Distributor Comment by UnmannedTechShop.co.uk on December 4, 2011 at 5:50am

Looks like fun, and thanks for sharing the video and pics, is there any corner of the world that arducopter has not seen?

Developer Comment by Randy on December 4, 2011 at 6:26am

Hattori-san,

     Thanks a lot for coming up with the idea to attend Make Faire Tokyo and for taking me along to the event!  We certainly raised awareness of arducopter in Tokyo and met some other people doing interesting things.

     First day rained so we couldn't do any demonstrations but today was pretty good (although strong wind) so we flew the quad a number of times.  I'll bet it appears in Make Japan next month.  One of my favourite parts was hearing the rapid fire shutters noises as the quad flew past the reporters.

-Randy

Developer Comment by Randy on December 4, 2011 at 6:44am

Hattori-san explaning diydrones.  This was a quiet period in which I had a chance to take a picture.

Comment by Anish on December 4, 2011 at 9:04am

@randy looks like u had more attention than our London meetups. I would have thought uptake would higher given the existence of robotics industry (along with quite a bit of expertise in electronics and miniature manufacturing)
Looks like u have done an awesome job congrats :)

Comment by Jack Crossfire on December 4, 2011 at 5:52pm

That looks like Chris with glasses.

Developer Comment by Randy on December 4, 2011 at 8:11pm

@Jack,

     ..I don't even need those glasses, that just so people don't get confused when Chris and I hang out together.  :-).  Actually I've never met Chris but hope to at the Sparkfun AVC in April if my helicopter (inspired by you by the way!) is up for the task...which it certainly should be.

@Anish,

     There is some advanced robotics going on here but perhaps people focus more on walking robots.  Maybe it's related to problems finding a good place to fly. 

 

Some of the other interesting things we found were:

• a guy who's company was working on making small, cheap optical flow sensors for use in bank machines.  He wanted to put them on a small flying robot.
• a large group of people flying those tiny 5g~30g airplanes using a wifi link.  No IMU (yet!).
• a guy carrying around a huge gamma ray spectrometer and looking for a gas powered quad that flies over 1 hour at a height of 5m to scan for radiation in fukushima (the site of the nuclear accident).
• lots of other good stuff.

Comment by Jiro Hattori on December 5, 2011 at 5:25am

@Randy

Thank you for two days show and excellent demonstration flight and good discussion.

*I found that my quad is too heavy. Need diet.

*Will try simulator to gain skills to fly quad.

Hope to see you soon.

 

Comment by Anish on December 5, 2011 at 11:45am

@randy true :) may be we need to convince more to join. Btw really liked the gamma ray spectrometer idea :)

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