Gender
Male
About
Location
Nome, AK
About Me:
I'm a surveyor and geospatial engineer!
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
T-Rex 600E with custom camera mount. Always trying to get the darn thing working right... Arducopter is my new obsession.
Hometown:
Nome
Activity Feed
"Yes, it looks like the MP code supports both 1 second and 3 second formats. I tested it with 1 second (the only resolution which mission planner grabs automatically for areas where data is available) and everything worked fine. I don't necessarily…"
"Figured this one out.
Problem:
Missing data for much of Alaska (and similar latitudes in other places) for the SRTM version in the available repositories.
Solution:
Get the files yerself! For example, a mission to be planned at N64.5 W165.5 requires…"
Problem:
Missing data for much of Alaska (and similar latitudes in other places) for the SRTM version in the available repositories.
Solution:
Get the files yerself! For example, a mission to be planned at N64.5 W165.5 requires…"
"I thought something like that to be the case. However, when looking at the elevation profile of a planned flight, the SRTM profile is flat (nothing there), and the GE profile shows a reasonable, if sparse, profile. I'm not really concerned with the…"
I was planning a mission in an area which either has no SRTM elevation data or bad (i.e. all elevations are 0m) data. When attempting to use the 'verify height' option while creating waypoints, everything is referenced to the missing/bad SRTM data.…
Sad news from the northwest. It sounds like it may become a Class B Misdemeanor to simply own a drone capable of video or photo, and a Class A to fly it.Check out the story.
"This is very cool. We hear about fixed-wing drones zipping around high in the skies, but here is a fully autonomous helicopter, making its own decisions! I particularly like how, in the live commentary, the pilots weren't entirely sure the specific…"
"Haha! I just saw this on reddit. Was going to post here, but I see my job has been done for me. :)"
"I wasn't sure just how into the UAV scene you guys up there were, but this is impressive! Kinda makes me wish I wasn't the only one pioneering UAVs down here in Anchorage. Oh well, someone has to do it, I suppose! Keep up the good work!"
"KL0YB on board! Is there a reason for the ',' in the group title?"
"Thanks!
They're FatShark FPV goggles. The whole flight (and most of what I do) is FPV."
They're FatShark FPV goggles. The whole flight (and most of what I do) is FPV."
I've managed to get everything up and running again! This is my newish hexa from uDrones (I've decided to forgo a rant on that subject for now). After working around my PDB issue (still unsolved) and engaging in some close combat, things are looking…
After several flights with my new hexa, I've run into a problem. Motor number 3 does not spin when the others do. Long story short, I narrowed it down to something with the PDB. If I plug motor 3 directly into the APM it works fine, but if it's…
"I'll step in as a mighty skeptic and say this IS a hoax. If I'm not mistaken, there currently is no technology whereby such a long flight may be made possible (at least not for rotorcraft of this size). This includes liquid fuel as well as battery…"
After waiting for the weather to clear up, I managed to get the quad out for an altitude test. To make a long story short, everything was going quite well up to a couple hundred meters or so. At that point I figured it might be time to descend so as…
"I heard that the atmosphere wasn't interested in this little game, so it got up and walked off leaving fewer particles to slow a descent ;)"
"I'm in a similar boat. I don't have a cable to update the MinimOSD firmware, but I've upgraded to 2.6 on my APM (which is now MAV1.0). I haven't tried booting up with the OSD, but instead I'm looking for a way to revert to MAV 0.9 until I can get my…"
