Chris Anderson's Blog – April 2010 Archive (37)
Some juicy details in article about Insitu, ScanEagle and founder rivalries
Added by Chris Anderson on April 30, 2010 at 11:00pm — 14 Comments
Skywalker: Best UAV platform ever? (I'm in love)
Added by Chris Anderson on April 28, 2010 at 8:00pm — 160 Comments
ArduPilot Mega Now Available!
Added by Chris Anderson on April 28, 2010 at 1:00pm — 44 Comments
9,000 members!
We hit 9,000 members today, on the same growth trend as we've seen so far this year (adding 1,000 members every two months--we hit…
ContinueAdded by Chris Anderson on April 27, 2010 at 9:00am — 10 Comments
What our cousins in rocketry are doing
Added by Chris Anderson on April 27, 2010 at 12:22am — 11 Comments
Perching UAV sticks to walls
Added by Chris Anderson on April 26, 2010 at 11:37am — 7 Comments
Tutorial: Connecting other GPS modules to ArduPilot
Although we recommend the uBlox GPS module and adapter we sell in the DIY Drones store, which is solid and easy to set up, ArduPilot can support any GPS module in NMEA… Continue
Added by Chris Anderson on April 25, 2010 at 10:30pm — 14 Comments
Gorgeous Blimpduino build log
IKE is doing an awesome job of documenting his Blimpduino build. Excellent write-up and stunning photographs.…
ContinueAdded by Chris Anderson on April 23, 2010 at 11:41am — 3 Comments
Arduino cheat sheet
Can't remember where to find those Arduino pin mappings? Forgot your FTDI wire meanings? You need this handy cheat sheet, which has all the most commonly needed info in one easy-to-print form. Pin it up your workshop wall!…
ContinueAdded by Chris Anderson on April 23, 2010 at 10:46am — 1 Comment
xkcd is especially good today
Added by Chris Anderson on April 21, 2010 at 12:00pm — 19 Comments
Sparkfun wrap-up of AVC competition
Added by Chris Anderson on April 20, 2010 at 4:32pm — 1 Comment
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
Blimp driven by artificial muscles
Added by Chris Anderson on April 18, 2010 at 2:30pm — 8 Comments
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
Pictures of all the AVC UAV competitors
Added by Chris Anderson on April 17, 2010 at 1:29pm — 5 Comments
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
AVC Round One results
Added by Chris Anderson on April 17, 2010 at 11:17am — 4 Comments
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
FireScout scores first drug bust
From BotJunkie: "Last week, one of the Fire Scouts currently undergoing testing aboard the USS McInerney managed a real drug bust after noticing what… Continue
Added by Chris Anderson on April 14, 2010 at 12:41pm — 13 Comments
NASA's Global Hawk now operational
Added by Chris Anderson on April 14, 2010 at 5:06am — 10 Comments
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