Gender
Male
About
Location
Canberra, ACT
About Me:
Geophysicist working for oil and gas exploration.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Developing a UAV platform for airborne geophysics. The platform is currently in the R&D phase.
Hometown:
Canberra
Activity Feed
"Wow, what a great story. So you found the WWII bomber on your first line of first flight? You must have been jumping for joy. I'm a geophysicist and would love to know what GPR unit you used, can you please post a link, thanks."
"What will the Talon do when a manned helicopter doing mustering is in the flight path of the Talon over the horizon?"
"Thats a really good development. The release mechanism looks quite simple, could you elaborate on how it works? Are you using an ardupilot autopilot? Any problems so far with parachute landings? "
"If you have over 300 employees, you have the capability to develop and market products like the Solo as well as continuing to produce and deliver all DIY Hobby hardware. Its unbelievable that you would say, the RC hobby market is too small, our…"
"I was thinking if it could be possible on a satellite modem bandwidth, that way it would work anywhere in the world, regardless of whether there's a phone tower or not."
"This is a great idea if it can be done safely. Also remote sites where we fly our UAV's often have poor internet connections, if the data transfer rate is minimised it would be effective over more regions of the world."
"If a company is going to develop a higher voltage hardware version, may as well go to 8S as there are a few (namely my plane) that operate 8S for the increased efficiency."
"I haven't fully tested the flight time because it gets boring once the plane has been up in the air for an hour. From memory, I was using 4500mah from a 6S in about 50 minutes of flight (It had a camera on board though). The Anaconda is a test…"
"A lower frequency laser at about 532nm will penetrate the water surface. So look for a lidar system that is a lower frequency than the standard 905nm.
I don't know if there's one available commercially for UAV's but that's what you'd use from a…"
I don't know if there's one available commercially for UAV's but that's what you'd use from a…"
"I definitely wouldn't be hand launching it. Its really made to glide efficiently, its not too reactive at all."
"Would we have the pixracer today if 3dr didn't open source the pixhawk hardware? Perhaps it would have cost AUAV a lot more money to develop it without the pixhawk schematics and they wouldn't have bothered.
Open sourcing has its negatives, but it…"
Open sourcing has its negatives, but it…"
"Great work Martin, thats amazing endurance, any longer and you'll have to work out how to cope with varying temperature changes expanding or contracting the helium. The airships too small to have an internal ballonet."
"Another problem is hang gliders, sky divers etc, it'll be quite a while until everyone is carrying an ADS-B."
"@Maxime C Do you use a pixhawk to get the 6 airspeed readings? If so how do you do it, I'd just like to have a redundant air speed sensor, but from my limited knowledge it seems this can't be done through I2C, it would need to be through canbus."
"I forgot to say, congratulations Martin, your two years of work appears to have paid off."
"Hydrogen only gives you about 4% more lift, its main benefit is its abundance and is therefore cheaper, but then when you add the cost of all of the safety equipment you need to refill the hydrogen you may as well go helium. An airship as small as…"
