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About
About Me:
Runaway academic with a background in machine learning and UAS research. Tech4Good and STEM Ambassador.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Used to work in academia on design systems for 10-30kg fixed wing UAS. Now involved with a drone startup and doing a lot of flying and tinkering on the side. Particular interest in robotics and machine learning.
Hometown:
Southampton, UK
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"Is anybody aware of a store I can go and buy one of these delta quads right now at not too exuberant a price? (preferably UK / EU)"
"@Hein, thanks!
@Thomas, to answer your questions:
1) Currently we are mapping what we are picking. So that means just a couple 100m which can be flown in a few minutes. Picking takes much (!) longer. Eventually much larger stretches can be just…"
@Thomas, to answer your questions:
1) Currently we are mapping what we are picking. So that means just a couple 100m which can be flown in a few minutes. Picking takes much (!) longer. Eventually much larger stretches can be just…"
Marine litter is a huge problem with lots of statistics that boggle the mind. Most people will also have heard of the North Pacific Gyre, or rather, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It occupies a relatively stationary area that is twice the size of…
"@Michael: Thank you, yes please drop me a line.
@Oliver: Actually I had also integrated a FrSky/Taranis-Mavlink telemetry module from Airborne Projects as a backup. Unfortunately due to a bug in the firmware I discovered the GPS aspect of it did…"
@Oliver: Actually I had also integrated a FrSky/Taranis-Mavlink telemetry module from Airborne Projects as a backup. Unfortunately due to a bug in the firmware I discovered the GPS aspect of it did…"
"@oliver: Thanks. Yes they were RFD 900s from jDrones. Supposed to be plug and play but I never got them to work. Perhaps something Im doing wrong but I dont see it. No response from jDrones unfortunatley. No video, so yeah, was flying completely…"
You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. All you have is a 2 second VHF ping from an implant that you can pickup from 100-400m.Where, how, and why do you…
"@benbojangles: its "DIY" drones right? :) And yes, I unfortunately I dont live next to Yosemite. Given the brief window allotted to me by the weather & missus it was all I could do :)"
In a last post I discussed my little flying object detector project that I’ve been doing for fun. While it worked it relied on communication with an external laptop in order to work (the on board odroid was not powerful enough to run the convnet…
"Thanks Adam, really interesting, thanks!"
"@Victor: haven't tried TensorFlow yet but would like to and this would be a good excuse :) Be great to try the brain 2 though I doubt it has the juice to run everything on board (as nice as it is). But could couple it with a Jetson TK1 ?"
"Hi Thomas. Thanks, I know, looking into buying one :)"
About a year and a half ago I saw Jetpac’s video of their Spotter app and I remember thinking at the time that it would be so cool to get this flying on a drone. Some poking got me a little towards that goal but its not until the past week that I…
"Thanks @leonardthall, will do"
"Hi LD,
Thanks for the kind offer. We are exploring the EMI system, but in any case it would be useful for the GPR based system (which has similar height control requirements). I cant say much about it yet but will post here when we've reached the…"
Thanks for the kind offer. We are exploring the EMI system, but in any case it would be useful for the GPR based system (which has similar height control requirements). I cant say much about it yet but will post here when we've reached the…"
"@Adam: re EMI sensor, indeed. Re GPR, tricky but not impossible ;) Hope to post on that in the near/mid future."
"Ideally yes. Depends fully on the interest. Any ideas, or suggestions just ping me :)"
