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Displays or headware

Is there a need for a cheap, small, color LCD?I ask because it seems like a few people have asked or tried to hack out their own and i have/know a few solutions as i had a project dealing wearable computers (i went as far as buying those digital camc

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DIY UAV system for aerial photo

I am running a GIS company in Malaysia, I plan to invest in a RC that can fly autonomously, taking hi-res vertical aerial pic of min. 1miles x 1miles. With control flight system, Probably fly at 500-800 feet. With image processing software to help wi

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Optical Tracking

Any suggestions from the group on how one could optically track a UAS using a powered telescope. The UAS transmits its coordinates and altitude to the base station how would one go about converting this to a x/y vector for the optical system? (this c

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radio control system range

hi i am new to fpv flying and i want to know how everyone flying fpv are controlling their planes at long distances greater than 1 or 2 km with their radio control systems.i am having trouble finding a reasonably priced radio control system that will

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Handling Auto/Manual Switch

Hello all,I'm working on the auto/manual switching system for my UAV right now, and I was wondering how all of you handle inputting the signal from the receiver. At least for me, the switch on my transmitter that I'm using to switch between auto and

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Good source for cheap lipos and other parts

I thought I would let everyone know about hobbycity.com. They are an excellent place to get lipo packs for about half(!) what they cost from any US source I have found. Their shipping is also reasonable and quick. The last time I ordered from them, I

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let's discuss URBI :)

As a high powered, cross platform language, i think its appropriate that it has a thread to popularize, discuss, help, and educate UAV builders in it. I say UAV builders because we are a niche community, and we get what we all are trying to do and pr

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IMU or GPS for drift?

as we all know, wind drift is a problem when trying to get to our GPS coordinates. While in physics, for constant velocity drift, the equation is pretty easy, programming it to accomodate is a different story. while i haven't checked out, does the au

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Power Advice

Hello everyone,Besides some small roadblocks, my Arduino-EasyStar UAV project has been going well. The autopilot is nearly debugged (or so I tell myself : P), and I have all of the electronics parts I need, except for the proper batteries.I'm not sur

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