USAV is the Unmanned Social Arial Vehicle - A drone with an android based auto pilot system that communicates through Google talk and Twitter. Due to the weather and the fact that an H-frame is being built for the vehicle, no flying is possible here. But I'm making good use of the wait :)

So snow is still falling here in the north and it's not really flying weather.

So I decided to make good of the waiting and create a telemetry unit for the USAV.

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Here's an update on the USAV project I started some months back. This post is mostly about the architecture and features of the current version as well as a video of a static test.

The USAV is a UAV with an integration to some of the social networks like twitter and Google talk. It is also an…

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Free Webinar: Developing code for the APM

On Monday July 16th 2012, at 5pm Pacific Time,I will be hosting a 90min webinar on Developing for the…

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BoardX is a collection of electronic circuit boards from Upgrade Industries that stack on top of one another to share resources, communicate, and extend the…

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I have knocked up a quick little labVIEW app to do the following things: 

• Acquire images from a Axis 207MW IP camera (wireless).
• Snap photos and save them to file with a meaningful name.
• Option to automatically save each frame as a .jpg (to create mosaics).
• Record .AVI files…

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Two friends and I created the game of Pac-Man using iRobot Roombas to showcase our Networked Unmanned Aircraft System Software. The project website contains videos, explanations, and all of the code we used:

http://pacman.elstonj.com