Gender
Male
About
Location
Hood River, OR
About Me:
Retired advertising exec, I live in Hood River Oregon and Maui, HI. Spend a lot of time doing various water sports (SUP surfing and racing, outrigger canoe, windsurfing, etc.). I also restore vintage cars and motorcycles and race vintage cars. I'm an electronic geek and a writer
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I've been doing RC for many years, multicopters for about five years and drones for about a year. Interested mostly for the photographic opportunity buy basically I just like complex toys.
Hometown:
Hood River
Activity Feed
"I don't really understand these comments. Would you prefer that police NOT pay attention to an issue that we all know is real? The jamming talk is disturbing because it shows they're still far behind the curve. If you were going to use a drone in a…"
"Could be a power issue. I had a similar challenge connecting additional equipment to my Pixhawk. I assume you are using a separate battery to power everything, but make sure it's up to the job."
"Possibly, but I found a Asus Nexus 7 at Best Buy for $129, and it looks like it's going to work without fiddling."
"I've been using 10,000 mah 4S batteries in my Quad H2O which is not a light frame (waterproof). The batteries come in a heavy plastic enclosure intended for model cars and boats. I carefully slit the case with a dremel to remove the batteries and…"
"Okay, I've chased this long enough, the cheap tablet goes to the grandkids. Sounds like the Tab 4 works okay, is there a better choice?"
"It's at my shop and I don't recall, it's a Samsung 7", probably a Tab 3. I don't get any indication that it is powering the 3DR radio."
I picked up a cheap Samsung tablet to use with Droidplanner and the 3DR 915 radios I have. The 3DR comes with a cable for connecting to tablets, mini USB on both ends, but the cover is blue on one end--which I understand is supposed to go into the…
