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Cupertino, CA


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Multi Channel ESC for Brushless Motors


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San Jose


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Al B commented on Abhinav Pandey's blog post CF flying wing
"@Abhinav Pandey, the Titan batteries are great for endurance flights. They give me the best performance on my flying wing."
Sep 2, 2018
Al B commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post Thermal Imaging for your Drone on a Budget
"@Patrick, In our case, we're constrained by cost, weight, and space so the small module works best for us; as shown here. And, the PX4 firmware already have a driver for it.

Without those constraints, then we probably had used/mounted the FLIR Vue…"
Aug 28, 2018
Al B commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post Thermal Imaging for your Drone on a Budget
"@Patrick, Instead of the usb adapter cable, can one use this board?
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14670"
Aug 27, 2018
Al B commented on Vertcnc's photo
"This thing never flew.  Just notice the tiny 6" prop in the rear."
May 27, 2018
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Instructions for a sub-$100 autonomous rover using computer vision
"If you want to try TensorFlow and cloud computing, then I suggest you buy an cheap Google Nexus smartphone with a bad ESN, but with the wifi and bluetooth still working. API for both are easily accessible via the Android SDK.  Also, you don’t have…"
Feb 3, 2017
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Volta extends from drones to autonomous cars
"I agree with Gary.  For less than $500, you can just build one using your smartphone.
https://youtu.be/ihmyHNJodvQ"
Jan 9, 2017
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New OpenMV computer vision board, with twice the power
"Hi Chris, you indicated that "OpenMV is your favorite computer vision processor" so I wonder how you have used it.  Do you use for precision landing with the PX4 firmware?  Or, do you use it for sense & avoidance or maybe SLAM? "
Jan 6, 2017
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Indoor drone localization with HTC Vive Lighthouse
"@Patrick, you are going need more than just your soldering iron.  You are also gonna need at least one base station. Although you get more accurate position with 2 stations."
Dec 5, 2016
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Precise indoor positioning with ultrawideband
"pozyx now seems to be a ponzi scheme ;-)"
Oct 21, 2016
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post NavStick FlytPod now on Indiegogo
"Can the vehicle with the FlytPOD still fly if the onboard Odroid crashes?"
Sep 20, 2016
Al B replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"I struggled for days trying to setup the OpticalFlow with APM Flight Stack. Never worked. If you are using Pixhawk, then I suggest you switched the PX4 Flight Stack since it works flawless. See test video here: https://youtu.be/G7fGC4OmxO0…"
Aug 17, 2016
Al B replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"With Copter-3.3 or 3.4-dev?"
Apr 27, 2016
Al B replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"Philip, Did you mean "px4flow-klt-06Dec2014" ?"
Apr 27, 2016
Al B replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"Randy,
Is the old firmware (px4flow-klt-06Dec2014) still the correct one to use with the latest APM flight stack (e.g. Copter-3.3 or 3.4-dev) or should we use the newest firmware version from the PX4 repo?
Old one:…"
Apr 26, 2016
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New Volta companion computer for Pixhawk brings computer vision, more
"@Bill Bonney

Wow Bill, thanks for that information.  FlytOS has a nice documentation. I agree, it's a neat solution.
I guess I'm gonna use the $300 ODROID that I got from Silvio with the FlytOS.  Thanks again Bill!"
Apr 16, 2016
Al B commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New Volta companion computer for Pixhawk brings computer vision, more
"@Silvio
Your last post doesn't answer my questions though. i.e.:
How does Volta suggest to handle roaming onto another network or if there is not sufficient network coverage?
Can you provide with a link to the online documentation for the 4Gmetry…"
Apr 16, 2016
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