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Alasdair Allan commented on Chris Anderson's blog post A small fleet of BlimpDuinos going out to the beta testers
"What sort of volume order would you need to be looking to do a bulk discounts?"
Dec 8, 2008
Alasdair Allan replied to Kevin L.'s discussion Strobe Light for UAVs
"You might want to look at emergency strobes lights designed for scuba diving. They're compact, low voltage, and most models don't weigh that much..."
Aug 20, 2008
Alasdair Allan commented on Zak's blog post The CHAOS of AI
"What your describing is called 'partial plan' autonomy, and yes, outside the lab where we're building systems to interact with the real world this is pretty much state of the art for systems that actually have to work autonomously, first time and…"
Aug 2, 2008
Alasdair Allan commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Autonomous blimp ("BlimpDuino") demo
"I'm guessing you're using the high lift envelope from rctoys.com? Or are you finding there is enough lift from the standard envelope?"
Apr 28, 2008
Alasdair Allan replied to Peter Klemperer's discussion Blimp Gondola Sources
"The only blimp Plantraco currently sell is the MicroBlimp

http://www.microflight.com/Online-Catalog/R-C-Toys/MicroBlimp-RTF-Set

which is a lot smaller than their Tri-Turbo Fan model used to be, so my guess is that their current design just won't…"
Apr 27, 2008
Alasdair Allan replied to Simon Pan's discussion AUV project brainstorming
"You might want to look at these guys (http://www.dailyack.com/2005/08/autonomous-underwater-vehicles.html), and this homebrew ROV (http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31609) for ideas.

The deployable surface pod idea, pretty reasonable,…"
Apr 5, 2008
Alasdair Allan commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New double-sided BlimpBot board!
"So they are, oops!"
Mar 30, 2008
Alasdair Allan commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New double-sided BlimpBot board!
"Oh that's good! A GND and +5V pin would be nice too...? ;)"
Mar 30, 2008
Alasdair Allan commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New double-sided BlimpBot board!
"Neat project, very impressed. It's basically an Arduino at heart, so maybe you should retain some easy access to the spare CPU pins? It looks like you're not using pins 23-28 on the CPU for anything (at the moment?). Perhaps you could expose those…"
Mar 30, 2008
Alasdair Allan commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Blimp UAV update: Minimum and Maximum versions
"Does anyone know where I can pick up an equivalent to BPHobbies MOT-N20ULV motor here in the UK? It looks like they don't ship overseas...?"
Mar 19, 2008