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Floating Point Coprocessor
I bought an FPUV2 from Parallax (http://www.parallax.com/Store/Components/IntegratedCircuits/tabid/154/CategoryID/31/List/0/SortField/0/catpageindex/3/Level/a/ProductID/244/Default.aspx)and I was wondering if anybody could help me with interfacing it
Read more…Propeller SPIN code for Parallax GPS
I was poking around on Parallax's forum and dug up a demo to use the Smart mode on Parallax GPS module. Thought I would share it.
Read more…Picaxe Chips and UAV
Good day,Anyone out there using the Picaxe Chips to control their UAV? Presently I am working on developing code for my project and I am still looking for a good GPS to integrate into my toy.At the moment there are so many GPS units out there that ma
Read more…50%scale (how do you scale down a design?)
If I reduce a part to half the original size ,do I want to reduce the thickness of the part also,If I go 50% scale does that mean everything else would be scaled to half also ,like the effective payload or gross weight?I at first thought you just div
Read more…Projects, Test flights, Airframe ideas......Anything?
I have noticed lots of emphasis on electronics/autopilots/cameras...etc. and that is great..... But where are all the airframe ideas/designs? What about current airworthy projects? Test flights? Videos? Pictures? Thoughts? There are 465 members (and
Read more…Soldering Circuit Boards
Which is better, a conical tip or chisel tip when soldering components, pins and wires to a prototype board?
Read more…Eye-Fi Card for real-time air photo
Has anyone looked into using an EYE-Fi SD card in their camera for real-time downloads? I wonder what the effective range would be ?http://www.eye.fi/
Read more…Kalman Filter
For those of us who lead a professional life devoted to business development after college, could someone run down the steps that are required to apply a Kalman filter to a collection of data? A pbasic example would help.
Read more…Great Resource for UAV Engineers
I found a great resource for all of us. The link is below:Micro Pilot Resource Links
Read more…Sacramento area?
Is anyone in the Sacramento area?I just joined up and I'm looking to move in the diretion of UAV's (autonomously of course) and would like to see if anyone else is in the Sacramento area... I'm up here in Folsom.
Read more…Digital IO pins
I would like to start a conversation to help me understand how digital IO output works, whats with IO pins being high and low (on and off), how to identify the state of a device when certina pins are and high and low, etc....
Read more…UAV law-International waters
I'm just trying to find the best place to use a uav far removed from shared airspace.Does anyone have knowledge of any restrictions for use at sea? I have been looking at the possibility of making a uav 1/2 scale cri-cri aircraft. Maybe I could deliv
Read more…Learning the Propeller SPIN language
As a current using of PBASIC and about 14 approx other languages as I am a software developer by profession. How difficult is it to pick up the SPIN language? Is it more object oriented based?
Read more…remote controlled helicopter cameraship
I'm designing a remote controlled helicopter cameraship for commercial work and would like to know if it's possible to extend the range of the camera's remote controls for record/pause, iris and zoom. These are usually infra-red line-of-sight. I wond
Read more…Basic stamp networking
If I network 2 or more basic stamps together, for example to use my old bs2 as a slave with my bs2p as the master. Will this in effect, provide me with more overall processing power if I simply use the slave to process and send the results for a coup
Read more…Predator
hello!i am new at this. But found this webpage and got interested right away! I really like the predator plane, but got some questions about it and uav`s.This predator plane is electric, how long is the flighttime on one of theese?How long can this f
Read more…Paparazzi Open-Source Autopilot
I found this on hackaday.com. It is an open-source autopilot Wiki that looks like it would fit nicely with the community here.
Read more…Introduction
Hi all, I've been lurking this site for a month or so and I finally decided to register. I just wanted to take the time to introduce myself; hopefully I'll be able to contribute to discussions when I am more experienced.I'm a junior at Roosevelt High
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