About

Gender

Male


Location

College Station, TX


About Me:

I am a graduate student in aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I design, build, and operate fixed-wing UAVs for the TAMU aerospace engineering department. I also write software and firmware to support the aircraft as well as other miscellaneous research projects.


Hometown:

Austin, Texas


Activity Feed

Andrew Beckett replied to Strike Eagle III's discussion Autopilot Comparison in ArduPlane User Group
"Howdy Jason,
The best place to look for system configuration information is in the APM source code. The configuration register settings for the MPU6000 are in the AP_InertialSensor_MPU6000 class; if you cross-reference the register settings with the…"
Aug 7, 2012
Andrew Beckett posted a discussion in ArduPlane User Group
I realize this is a little late, but why was the hardware MUX fail-safe removed going from APM1 to APM2?
Jul 12, 2012
Andrew Beckett commented on Paul's blog post Raspberry Pi Computer To Cross The Atlantic Ocean In Autonomous Boat
"I want a 130W solar panel that can fit on the hull pictured above."
Jun 27, 2012
Andrew Beckett commented on Ruwan's blog post FAA Reveals List of Colleges and Police Departments That Can Fly Drones
"@Justin Stiltner, same here. We were in the middle of a flight test project when these rules were first issued. The project was delayed over a year for the application process! We can only fly over our private airport (83TX).

@Cliff-E, which…"
May 1, 2012
Andrew Beckett posted a discussion
Howdy DIYDrones. I'm presently working on a university research project with a few other students integrating a PixArt IR sensor from a Nintendo Wiimote with ArduPlane. I'm using version 2.24 of the codebase but will likely be porting it forward in…
Dec 22, 2011
Andrew Beckett commented on Eric's blog post Humidity sensor SHT2x for ArduPilotMega
"I got it, thank you!"
Oct 21, 2011
Andrew Beckett commented on Eric's blog post Humidity sensor SHT2x for ArduPilotMega
"I'm interested in seeing the code. Do you have another web host you can use?"
Oct 19, 2011
Andrew Beckett commented on Eric's blog post Humidity sensor SHT2x for ArduPilotMega
"Download link is broken."
Oct 19, 2011