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Gender

Male


About Me:

Been into RC for years. Started with helicopters and have not stopped.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Video Piloting RC Heli's, Planes, Quads, Cars and Yachts. If it flies, floats or goes fast... chances are I probably have one.


Hometown:

The Land Down Under


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Daniel Towns replied to Marcel VDW's discussion Digital video link
"Can you give an estimation of latency with the vivotech camera?
Maybe try shielding the cables, this may help with interference. Also could the camera itself could be producing some RF noise? (I'm not sure) I have heard of other HD camera's…"
Jul 4, 2013
Daniel Towns commented on Yusuf Pirgali's blog post HD video for UAV's
"Basically, I was talking about WHDI... <1ms latency. It makes use of OFDM transmission. It's one of the consumer wireless hdmi technologies. Prices are around $300 from what I've seen. Much less than the $20,000 Pro level COFDM HD transmitters.
I'll…"
May 16, 2013
Daniel Towns commented on Yusuf Pirgali's blog post HD video for UAV's
"Oops. I meant to edit my post... not delete it"
May 16, 2013
Daniel Towns commented on Kevin Hester's blog post Ten dollar telemetry - Bluetooth support added to Andropilot thanks to...
"FTDI Cable should be just fine, although make sure your BT Board is compatible with the output voltage and the logic level of your cable (my FTDI cable, provides a 5V supply with 3.3V logic levels). With my JY-MCU BT_Board (V1.04 3.3-6v) I did not…"
Apr 12, 2013
Daniel Towns commented on Kevin Hester's blog post Ten dollar telemetry - Bluetooth support added to Andropilot thanks to...
"Graham, this web page may help, it has heaps of good info on configuring these BT devices. http://wiki.openpilot.org/display/Doc/Serial+Bluetooth+Telemetry
Basically you need a rs323 to ttl converter of some description. Personally, I used a Arduino…"
Apr 12, 2013
Daniel Towns commented on Kevin Hester's blog post Ten dollar telemetry - Bluetooth support added to Andropilot thanks to...
"Hi Kevin, Good News! It's working! Thank you! I unpaired all the (many) devices in my phone and paired my BT module again. After that it's now working.
Thanks heaps!"
Apr 12, 2013
Daniel Towns commented on Kevin Hester's blog post Ten dollar telemetry - Bluetooth support added to Andropilot thanks to...
"I am trying to connect APM2.5 + Bluetooth to my Android device (Xperia S). I have followed the directions, but no connection is established. Andropilot just says "Please connect telemetry". I have a working Bluetooth connection to my PC but…"
Apr 11, 2013