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Male


Location

Santorini


About Me:

IT teacher,


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Researching an experimental manned weight-shift quadcopter (not unmanned)


Hometown:

Santorini


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Dimitris Tripakis replied to Dimitris Tripakis's discussion Are the Pixhawk or APM or other auto-pilots fully programmable ?
"I ve seen this since 2011 when it happened.
It has evolved into the Volocopter (look it up), which seems big and expensive.
My approach is much more portable (and I hope economic). Its a folding "wearable" device from which one person hangs.
Of…"
Sep 17, 2014
Dimitris Tripakis replied to Dimitris Tripakis's discussion Are the Pixhawk or APM or other auto-pilots fully programmable ?
""All in all what you are wanting to do seems completely plausible"
Thats what I was hoping for, thanks!

Do you think its better to go for a quadcopter or hexacopter configuration ?

Hexacopter = easier to lift a person because, well, there are more…"
Sep 17, 2014
Dimitris Tripakis replied to Dimitris Tripakis's discussion Are the Pixhawk or APM or other auto-pilots fully programmable ?
"Thomas thanks, great references for me to get started!

Im sorry for being a newbie and the first thing I did was to come here. Being a programmer I can roughly figure out how they work, but I have not had any hands-on experience on them, so…"
Sep 16, 2014
Dimitris Tripakis replied to Dimitris Tripakis's discussion Are the Pixhawk or APM or other auto-pilots fully programmable ?
"Thank you Gerard!

My project does not involve GPS (ie I dont care about coordinates). I only care about altitude and tilt. It need not return to where it was when pushed. But it must return to upright stance and same altitude.

From what you say, I…"
Sep 16, 2014
Dimitris Tripakis posted a discussion
Hello people, For my project I need a fully programmable RC quadcopter platform to test our owncontrol algorithm."Fully programmable" means that I need the drone to maintain upright position andconstant altitude, but I need to control how hard it…
Sep 15, 2014