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Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Restarting the T3 Contest: Now with copters!
"Just when I finish the 12 step program for UAV Pilots Anonymous you had to go start up T3 again. I had just gotten over the shakes too. Curse you...."
Nov 20, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Brian Wolfe's blog post Built up Three more PicPilots
"charly,
  Someone else had asked for help so I posted the code on my website.
http://desert-wolfe.com/PICPilot/default.html
 
  The zip file has two files, one with the init and processing code and one that shows how I'm reading from the device…"
Apr 23, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post About serial image processing techniques: automatic methods with time history needed
"I would echo Kris Nackaerts advice to look into Hugin. It has a capability that sounds like what you looking for. At it's core is a set of very powerful open source image processing tools called Panotools. Unfortunatly it is command line driven and…"
Feb 6, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Bill Nesbitt's blog post AutoQuad ver 5
"Hey Bill,
  Great stuff! I use a similar arrangement in my autopilot, but found that if I attribute the velocity errors to accelerometer bias and correct for it I get a low level oscillation whereby the velocity errors cause a change in…"
Feb 1, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Bill Nesbitt's blog post AutoQuad ver 5
"Thanks Bill. I'm familiar with using the mag vector for attitude estimation other than just yaw, I've just been leary to rely on it because of the fear of local magnetic varience as the airframe moves around (clumps of iron, ground deposits ect..).…"
Jan 31, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Bill Nesbitt's blog post AutoQuad ver 5
"Hey Bill,
  Nice board! I can spot another design junkie a mile away.
  I'm getting ready to re- spin my PICPilot and was wonder why you chose the HMC6042/HMC1041Z combo rather than someof the 3 axis units such as the HMC5843. I'm currently…"
Jan 31, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Let's start an official ArduRover project
"Hey Chris,
I don't have this exact beast, but one similar. I put a beefier motor on to speed it up and found the gear box couldn't hold up to the load and I stripped several gears before switching back to stock.
There are games to be played by…"
Jan 29, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Season 2, Round 1: Synthetic Trappy!
"Link doesn't appear to work. Try Again.
 
T3-Trappy.kmz"
Jan 29, 2011
Brian Wolfe posted a blog post
My entry for the T3 contest, ending this weekend. T3_Trappy.kmz
Jan 29, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3 Contest, Season 2, Round 1: Synthetic Trappy!
"Here is a link to my entry. Could use some polishing, but it'll work for now.
T3-Trappy.kmz
 
 I've included the way points in the KMZ file so it wont auto run the flight when you double click on it (at least not on my machine)  so after loading…"
Jan 29, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Roundup/Review of all the EasyStar clones
"For those that might decide to give the AXN Floater a try here is my build log.
AXN Floater UAV Build
 
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Jan 17, 2011
Brian Wolfe commented on Paul Mather's blog post First person flight through Google Earth HK - GCS Update
"Hey Happy,
Just wanted to let you know I added ArduPilot compatible TM messages to my PicPilot and things seem to be working pretty well with your GCS for the most part. No trouble installing or running on my XP desktop. Haven't tried my netbook…"
Nov 23, 2010
Brian Wolfe commented on James Goppert's blog post QGroundControl w/ ArdupilotMega Mavlink Branch, RC Car LIve Test
"Nice work James. I'm off work this week and plan on following in your footsteps with my PicPilot. I want to evaluate the PixHawk GCS as well as a couple others including Happies. One of my main objectives is to find/modify or make one that runs well…"
Nov 20, 2010
Brian Wolfe commented on Paul Mather's blog post HappyKillmore's GCS Alpha Release is ready
"Hey edouard,
Happy did mention in one of his posts that he got elements of his GCS implementation from Open Pilot and displays from C# Avionic Instrument Controls by Guillaume CHOUTEAU. I'm sure he'll be adding the appropriate GPL licensing boiler…"
Nov 13, 2010
Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 8: The egg-drop round!
"Hey Morli,
If I'm posting a new blog there is an option for upload file. When responding to an existing blog that option is not there. What I ended up doing is starting a new blog to upload the file, saved that blog as a draft (although someone…"
Sep 11, 2010
Brian Wolfe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 8: The egg-drop round!
"Oh No, My wife needs no help with my chore list. If fact the next challenge should be to get some of you guys out here to see how many chores you can get through in a weekend.

Seems like there was an issue getting the KML files posted?? I finally…"
Sep 10, 2010
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