Gender
Male
About
Location
Reykjavik
About Me:
Middle-aged gastrointestinal surgeon (Bariatric), RC modeller since childhood, builder and flyer, Technology and science geek, Husband, Two boys (22 and 18) who are accomplished RC pilots and a wonderful daughter (12)
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Along with a group of RC interested engineering students and some wilderness search and rescue technology specialists we aim to develop and test affordable UAV systems to support SAR in the barren landscape and harsh environment of Iceland I am one of two "Angel-investors" supporting the project until we can apply for and hopefully get development grants. Two project ideas prevail at the moment: 1. a loitering drone (Arducopter?)for eye-in-the-sky, real time hi-res video downlink to the command center in search operations. 2. a winged autonomous drone for hi-res aero-photography, hopefully with a real time downlink for analysis using the crowd-sourcing principle.
Hometown:
Reykjavik, Iceland
Activity Feed
"Great! Glad not to have to resort to oriental copies of doubtful quality. Also glad to see Iceland in the list. On-line retailers often give us a hard time by forgetting to include this great (but little) nation in their list of shipping options. "
"Would someone sending a pixhawk or apm by mail out of USA or Canada be at risk of FBI or whatever knocking on their door ?"
"Can it be that the US government is trying to help its friends in the east to prevent this kind of outragious criminality ? :D
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/russians-capture-cigaret...
Now seriously, where will we get our…"
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/russians-capture-cigaret...
Now seriously, where will we get our…"
"@Klaus, did you get a replacement for your APM clone?"
"@Wayne There sure is nothing wrong with experimenting. but I doubt it will be easy to gain an advantage over other means like a fishnet or simple belly landing which usually is very short-field anyway.
Someone said: "Why think, when you can do…"
Someone said: "Why think, when you can do…"
"What is the problem you want to solve with this solution?"
"One year, Almost 60.000 views and 184 pages of comments. That's quite a bit.
Hate to barge in on an important discussions but may I suggest to the devteam that they start a fresh thread with a short introductory overview of the development and…"
Hate to barge in on an important discussions but may I suggest to the devteam that they start a fresh thread with a short introductory overview of the development and…"
"Eh... I am still waiting. I was about to order a couple of APM's for our SAR testplanes when I saw this thread starting up. I decided to hold off until the new version came out. Chris said end of the week so I have been checking daily but still no…"
"I am simply waiting for something like this."
"Yes!!! Mac version, please! "
"Oh,, and if the extinguisher dust is pale yellowish it is probably ammonium phosphate, which is corrosive. Also the white powders used in extinguishers (Sodium or potassium carbonate) are rather corrosive and may easily ruin your equipment. Don't…"
"There's a sizeable electrolytic capacitor in ESC's. It looks like a small drum, usually sitting between the feeding wires. From the pictures it looks like this capacitor burnt up and torched the hole in the fuselage side.
Here's a video that shows…"
Here's a video that shows…"
"I got hold of some 433 modules now and look forward to testing them.
Having a (recently acquired) ham-license allowing me to transmit in the 430MHz band at power levels enough to cook chicken (500watts), I see no problem in using them other than the…"
Having a (recently acquired) ham-license allowing me to transmit in the 430MHz band at power levels enough to cook chicken (500watts), I see no problem in using them other than the…"
"Quote from JVC :
Digital image stabilization minimizes camera shake, and the camera includes rolling shutter cancellation that corrects the image skewing that can occur with CMOS image sensors. The result is distortion-free images, even during…"
Digital image stabilization minimizes camera shake, and the camera includes rolling shutter cancellation that corrects the image skewing that can occur with CMOS image sensors. The result is distortion-free images, even during…"
Before rebuilding a crashed Scarab Stealth-Reconn from Multiwiicopter.com (http://www.multiwiicopter.com/products/stealth-quad-fpv-reconn) and fitting it with my new APM2 board instead of the Paris board I would like to hear if anyone already has…
