I've been thinking about a blimp experiment and wondered whether anyone could make a recommendation ?The Plantraco Micro Blimp is reported to be neutrally bouyant with 188gm load - see http://www.coe.drexel.edu/ret/personalsites/2004/roodojalvos/web/
Read more…http://www.centeye.com/Guys, check out this site, they are doing some very interesting things. They have a chip that mimics the vision of insects using optical flow. This is mounted in a free flight model plane and keeps it from flying into obstacles
Read more…heres my twin boom pusher i have been working on. its almost done im just waiting on a crystal and new motor mount. in the first version it had a 3s 4200mah lipo and flew 30+ min flights with plenty of power.this is allot more streamline and lighter
Read more…As part of my PhD, I'm trying to design and build a UAV. But the UAV needs to a bit durable than your average RC aircraft. Therefore I was thinking about building one from composite materials, Fibreglass, Carbon Fibre, etc. Does anyone have any exper
Read more…I found this link...looks cool and has free software for designing PCB boards.Price is reasonable as well!Express PCB
Read more…We are interested in reading the number of microseconds that a digital pin is set to HIGH. Wiring natively lacks a micros() function to tell us this so we need to write an accurate one.This is the actual implementation of millis() in wiring.c for the
Read more…Hey everyone! I thank you for taking time out of your busy flight day to help get me going to converting my Sig Cadet Sr. to a UAV!Currently the RC has a JR 600 Receiver, Os 52 4stroke (a bit on the under powered side) and a with with ailerons. This
Read more…Hello, I am working on building a UAV fo my master's thesis. I bought a Parkzone Slo-V 3 channel plane to hone my mad flyin skillz. So far I am accomplished at quickly ending my flights by smacking the plane into the ground. I will keep working on th
Read more…Thought this was pretty neat -- I always wanted a paddle-plane...UAV potential here for sure:A small robotic aircraft powered by rotating "paddle-wheel" wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit.Several inte
Read more…Hey everyone!I've been lurking for a while now, and I'm finally taking the plunge. However I'm coming at this from the wrong angle - programming/electronics experience with no flight experience at all :/There's a local flying club which I'm going to
Read more…Alright, so my Futaba 6EXAP Tx/Rx just came in the mail, and I have NO idea how to set it up. I don't even know how to connect the battery. The "instruction manual" is absolutely no help. It just tells me how to charge the battery and program it.Coul
Read more…Hi guys,I'm an MBA student doing a innovations project on DIY Drones. The question is, being an entrepreneur, what are the possible commercial applications of these Drones/UAV's?A replacement for fire control helicopters / search and rescue? replacem
Read more…I ordered a battery to run two 6-volt DC motors with the parallax HB-25.The problem is, the battery connectors come in this plastic case in which I can't solder.
I was wondering if anyone has built a drone with a realtime video downlink. I have seen many here with photos and video taken onboard but none that are fed live down to the ground. What would it take to do this? I am curious because I would like to b
Read more…This was my dream to fly UAV's since my childhood. I used to envisage myself flying those marvelous miniature aircraft's. Now I am 29 , wanna make my dreams a reality. SO can anyone please give me some leads and how to begin ? The basics, where to bu
Read more…How come in the following PUB module that I am executing via a separate COG, The Rx Inputs that I am receiving for channels 1-4 and 6 stop when I flip the gear switch (channel 5) ?repeatstackRxPass1 := bs2.Pulsin(RxInput1, 1)stackRxPass2 := bs2.PULSI
Read more…Guys, I have a Picopilot NAT and am trying to get it to work with Windows Vista and my HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop. The laptop doesn't have a serial connector, so I am using a USB-to-RS232 serial adapter with a Null Modem adapter, but despite every pos
Read more…Was very disappointed by this nugget http://diydrones.com/forum/topic/show?id=705844%3ATopic%3A25130which killed our hopes for EasyStar ecstacy. So many junk parts are emerging from Vicacopter that a throwaway UAV based on the EasyStar & GPS was a go
Read more…Hi Chris,I have been looking at your basic stamp code and I think it is all starting to make sense to me finally! I have a question relation to the altitude control, I understand that if the UAV is + or - 10 Meters away from starting altitude it will
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