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Andy commented on Olivier's blog post Impressive Ardupilot based Drone Delivery Demo
"does anyone know what kind of precision landing they use?"
Oct 31, 2017
Andy commented on Tarik Agcayazi's blog post Project log: Autonomously returning a glider from the stratosphere!
"Ok here is one of the papers we released:
https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/9/2535/2016/

and here is the dissertation on the ETH Zurich webpage:
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/122322"
Oct 12, 2017
Andy commented on Tarik Agcayazi's blog post Project log: Autonomously returning a glider from the stratosphere!
"@Andrew Rabbitt
No problems at flying at 100'000 feet have done it during my PhD project building a meteorological drone flying back expensive Instruments of up to 2kg weight
The only challenges are to conquer the cold and the high flying speed once…"
Oct 11, 2017
Andy commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Forced to publish 2016 ESNC contest entry: Stratos Shuttle – looking for sponsors or investors
"here is the direct link to the paper:
http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/9/2535/2016/amt-9-2535-2016.pdf"
Dec 1, 2016
Andy commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Forced to publish 2016 ESNC contest entry: Stratos Shuttle – looking for sponsors or investors
"This type of glider or aircraft is already used on different measuring campaigns.
And it is used because the instruments used on the Glider are very expensive and they need to be berought back especailly in ares where there a re a lot of mountains…"
Dec 1, 2016
Andy replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"thx will try this!"
Apr 27, 2016
Andy replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"hmm ok thats bad news... So there is currently no way to use the opto flow sensor... 
When I need to add another Sonar the quad gets to bulky and its not worth the effort for just positioning hold function..."
Apr 26, 2016
Andy replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"Hy Randy

uups I missed that...
So I can't use my PXFlow if I don't add another sonar to the copter:
WIKI: "Because optical flow requires good sonar/range finder data when the optical flow is enabled, an additional pre-arm check is enforced."

Andy"
Apr 26, 2016
Andy replied to Randy's discussion Optical Flow discussion thread
"Hy

I have the px4flow with an integrated Sonar. I hoked it up to my PIXHAWK and choosed Sonar over I2C but still I don't get any readings. How could I test wehter the sonar data is actually transmitted over the I2C bus to the PIXHAWK?
Andy"
Apr 26, 2016
Andy replied to climr's discussion Possible to disable internal compass?
"same here can't disable the internal compass...."
Apr 14, 2016
Andy replied to Andy's discussion GPS with similar performance to uBlox NEO-M8N
"In terms of safety its very likely that they fail on the same time since everything is the same (hardware, software etc.).
But I probably found now one from mtk..."
Jun 10, 2015
Andy posted a discussion
HyI currently use two NEO-M8N uBlox GPS/GLONASS receiver. Now since two identical manufactured GPS receivers do not really help for reliability I like to use one uBlox NEO-M8N and another manufactured one.Does someone have experience with other…
Jun 5, 2015
Andy replied to Michael Saathoff's discussion GoPro Shutter Trigger on 3DR Solo
"me tooooo where do I get one ahhhhhhh!

Andy"
May 7, 2015
Andy replied to Michael Saathoff's discussion GoPro Shutter Trigger on 3DR Solo
"And how can we controll the Gimbal alone since it will be available as separate part, will we be able to control it with any Pixhawk?
https://store.3drobotics.com/products/solo-gimbal?taxon_id=34

Andy"
May 7, 2015
Andy replied to Andy's discussion Cruise Control
"hmmm push..."
Dec 30, 2014
Andy posted a discussion
DJI has just released a new video with a new feature which comes very handy when you film from a copter and do all the camera controlling by yourself.You can slowly accelerate to maybe 10km/h then flip a switch on the transmitter and its keeping…
Nov 21, 2014
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