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Research on New Generation of GPS Vulnerabilities Published
Added by Michael Pursifull on December 9, 2012 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments
HiLStar17 Public Release
Nothing is ever perfect. Or even as right as we might like. But I've been holding out on you, my friends, focused as I was until lately on moderating, I haven't been taking the final steps to share my code, photos and images of my aircraft, and other files I've been working on, such as this X-Plane model of an ArduPlane based on the…
ContinueAdded by Michael Pursifull on July 9, 2012 at 1:36am — 16 Comments
ArduSat: An Unmanned Falling Vehicle on which you might run code
Think you have challenges getting that sonar, airspeed sensor, or magnetometer to produce clean data in the harsh environment on your Skywalker, with ESCs, RF fields, 65mph winds, and multi-G impacts? Well, the guys over at NanoSatisfi are looking for a new level of pain, and have a …
Added by Michael Pursifull on June 16, 2012 at 6:00am — 8 Comments
New High Resolution Sonar Line from MaxBotix: HRLV
Our friends at MaxBotix have updated their offering of ultrasound sonar sensors by adding the new High Resolution LV line. The defining characteristic of this new line of sonars is the 1mm resolution. Yes. 1mm. Well, more correctly, "the HRLV-MaxSonar-EZ Sensors offer calibrated 1 mm accuracy…
ContinueAdded by Michael Pursifull on June 14, 2012 at 9:30pm — 17 Comments
Hydrogen-Powered Phantom Eye Takes Flight
Added by Michael Pursifull on June 4, 2012 at 6:30pm — 26 Comments
Winged Robot Providing Theories about the Origin of Flight
Photo Credit: Kevin Peterson/UC Berkeley
Science Magazine published an article suggesting that a project motivated by the recent DARPA push for small,…
ContinueAdded by Michael Pursifull on October 19, 2011 at 9:04am — 1 Comment
Google's Robotic Cars
IEEE has published an interesting overview about Google's self-driving cars.
The advances in this field should be of interest to our ArduRover community. The article mentions that…
ContinueAdded by Michael Pursifull on October 19, 2011 at 8:30am — 7 Comments
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) at Heathrow Airport - Driverless Personal Transport
BBC has a nice little video news story about the new computer-controlled passenger transport pods at Heathrow. It includes some nice shots of the video monitoring, computer map, and of the pods in use, and also includes a brief history of this form of transport, and a sound bite by a hopeful business owner about deploying this in…
Added by Michael Pursifull on October 19, 2011 at 7:23am — 3 Comments
(Getting Past) Coming Down with Something
In what we can only hope are unrelated news stories, Wired Magazine is reporting a virus infestation of Reaper and Predator ground control systems, and…
Added by Michael Pursifull on October 8, 2011 at 10:00am — 7 Comments
Build Quick Tip: 3DR Frame, Motor Mounting
With the Quad 3DR frame availability increasing, I wanted to take a moment to offer a "Build Quick Tip". Skip to the bottom of this post to get to the "quick" part of this tip.
The Backstory
The ArduCopter2 frame uses narrow aluminum arms, and so the design…
ContinueAdded by Michael Pursifull on September 26, 2011 at 5:09am — 10 Comments
LBNL research in Lithium Ion storage
Research published by the good doctors at LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) in Advanced…
ContinueAdded by Michael Pursifull on September 26, 2011 at 12:01am — 7 Comments
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- New High Resolution Sonar Line from MaxBotix: HRLV
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- Winged Robot Providing Theories about the Origin of Flight
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