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Little Rock, AR


About Me:

Real pilot and design engineer...Speak fluent German. Got a soldering gun and do calculus for fun (no just kidding)


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Like flying but hate buying 100LL - I miss the days of cheap oil.


Hometown:

Little Rock


Activity Feed

Anthony Gagliardo commented on William's photo
"Ok here are my .02 cents worth.  You might want to  extend the tube a bit more than that.  Reason being to get the static ports (holes on the side of the tube) ahead of the pressure increase that occurs at the leading edge of the wing.  In general…"
Sep 11, 2012
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Max Levine's blog post feel the power of Aluminium...
"Its very much an exothermic reaction which could soften the plastic and the outcome.  They may be using something else."
Apr 17, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Max Levine's blog post feel the power of Aluminium...
"Finally someone has found an ingenius use for Drano!  When I was a kid my best friend and I found many uses for sodium hydroxide and aluminum.  They were all fun and interesting to 12 year olds but they were all the opposite of constructive."
Apr 17, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Russell B. Sutton's blog post Mobile Video Recorders for your ground Station
"Well.....the same SD cards are also used in my GoPro that has no trouble writing at 1080p 30fps.  I think its more in how the NTSC signal is encoded rather than the medium being a bottleneck.  The codec algorithm is where most of the business takes…"
Apr 17, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Russell B. Sutton's blog post Mobile Video Recorders for your ground Station
"Hey Russell,
I just had a look at the MDVR25 you asked about and its the exact same box I got from dealextreme.com."
Apr 16, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Russell B. Sutton's blog post Mobile Video Recorders for your ground Station
"I tried to use a Dazzle DV to Analog (NTSC) converter connected to iBook Pro via firewire and found that while it worked it was too much junk to drag out and manage along with all my other gear.  When I would get it to record It would stop recording…"
Apr 16, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo replied to Neil Baker's discussion Possible xbee alternative?
"Masterbaker -  I am looking at these data radios too.  Have you got your hands on some yet?"
Apr 16, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Chris Anderson's blog post [UPDATED] New APM 2.0 beta code (2.012) released
"Thanks Michael.  Using arduino I was able to load APM 2.011 but not 2.012.  I am not familiar with what I need to change in 2.012 to get it to compile properly. Chris said he had posted the wrong version and and a few hours later posted the correct…"
Apr 9, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Chris Anderson's blog post [UPDATED] New APM 2.0 beta code (2.012) released
"Actually the terminal shows:
Opened com port
Init
 "
Apr 8, 2011
Anthony Gagliardo commented on Chris Anderson's blog post [UPDATED] New APM 2.0 beta code (2.012) released
"Hey guys,
I tried to do a firmware update to APM 2.012 and it appeared to start loading but stopped here:

...
 
 
I tried to use the terminal and just get Opened com port and not prompt.
 
Any ideas?  
 "
Apr 8, 2011