"There is another thing you should add when talking about MikroKopter, you have no commercial use fee either. MK charges 1000 euro license if you want to use their product for commercial work.

That frame looks very nice and there is a lot of work…"

"> Im wondering what people want, do you want a single exe, that does what you think it would, or if i include some other dlls we can have graphs? what do you guys think?

Is this a closed source app?"

"Aha, that makes sense, so to put it in a simple way, the objects are not really real but are parsed and drawn by a script. They will not exist as just models to simply be exported, to make a model somehow the script needs to be parsed first as they…"

"I just noticed the motor wires are going inside the frames as well, this is not the same as in real life is it? This was done by a few people with MikroKopters and it causes the wires to rub on the slots and then they short against the frames…"

"This is immensity impressive work, it looks like a photo, the KDA motors are simply stunning. Can you write more about yourself and how this was done. There is no way this is a hobby for you, you must be in the film industry or something. How long…"

"Additionally, I can help you with Flightgear support if you wish, it is very simple. Inside this directory you will find an xml file, this is the protocol definition file for Flightgear. You will see the items to input and the items you desire to be…"

"I hope this link works.

If not, it is in websvn under ground/share/openpilotgcs/models

You can tag the Easystar directory and just download it from that interface. It is a 3DS with all the textures in separate files, the model is perfect, the…"

"> Does anyone have a good quality 3d Model of an Easystar? If someone could build an X-Plane Easystar that would be incredible....

Use the one from OpenPilot, you will want AC3D which is what was used, import the 3DS and export it for Xplane (which…"

"> Not to minimize any one's work here I'm sure there is more to this than it looks

You have no idea how hard this is!!! I can not state how impressive this demo is to me and how much processing power they must have on board to achieve it.

> No it…"

"And that comes down to barrier to entry often and this is why Ardunio succeed better than plain AVR in the hobby space, plain AVR is faster and more flexible but the barrier to entry is higher and if you want to do something simple on a weekend,…"

"Not as techie but I did one of these with Angus last year:

http://www.davidankers.com/?p=11

Might help someone planning to do such a flight, highly recommended as loads of fun!"

"They are surely not serious? "explaining why the apparently underpowered Arduino has proven more successful than more powerful computing boards, such as the Beagle Board."

That is exactly like saying a Ford Fiesta is more "successful" than a…"

"Bedankt Hooks. Don't worry, no energy used at all, I'll leave the AP wars to those with commercial interests. I must admit painting varnish on your chips doesn't leave a good impression, seems a bad attitude but perhaps that is just me. I still know…"

"Exactly, the fun is in the flying and seeing how they perform. The difference between the units will be down to the software.

From my understanding, an AHRS has an on-board processor that does the maths and sends the solved attitude equations it to…"

"No one is accusing anyone of piracy, you need to tone down the hyperbole a bit Chris. I am very interested in the back story of that autopilot, how Mr. Yin got the AHRS design and part selection. Even in that RCGs thread I see interesting debate…"