparkFun's 2010 Autonomous Vehicle Competition from SparkFun on…

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Added by Tim Trueman on May 4, 2010 at 3:12pm — 4 Comments


Moderator Is this Ardupilot inside this frame?

This picture got me thinking that Ardupilot is inside this Airframe?…

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Added by Hooks on May 4, 2010 at 2:25pm — 24 Comments

Why Freescale's $2 JM16 might be better than atmel's $10 chip set (+FTDI)



vs.







Just reviewing… Continue

Added by bGatti on May 4, 2010 at 1:30pm — 38 Comments

Podcast episode 22: more guests than you can shake an IMU at!



Photo: Chris talking to Pete Hollands at SparkFun


I'm sorry for the delay, this episode was recorded by Chris' phone and my laptop and the background noise required a lot more edits than usual. Jack Crossfire will be pleased to note that I found the source of the reverb and confined it to a theoretical vacuum. Of course the background noise probably didn't help (it's better at the end) but the…
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Added by Tim Trueman on May 3, 2010 at 10:00pm — 7 Comments

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