About

Gender

Male


Location

Enola, PA


About Me:

Just a regular everyday normal guy.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Longtime aviation buff with an interest in electronics. It's only natural I'd want a UAV.


Hometown:

Harrisburg, PA


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Brendan Rackley replied to Justin's discussion Things to do with an old logitech quickcam?
"The best way to go about something like this would be with something like the USB Host Shield - as found here: http://www.circuitsathome.com/. Fair warning, though - an arduino mega doesn't have anywhere near the memory you will need to capture even…"
Sep 11, 2010
Brendan Rackley commented on Brendan Rackley's blog post My UAV project in the works.
"Scotty:

I had initially hoped I would be able to do exactly that, but the main limitation I found was the pictures the serial camera takes are just too big to even process on the same arduino, much less transmit over a serial link. I have since…"
Aug 24, 2010
Brendan Rackley commented on Brendan Rackley's blog post My UAV project in the works, pt. 2
"@Simon

1. Thanks for the tip, I will keep that in mind.

2. It's actually one of the 60mW ones good for (supposedly) 1500m range - regardless, I don't plan on flying much beyond 500m LOS or so.

I haven't seen any latency issues with the testing…"
Aug 21, 2010
Brendan Rackley posted a blog post
Hello all, (relative) newcomer here. I'm working on a FPV project with abit of a different control mechanism, that I hope to piece-by-piece get up to "UAV" status. Instead of a traditional RC TX/RX setup, I decided to go with a USB joystick ran…
Aug 20, 2010
Brendan Rackley posted a blog post
Hello all, newcomer here. I've been cobbling together some (mostly off the shelf) components together to make a FPV system, at least initially. Later on I plan on adding more goodies to get to "UAV" status, but for now it's all good. Pictured is the…
Aug 4, 2010