Gender
Male
About
About Me:
I'm a 3rd year Robotics Student in Bristol working for my final project over 2 years, as well as hobby-based projects in my spare time
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I am interested in building a UAV control system for my final project, along with a few friends studying Aeronautical Engineering
Hometown:
Bristol
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"*UPDATE* Revisited the IMU and invested in the correct GPS unit for it. Gonna try it tonight and hopefully it'll work, but I managed to read up that a lot of people have had this problem due to heading drift and air start problems. So I should be…"
"Are they the standard ESC's that come with the Discovery kit? Or did you get different ones?"
I've just got the ArduIMU V3 and have been fighting with it most of the evening - eventually I have ended up using the 1.9.6 version of the ArduIMU arduino program with the ArduIMU Test The IMU recognizes all the movement I apply to it correctly,…
"Ah yes I see it now - looks promising. Well you have my money in the kickstarter so hope it helps!"
"What kind of power consumption will it have while active?"
"That design looks awesome dude - I've thrown $45 at it so far! Also, how heavy is the magnet assembly itself going to be out of interest?"
"They are using UAV's to combat Tree Rot up in Scotland as well:
http://mensuro-aero.com/uav-vs-tree-diseases-in-woodland-management/"
http://mensuro-aero.com/uav-vs-tree-diseases-in-woodland-management/"
"I definitely would be interested in helping if the help is appreciated (I'm all the way in England atm but I'm sure I could help out somehow). Another thought you may or may not have had for cheap parts for the casing is vaccuum forming, but I'm not…"
"I was considering doing something along these lines, with a modular Hexacopter using an almost identical bodyframe (had never seen your work before this though) but looks like you beat me to it :P looks nice though, how much lift can you get from it…"
"Oh man that looks so beautiful. How much does that wrap cost and how much of it can you buy it in? Thinking I might want to use it for a drone I'm building at the moment..."
