Mark Harrison's Blog – July 2012 Archive (5)

Chris Anderson, Commercial Drone Disruptor!

Chris speaks DEFCON...

"The do-it-yourself (DIY), open-source drone movement is turning into a real business that could disrupt the commercial and military drone industry. It’s another case of how exploiting the curiosity of hackers can turn into a commercial opportunity.

"That’s the view of Chris Anderson (pictured), editor of Wired magazine and a drone…

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Added by Mark Harrison on July 28, 2012 at 12:52am — 20 Comments

Screen Capture of Developing Code for the APM Webinar #1, July 16, 2012

In case you weren't able to catch the webinar, here's a screen capture of the session.

I thought the webinar was great -- there were a few technical glitches, but the material was nicely organized and the participating developers did a great job of stepping through the code.  I enjoyed it and learned a lot. 

I thought I was capturing the session in super hi res mode, but apparently I suck at screen capture and the…

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Added by Mark Harrison on July 16, 2012 at 11:00pm — 4 Comments

Ardupilot Failsafe for Turnigy 9x / FrSky module

Somebody mentioned on a previous post that they would like to see some notes on this.  Here's mine!

Added by Mark Harrison on July 6, 2012 at 4:11pm — 8 Comments

APM2, $10 quad frame, 51 minutes to build and fly - detail videos and pictures are up!

Full Build video and detail photos now available.  Thanks for all the feedback so far!…

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Added by Mark Harrison on July 2, 2012 at 9:43pm — 6 Comments

APM2, $10 quad frame, 51 minutes to build and fly

As part of a friendly bet with Trappy on facebook, Andreas built and flew one of his signature wooden quads in under an hour.  A more detailed build video is being edited, but here's a timelapse of the process.

Added by Mark Harrison on July 1, 2012 at 9:21pm — 14 Comments

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