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Gender

Male


Location

Nantes, France


About Me:

traveller/photographer having a complicated relationship with his camera


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in developing areal photography/video skills, UAV beside being a fascinating project would be the perfect tool...


Hometown:

What's home?


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Alain replied to Alain's discussion Possibility of using EzUHF LRS for telemetry and RC control?
"I definitely will!! 
Alain"
Oct 6, 2014
Alain replied to Alain's discussion Possibility of using EzUHF LRS for telemetry and RC control?
"Hey there,
Sorry for this very late reply, I've been side-tracked on other things lately and at the end totally forgot to answer
@ Matthew  the setting I am using for now might sound overkill (on the RC side) but using 5.8GHz, we managed to transmit…"
Oct 6, 2014
Alain commented on Matthew Coleman's blog post raspiHUD - Ground based HUD without FPV
"Hi Matt,
Very nice and interesting project! Thanks for sharing it.
I wonder if it would be possible to build a Ground Control Station, something like the ardustation (https://code.google.com/p/ardu-station/), added with your HUD ?
I am thinking of…"
Aug 3, 2014
Alain commented on Nicolas's blog post DGAC "the french FAA" accepted the first APMcopter
"Hi Nicolas, from what you just explained to Tristan, it seems to be quite a headache (or fun, I don't know how much you like dealing with our administration ;-) ) to get this done. 
Thanks and congratulations for opening the path (next challenge…"
Apr 29, 2014
Alain commented on Nicolas's blog post DGAC "the french FAA" accepted the first APMcopter
"@ Gary, It seems that the firmware version is not an issue, as I know of another company here in France which were on the 2.6 version when started the certification process and by the time they received it it was the 2.9...
As long as there are no…"
Apr 29, 2014
Alain commented on Emlid's blog post NAVIO: Raspberry Pi autopilot
"Count me in as well, sounds a promising
all the best and keep up the good work
Alain"
Mar 30, 2014
Alain replied to Patrick Meier's discussion Humanitarian UAV Pilots Network
"You're very welcome, I need to take a bit of time going through your draft, and I'll come back to you
Alain"
Mar 12, 2014
Alain replied to Patrick Meier's discussion Humanitarian UAV Pilots Network
"Hey Patrick,
Very interesting project indeed, you should have a look here: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ they do disaster mapping and would be very interested in such project I believe.
I would be myself very interested to join, please let me know…"
Mar 12, 2014
Alain commented on Chris Anderson's blog post LIDAR-Lite, a cool $79 laser rangefinder for autolanding and terrain following, near crowdfunding target
"Backed! Thanks Chris for pointing out this project
@Dennis, almost there ;-) finger crossed for success in the funding (and the next steps in your campaign as well)
Regards
Alain"
Mar 12, 2014
Alain posted a discussion
Hello Everybody,I am using on my UAVs the following for transmissions (I'm based in Europe):RC Control: EzUHF (433MHz)Telemetry (APM<=>GCS): Xbee (2.4GHz)Video down link: ImmersionRC (5.8GHz)I am looking into ways of "simplifying" the system with…
Feb 12, 2014
Alain replied to Alain's discussion Problems with Flame Wheel 450 (ARF Kit) and APM1 on take off
"Hello,
I think I've solved the problem  (finger crossed). I reprogrammed the Castle Creation BEC to factory setting (5.1V) and now things seems to be working as they should...

Going for some more testing now
Regards
Alain"
Apr 5, 2013
Alain posted a discussion
Hello Everybody,I'm struggling with a problem that start to drive me crazy beside preventing me from attempting my first flight with my Flame Wheel 450.When I try to take-off, the Quad start drifting straight away to the right. And (I don't know if…
Mar 30, 2013
Alain commented on elad orbach's blog post How to DIY a ground station
"Hello everybody,

@ elad_o:congrats for your work, looks very promising and inspiring as well. Keep up posted please..

@ Hunter_Parris: What's the say in English? "Great spirits always met?"... To say that mini-ITX is the path I decided to follow a…"
Mar 12, 2013
Alain replied to Alain's discussion What sensors should I use for a ROV project
"Me again (sorry can't find the edit button for my post)
What's about using this: http://store.diydrones.com/ArduIMU_V3_p/kt-arduimu-30.htm
connected to the arduino mega?"
Nov 5, 2012
Alain posted a discussion
Hello Everybody,A friend of mine started a ROV project and asked me for help with the "brain" of the ROV.This ROV will be controlled using 2 joysticks and an Arduino UNO board at the surface.It will have a GUI displayed on a LCD screen, and we would…
Nov 5, 2012
Alain commented on Thomas Renaud's blog post Drones on the first french chanel
"The journalist at the end says (it's a rough translation, but here's the essence of what he says);
"The invasion from the drones already started, as soon as the last legal problem will be lifted, thousands of those little machines will be ready to…"
Jun 4, 2012
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