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Interested by electronics and FPV, created the propaway project and virtual cockpit for FPV http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1312788 http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1338452 http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1305232


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Ben replied to Tomtom Express's discussion How to connect a 0-190Ω gas tank sensor to the APM 2.8 controller?
"I would use a voltage divider to convert the resistance in voltage, connect it to an analog input of the APM. Then you can read the value directly in Mission Planner by using the power monitor feature :…"
Apr 8, 2022
Ben commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Background on the amazing Intel drone swarm demo at the Olympics
"This Chinese drone shows seems much more realistic, especially regarding the speed at which drones are moving. And also their use of many colors, which seems logical as they can apparently produce billions of colours :…"
Feb 16, 2018
Ben commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Background on the amazing Intel drone swarm demo at the Olympics
"Notice that the show was prerecorded (from article linked above) : "Also like the Super Bowl, the opening ceremony production you'll see on your TV - or streaming device - was prerecorded. That's less of a cheat than an insurance policy; tiny drones…"
Feb 16, 2018
Ben commented on Bob's blog post Dealing with jamming/hacking?
"There's a detailed article on hackaday about hacking your specific drone. The guy explains it's possible to connect to the drone via wifi and has reverse engineered the protocol to pilot it and to get the camera feed.
It doesn't seem to have any…"
Sep 3, 2017
Ben commented on tom hobart's blog post How it Works!
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Aug 29, 2017
Ben replied to Rafi Nahmani's discussion Will pay someone to help me find a way to control multiple drones at once (DIY project)
"Not sure he will answer, he opened a lot of threads around similar topics.

Have a look at this other one : http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/how-to-get-longest-flight-time-on...

He says :

"I want to design an octocopter that will respond to…"
Aug 24, 2017
Ben replied to J. Christopher Westland's discussion Servo Jitter is caused by Telemetry Module
"Did you experiment with other servo brands ? I've seen users with similar issue but it happened only for precise brands. Maybe some brands are implementing additional filtering caps as you did."
Aug 22, 2017
Ben replied to Rafi Nahmani's discussion Will pay someone to help me find a way to control multiple drones at once (DIY project)
"Is it for short range (< 5 km) or long range ?"
Aug 22, 2017
Ben commented on jlcortex's blog post Rugerized flight controller with pixhawk inside
"Regarding the use of Ultimate LRS ( http://www.itluxembourg.lu/site/ ) for the long range RC/telemetry, Jose contacted me to present his project and ask authorization. I agreed, and am happy that he chose ULRS after comparing with the other LRS…"
Mar 19, 2017
Ben commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Microsoft AirSim demo at Dronecode leadership meeting
"To me it looks like a concurrent project to DroneCode, MS isn't member of DroneCode, and the article or any other source doesn't mention any link to DroneCode.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/air/…"
Feb 27, 2017
Ben commented on Olivier's blog post The plane is still in once piece! Success!!
"Excellent !

Well the next test will be to fly backwards :)"
Feb 5, 2017
Ben commented on TenzinR's blog post Human Flying Drone
"And here it seems to be in front of a tree, but if you check the video it's actually behind the tree :"
Dec 29, 2016
Ben commented on TenzinR's blog post Human Flying Drone
"Here too :"
Dec 29, 2016
Ben commented on TenzinR's blog post Human Flying Drone
"On some images, the drone seems to be visible through the trees. For example here its arm is completely visible through the trunk of the tree :"
Dec 29, 2016
Ben commented on TenzinR's blog post Human Flying Drone
"Do you think that the 360 video could be fake or that it was legit but the drone was flown in manual mode ? I can't make my opinion on this video : it has every reason to be fake, but it's difficult to find any convincing clue.
In particular the…"
Dec 27, 2016
Ben commented on TenzinR's blog post Human Flying Drone
"It would be interesting to find the 360 degrees video mentionned in the video. "be sure to check out the 360 version of this video shot entirely on Samsung Gear 360 cameras".

Does someone have found this 360 video ?"
Dec 21, 2016
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