About

Gender

Male


Location

Sydney, NSW


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Quads, planes, long-time RC interest, aerial photography. Started a little sideline UAV businesses in 2013 (www.skymount.com), now back home and doing it commercially with Australian UAV (www.auav.com.au)


Hometown:

Sydney, Australia


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Andrew Chapman commented on earthpatrol's blog post AscTec Leading the Way
"Has anyone seen an Octa-V frame for sale? 
I've seen a few home-built frames, but none in production."
Sep 6, 2015
Andrew Chapman replied to Andrew Chapman's discussion Any UAV businesses or research in Sydney? in Australia
"A couple of years later, but looping back on this to say I've joined Australian UAV (www.auav.com.au) to expand their operations into Sydney+NSW. We use a mix of eBees (very expensive, but amazingly reliable) and DIY builds for larger areas or…"
Jul 31, 2015
Andrew Chapman commented on Andrew Chapman's blog post A Pixhawk powered job for Fox Sports
"Tridge: sounds like a more thorough solution on both counts, good stuff

John: camera is a GH4, which is almost the perfect aerials camera in my book. The gimbal is customized from a famoushobby BG003 (added dual bars and aluminium roll bar, both to…"
Jun 14, 2015
Andrew Chapman posted a blog post
Hi everyone, The question comes up from time to time as to whether the Pixhawk is a good alternative to DJI, Mikrokopter, etc for professional use in heavy-lift cinematography. So I wanted to mention this high profile and *very* high risk job we…
Jun 14, 2015
Andrew Chapman replied to Andrew Chapman's discussion X8 coax thrust induced vibration
"18" CF props from TMotor, they don't get much stiffer than that! Being larger slower turning props I'm guessing this is a frequency thing that you wouldn't get on smaller faster props. 
There's approx 10cm spacing between the props, btw.
Stuart: the…"
Mar 1, 2015
Andrew Chapman posted a discussion
Hi all, Since moving to high-end motors and props I have had very low vibes in all my craft, so I was surprised to run into vibration issues in a recent build, my first X8. I did all the usual things of (re)checking all my motors and props for…
Feb 28, 2015
Andrew Chapman commented on Nick Arsov's blog post New multicopter power distribution board+Buck regulator+Current/Voltage sensor
Nov 11, 2014
Andrew Chapman posted a blog post
Hi everyone, Although it is less of an issue for the DIY/hobby end of things (we all seem able to use the word 'drone' without thinking of hellfire missiles), but I've been getting pretty tired of the argument in wider circles and dancing around…
Jun 13, 2014
Andrew Chapman commented on Sandro Benigno's blog post GeoTagging Images on Mission Planner
"It's a bit confusing but support should be through the ardupilot.com forums rather than diydrones forums these days. The intention is that diydrones is for general discussion and info sharing, and the other forums are for support.

Here's the one…"
Apr 22, 2014
Andrew Chapman commented on Sandro Benigno's blog post GeoTagging Images on Mission Planner
"I'm not saying it is definitely broken, but I've never had much success with the geo-ref functionality built in to Mission Planner. 
I use GeoSetter (free, http://www.geosetter.de/en/). Just import your pics, import the .gpx file, figure out the…"
Apr 22, 2014
Andrew Chapman replied to Oliver Volkmann's discussion Altitude Hold Proving Dangerous
"Do you have a log with vibration logging turned on?
If your vibes are too high althold can go nuts, as it can't accurately measure whether you're moving up or down in amongst all the high frequency noise."
Jan 28, 2014
Andrew Chapman commented on Daniel Portillo's blog post UAV Photogrammetry by the setting of the archaeological site of La Bastida, Murcia, Spain.
"Hi Daniel, can you post a link to the fixed wing airframe? Looks like a Mavinci Sirius"
Jan 10, 2014
Andrew Chapman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Hi all, I finally got around to giving AC3.1 a good thrashing on the weekend. I put it through about 2 hours of flight time, here's some observations, mostly general feedback rather than support so I'll post it here rather than the forum, though I…"
Jan 7, 2014
Andrew Chapman replied to Andrew Chapman's discussion Empty KML+GPX files from Plane logs?
"Not sure if it's a bug, or just an incompatibility between v2.76 and the current version of Mission Planner 1.2.87.
Anyway, I really needed to get a KML or GPX file out from my log to do some image geo-referencing, so I wrote a little python script…"
Dec 2, 2013
Andrew Chapman commented on noeL's blog post APM 2.6 external compass making a difference
"I just noticed Foxtech have some neat looking folding GPS masts:
http://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-foldable-gps-seat-p-1265.html"
Dec 1, 2013
Andrew Chapman posted a discussion
Hi all, Does anyone know what senseFly have done to allow for more control over the Canon P+S cameras they use?You can see here that they have made some sort of hardware hack with a plug that connects to the flight controller, but not via the USB…
Nov 29, 2013
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