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Male


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New Rochelle, NY


About Me:

Im a developer, and aviation enthusiast. I've been building and flying since I was 7. Im really looking forward to building my own custom drone airframe to load up with cool sensors etc.!


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

dev.etamme.com


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Eric Tamme replied to Colby sts's discussion What is the smallest UAV airframe you have used?
"I am working on a guillows cessna 172. It is designed for free flight or U control. Its a 36" span, wide chord and a nice fat fuselage for holding bits. Im going to work on making it a fully autonomous UAV for indoor use with no remote control. Not…"
Dec 10, 2009
Eric Tamme posted a discussion
So these questions may be bit a daft, but why do all the IMU's have 3 accelerometers on them?I just picked up a memsic 2125 dual axis sensor from radio shack for $30. Wouldnt 2 of these give you "4 axis" of angle input (roll+pitch+yaw+... 1…
Dec 10, 2009
Eric Tamme replied to Kit Dunagan's discussion Has anyone revisited using an android powered phone as a controller?
"I have a rooted G1 and have been doing serial stuff for a while over the USB. But I think a better way to integrate phone and uav might just be to put a simple onboard GSM modle or some thing instead of a whole phone. Some thing like the following??…"
Dec 1, 2009
Eric Tamme commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Does open source undermine innovation?
"P.S. I second the cry for cross platform (or at least Linux compatible tools) to use with Ardupilot. I am just getting my "shop" setup with arduino etc. (just finished installing the cross compiler toolchain) but I would be interested to help out…"
Dec 1, 2009
Eric Tamme commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Does open source undermine innovation?
""Does open source undermine innovation?"

No. Open Source provides tools for people to innovate with.

Case in point: Ardupilot:

Neither Chris or Jordi invented the Arduino platform on which Ardupilot runs. Arduino is open source hardware and…"
Dec 1, 2009
Eric Tamme commented on bGatti's blog post Free Day is January 7th, 2010!
".. ive seen it on hackaday and several other sites..im guessing its going to be $100 giveaway for about 10 seconds"
Nov 25, 2009