Ari Krupnik's Posts

Rocket-power SkyFun

Posted by Ari Krupnik on April 9, 2012 at 11:00pm

First flight of my solid-fuel, rocket-power SkyFun--Saturday at LUNAR Snow Ranch.

Motor: AeroTech E15-PW

Max Altitude: 339 ft

Max Speed: 122 mph

Flight Duration: 24.5 s

Next up: setting up the SkyFun with ArduPilot so it can come back on its own.

Pre-order the iPhly iPhone R/C controller on Kickstarter

Posted by Ari Krupnik on March 25, 2011 at 1:00pm

Please visit the Kickstarter project page: iPhly.org/ks.

It's all in the wrist. Roll the phone to roll. Tilt down to pitch down. Swipe up to throttle up. Swipe side-to-side to yaw.

You can store as many model memories as you like. You can give them long names. You can photograph your models using the iPhone's camera. Seven-segment displays on a TX are so last century.

The software is GPL. The schematics and SVN are on iPhly.org. The app is in the app store (if you don't want to compile your own). I am using KS to raise money for a production run.

Please visit the Kickstarter project page: iPhly.org/ks and share with your pilot friends.

Ari.

Want to meet in the real world

Posted by Ari Krupnik on July 10, 2010 at 12:23pm

This is my first post here. Chris has kindly introduced my project in his post a month ago. I have years of experience with R/C but no experience with drones. I wonder how can I meet some of the people who post here and see their aircraft in action.

The photo is one of my smaller models, a 5 1/4 inch, 2 gram Geobat.

I am in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Ari.