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Lower Mainland, BC
About Me:
Stay-at-home Dad, recently getting into RC and UA/GV's
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Understanding the power is the first step in controlling it. Frankly I find the whole thing fascinating, and can't get it out of my head. Never having played with RC, only toys, the ideas this is sprouting in my brain are overwhelming! An RC "thing" with a brain... Most interested in starting with a UGV, adding a brain to my crawler. ;) I have the crawler already, and I figure stuff can't fall from the ground. Also like the idea of spherical robots like Greg Schroll's Gyrosphere [ http://telovation.com/articles/ball-robot.html ]. Would very much like to figure something like that out. The planes and helis are also very cool, but I have zero experience with them other than some toy indoor helicopters, so there is rather a lot of learning curve there. Would also very much like to learn general fabrication techniques, like carbon fibre/fibreglass, metal working and other DIY stuff. I have some soldering experience and some woodworking experience and am generally handy, but am looking into more 'professional' upgrading of some of my skills.
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"Do you know of any other "portable" mission planners? Or potentially-portable, like Raspberry-Pi/Beagleboard ports? Even IOS versions?
Thanks!"
Thanks!"
"I haven't yet added the rover brain to my truck, but I'm wondering if the code could handle a couple of interesting features:
1) front and rear wheel steering, in case extra-tight turns or crab-walking is necessary for manoeuvres,
2) DIG (mostly…"
1) front and rear wheel steering, in case extra-tight turns or crab-walking is necessary for manoeuvres,
2) DIG (mostly…"
I'm attempting a few projects, including my rover, that will require cellphone voice access via computer audio. I know the DroneCell exists for everyone who's not on an AT&T/Bell/Telus style network, but for those of us who are stuck on UMTS/HSPA…
"Hello, sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm wondering if there's a more UMTS/HSPA compatible device? I'm actually looking for the cellphone voice/sms/data 'thing' for at least 3 projects, but can't find any suitable for most Canadian carries…"
"Damn, you're right my math was off, sorry, I meant 20S max! (Ebike is running 2 '36v' 9Ah packs together)"
"My newbieness continues to show itself in glorious new ways.
Thanks for the info, Bill! Altho I've seen that sparkfun one and it's 52V only. I'll have to use that one for the Raspberry Pi Project (tm)."
Thanks for the info, Bill! Altho I've seen that sparkfun one and it's 52V only. I'll have to use that one for the Raspberry Pi Project (tm)."
"Any of these have higher voltage? I'm thinking about an e-bike project, but I run 10S Lipo & can't find one that can measure that high."
"Robots bring beer!? Robots Good!
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"Very cool idea! If the animals get acclimated perhaps adding something like a water gun or decomposable air-soft projectile?
@Brian: I hesitate to say, but are you going to name your FidoRover K-9?"
@Brian: I hesitate to say, but are you going to name your FidoRover K-9?"
"First thing I thought of was:
Blindly beam a laser into the sky at "gps coordinates", what can go wrong!
Seems like a cool project tho!"
Blindly beam a laser into the sky at "gps coordinates", what can go wrong!
Seems like a cool project tho!"
I was wondering if there were any ideas for waterproofing the gps module w/o interfering with it's operation? I'm also wondering about protecting it from impacts while still having it in a useful position.I'm building a rover, and I'm thinking the…
"Clicking on the missing images shows what the problem is, this page is generating too much DL traffic, and so sharing of those images has been (presumably temporarily) disabled. Maybe moving the pictures to photobucket or something would keep them…"
"Whether or not I use GPS for following, for my use I'm pretty sure already that I'll need sonar/visual avoidance code as well as some that uses the accelerometers to determine if I'm hung up on branches outside of 'visual range'. It's just too…"
"Thanks very much Bob, I knew I'd seen it in arducopter somewhere! And GPS-based, that's interesting, I think the others are almost all visual with some sort of high-contrast code.
GPS could complicate the in-field use, you'd need a small on-person…"
GPS could complicate the in-field use, you'd need a small on-person…"
"There seems to be some work with the AR.Drone on this, I'm not sure if that's where I had first seen demonstrations of follow-mode or not. They apparently follow balls and things as part of their games, and the SDK seems to allow access to it.
Some…"
Some…"
"Sorry, I also meant to say that by the end of the fullest bucket (I'd estimate it was 3-4lbs of berries), it was riding quite low but still managed to climb over all the curbs and uneven terrain. For any more weight you'd definitely want to stiffen…"
