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About Me:

I'm CEO of 3DR and founder of DIY Drones as well as DIY Robocars. I'm the former Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, author of The Long Tail (Hyperion, 2006), FREE (Hyperion, 2009) and Makers (Crown, 2012) and founder of GeekDad.com You can find more about me at my About.me page here.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Fixed wing and quads. Mostly for fun and development. With kids as often as they allow!


Hometown:

Berkeley, California


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Chris Anderson replied to Frank McGuire's discussion Hobbies?
"3D printing and/or RC planes"
Sep 15
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Chris Anderson replied to Eric Zhao's discussion How Can eFPGA Enhance Drone Capabilities?
"The only place I've seen them used effectively with drones is in exotic radios. Otherwise too expensive and complex to replace standard microprocessor architectures"
Jul 25
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Chris Anderson liked Benewake LiDAR's blog post Application of TFmini-S in PixHawk
Jul 5
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Chris Anderson liked madflight's discussion madflight v1.1.1 released
May 19
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Chris Anderson liked madflight's discussion madflight - DIY Flight Controller RP2040 / ESP32 / STM32
Jan 30
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Chris Anderson commented on RICK lu's blog post Whose DIY drone is this? It's so cool！This is DJI？
"Wow. I haven't seen that one before. What part of the world was this in? It looks a little bit like the south side of Hong Kong?"
Nov 25, 2023
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Chris Anderson replied to Dominic Romun's discussion GNSS RTK (precision farming)
"You'd be better off starting with the Sparkfun line. Well documented and good example code.
https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=RTK"
Aug 14, 2023
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Chris Anderson liked andre van calster's blog post DIY tracking drone
Aug 13, 2023
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Chris Anderson replied to Halil İbrahim's discussion Engine Speed Problem
"Did you calibrate your ESCs?"
Jul 12, 2023
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Chris Anderson liked Zara Mae Pickering's profile
May 21, 2023
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Chris Anderson liked Benewake LiDAR's blog post Application of TF02-Pro IIC in PixHawk (ArduPilot Firmware)
Feb 12, 2023
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Chris Anderson commented on Tuğçe Karaman's blog post Talon XUAV Angle of Attack
"Actually, it's calculated for you and is available as a MAVlink message: https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/logmessages.html"
Feb 26, 2022
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Chris Anderson commented on Tuğçe Karaman's blog post Talon XUAV Angle of Attack
"You need to add an AoA sensor."
Feb 23, 2022
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Chris Anderson liked Saulius L.'s blog post Custom Raspberry Pi HQ camera gets 40x optical zoom lens
Jan 24, 2022
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Chris Anderson posted a blog post
Making a custom drone navigating without GPS
From DroneDJ:
Nicholas Rehm may be a full-time aerospace engineer, but his success in constructing a DIY self-flying drone that avoids obstacles without standard GPS tech aboard still merits a standing-O. He also gets a deep bow for describing the…
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Nov 4, 2021
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Chris Anderson posted a blog post
Simple transitioning quadcopter VTOL tailsitter
From Hackaday. You can 3D-print this quad or buy the parts. It uses modified Betaflight firmware:
Quadcopters are great for maneuverability and slow, stable flight, but it comes at the cost of efficiency. [Peter Ryseck]’s Mini QBIT quadrotor…
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Aug 2, 2021
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