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Male


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Berkeley, CA


About Me:

I work at 3D Robotics in aerial mapping.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

http://vehicle.me.berkeley.edu/~bbasso/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/


Hometown:

Oyster Bay


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Brandon Basso commented on Greg Crutsinger's blog post Parrot announces drone educational program to promote aerial teaching and research
"Nice job, Greg. Looks great!"
Jul 15, 2016
Brandon Basso commented on Fredia Huya-Kouadio's blog post Tower v3.2.1 Release
"Looks awesome Fredy, well done!"
May 19, 2016
Brandon Basso posted a blog post
We're been hard at work at 3DR on system architecture and looking into new ways of building adaptable UAV systems.Solo in particular leverages a number of distributed systems--vehicle, controller, and app--that continue to enable industry-leading…
Apr 21, 2016
Brandon Basso commented on Jeevan Kalanithi's blog post A look at the Solo gimbal development process
"Gimbal testing progress report: Much shaking happening in China!"
Jul 10, 2015
Brandon Basso commented on Brandon Basso's blog post Solo: Open for development
"Thanks Tridge!  It's been great working with you, Randy, and the rest of the dev team on things like data logging.  Looking forward to making Arducopter even better on Solo and in general!  Next on the docket in getting the Solo fork in closer sync…"
Jun 11, 2015
Brandon Basso posted a blog post
3DR is proud to announce that today we’re opening the source code for the Solo flight controller. Solo is a consumer product, aimed at simplifying the process of getting great aerial footage. As a development story, true to 3DR’s open spirit, Solo…
Jun 10, 2015
Brandon Basso commented on PX4's blog post PX4 - Call for VTOL test pilots
"Awesome.  It reminds me of this solution from a few years ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2lUJk-fziE
Do you guys have any papers on the control scheme?"
Dec 17, 2014
Brandon Basso commented on AKRCGUY's blog post 3DR Releases the New Aero-M & X-8M Mapping Platforms
"@David...thanks for the comments.  I'll reply over in the announcement thread:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/3dr-announces-the-official-laun..."
Oct 14, 2014
Brandon Basso commented on Chris Anderson's blog post DroneCon 2014 underway
"All talks and slides will be posted online soon!"
Jun 22, 2014
Brandon Basso commented on Brandon Basso's blog post DroidPlanner 2.0 Beta Announced
"Justin, That's a great idea as well.  The basic FollowMe--copter and gimbal point at the same point--will be followed by some behaviors like the one you suggest.  Untimately, fully specifying the camera path is where we would like to go.  In that…"
Jan 26, 2014
Brandon Basso commented on Brandon Basso's blog post DroidPlanner 2.0 Beta Announced
"@Justin.  Follow Me is coming soon! Your description of how it should work is pretty much right: you have a guided mode waypoint that gets updated.  Getting the update rates working right so that the aircraft actually tracks a moving point in a…"
Jan 26, 2014
Brandon Basso commented on Brandon Basso's blog post DroidPlanner 2.0 Beta Announced
"@Hughes  Glad you like it!!
As Arthur said, we'll have a small portion of the screen that is customizable and won't interfere with the minimalism of the whole UI.  Moving forward, I think we'll continue to have the stock experience be as simple as…"
Jan 22, 2014
Brandon Basso posted a blog post
The DroidPlanner team, led by Arthur Benemann, is pleased to announce the next version of its Android-based UI. DroidPlanner 2.0 offers a completely redesigned interface for controlling 3DR multirotors over Mavlink. The UI/UX has been rethought with…
Jan 21, 2014
Brandon Basso posted a blog post
Cameron Rose quite eloquently put his thoughts and hopes on the futures of UAVs in a recent National Geographic article.  Cameron is a graduate student at UC Berkeley in EECS in Ron Fearing's group, which is famous for, among other things,…
Dec 17, 2013
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Dec 3, 2013
Brandon Basso posted a blog post
The University of Miami is studying oil spills with drifters, UAVs, and a kite!  From The Atlantic:More than three-and-half years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are…
Dec 2, 2013
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