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About
Location
San Francisco, CA
About Me:
I am VP Product at 3DR and lead product management, product marketing, and design. My personal homepage can be found at www.ddmckinnon.com.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
From trapping vultures with UAVs in the Gobi Desert to co-founding Agribotix with my dear father to building the enterprise product group at 3DR, I have a passion for all things drones.
Hometown:
Boulder, CO
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I recently wrote a little post designed to help those coming from a drone background pass the Fundamentals of Surveying exam, which I believe is an essential step to actually getting value out of drone data. Let me know what you think.…
I banged my head against a while for a while learning to share drone data in Mapbox and, now that I've got everything figured out, think it is a lot of fun and I thought I would share lessons learned on DIYD. Unfortunately, running JavaScript from…
"@Gary: No problem. It looks like Sony did discontinue the QX1, but I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced it with something better. Check out this miniaturized version of the A7S, for example. I have one in the office and it is rock solid. I will…"
"@Tom: I can assure you that this is worse than the EIT process, having completed them both. Not that that is an excuse for either the FAA or NCEES. In this day and age it does not need to be difficult to administer a computerized exam. Thanks for…"
As always, this post is mirrored over on my website with the rest of my musings on drones at http://www.ddmckinnon.com/category/drones/I am as excited as anyone in the commercial drone field for the passage of Part 107 and the relaxing of the…
"@Thorsten. You are right! My changes should up now."
I had so much fun playing around with DroneKit Python over the last month or so, that I thought I would try my hand at DroneKit Android. Specifically, I was interested in building a customized version of Tower. As always, this blog post is cross…
"@Stephen, I suggest giving this another try. I don't believe any new features are going into DroneKit, once camera and gimbal control are built as real functions. Everything should be pretty smooth at this point.
@Randy, I can do that. You guys…"
@Randy, I can do that. You guys…"
"@David, thanks for the catch. For those of you who need a slightly more detailed explanation, the IP addresses, protocols, and ports should match between MAVProxy and the GCS. Tower tcp:127.0.0.1:14550 would connect straight to SITL, while tower…"
As always, this post is mirrored on my personal blog with a little nicer formatting at ddmckinnon.com. Ever since I moved to Berkeley and started at 3DR, I dreamed of developing an app that ran on-board Solo that would let me see who was chillin’ on…
"Nice, Ramon! Can't wait to use this for the hackathon!"
"@Benoit: I haven't investigated any of these. I just saw a few random posts. Live view over WiFi is pretty good, but the issue I ran into was related to the RasPi connecting on boot. It was succeeded around 20% of the time for no reason I could…"
"This should help. I have not done exactly what you described, but it should be fairly straightforward."
"@All: Very interesting follow up--I'm at the Commercial UAV Expo in Vegas right now and Lockheed has a nearly identical sensor flying on their $30k Indago quadcopter. They've gimbaled a QX-30 using a simple servo gimbal. It would be great to see…"
"Good question. I don't, but I should. If I were forced to spit out some numbers, I would say turtle is 2.5 m/s and rabbit is 15 m/s.
To do these experiments yourself, you can change WP_NAV_SPEED and/or LOIT_SPEED in Tower and see how that affects…"
To do these experiments yourself, you can change WP_NAV_SPEED and/or LOIT_SPEED in Tower and see how that affects…"
"@UAV_Enthusiast: The WiFi API is shared across all Sony cameras. Specifics for each camera are available at https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/
@Kristopher Kabbabe: There are some hacky workarounds for a wired solution, but the API is not…"
@Kristopher Kabbabe: There are some hacky workarounds for a wired solution, but the API is not…"
