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Male


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Monterey, CA


About Me:

I build robots.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

The hardware is very similar to my AUV needs.


Hometown:

Monterey CA


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Gerry Lichter commented on Nitin Gupta's blog post Turn Odroid into a Powerful Companion Computer for your Advanced Drone Applications with FlytOS!
"Nitin:
Do you know if the Odroid XU4 can run OpenCL accelerated OpenCV code? I've had varying levels of success with ARM GPU compatibility..."
Mar 10, 2016
Gerry Lichter commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post The new forums need YOU!
"I can appreciate the benefits of separating the customer support needle from the general posting haystack, but I'm not sure if funneling a thriving and successful community in to an untested and to be brutally honest, generic php-based Ning…"
Sep 29, 2013
Gerry Lichter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Announcing the next era at 3D Robotics
"VC isn't inherently evil. Some VC is interested in long term growth. I've never contributed a single line of code so I don't really see my opinion as carrying much weight.

I think we can look to Makerbot Industries as a pretty good indication of…"
Sep 29, 2013
Gerry Lichter commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post The new forums need YOU!
":/ Isn't there some concern this is going to fragment the community? What is the purpose behind dividing the users between the two sites like this? Now I have to go to twice as many locations to read all DIYDrones content."
Sep 29, 2013
Gerry Lichter replied to Jani Hirvinen's discussion Supported devices and connection problems in Andropilot Users Group
"ADK Compatible Devices I own:
Acer Iconia A100 2.3.4+
HTC Evo 3D 2.3.4+
HTC Evo V 4g 2.3.4+

Working USB OTG on Evo 3D with this ROM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVpCs_SAEUA
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-v-4g/653967-otg-usb-help-needed.html…"
Mar 6, 2013
Gerry Lichter commented on Al Lowrie's photo
"Visio?"
Mar 6, 2013
Gerry Lichter commented on PX4's blog post PX4FLOW Release
"Just picked mine up today! Looks great.

No GPS underwater, so position and velocity are a lot harder to determine. Camera needs a pressure housing(dive light), and the ultrasonic range finder speed of sound is going to be off. But air attenuates…"
Feb 15, 2013
Gerry Lichter commented on CrashingDutchman's blog post Project 'Volare' on Kickstarter
"200 miles + 5lbs + autonomous? Any single one of those is hard enough on a $600 budget. The kickstarter should be updated with a proposed bill of materials so viewers can lend constructive criticism and the proposal can be modified to be more…"
Feb 10, 2013
Gerry Lichter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New UAV game for Google Earth
"What I think is novel about this is using the Google Earth API to create a game engine. That's the value I see provided and worth emphasis. The distinction between manned and unmanned vehicles being sort of artificial in a virtual environment.

Any…"
Oct 2, 2012
Gerry Lichter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Trash-collecting sub-drone design
"@Peter
Racial slurs have never been a good way to make friends in any of the professional environments I've worked in."
Jul 14, 2012
Gerry Lichter commented on CrashingDutchman's blog post MPU-9150 – world’s first 9-axis motion tracking device
"AFAIK the DMP code only exists on the I2C version of the chip and hasn't been ported to the SPI version used by the ArduIMU V3. This assumes that the I2C binary blob is the same as the SPI, which isn't necessarily the case.

Short of finding an SPI…"
Jun 14, 2012
Gerry Lichter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post OpenROV in the New York Times
"IMU/AHRS/INS data is used in AUVs although waterproofing cameras and thrusters is what normally stalls ROV projects.

My go-to waterproof camera is epoxy and a dive light. The video output and power hull penetration is a path of ingress for water.
I…"
May 30, 2012
Gerry Lichter replied to Frank Zhao's discussion ArduIMU V3, source code for DMP?
"MPU-9150 9-DoF DMP Board:
MPU-9150 MotionFit Wireless SDK $199.00

MPU-6050 9-DoF DMP Compatible Compass:
AK8975

MPU-6050 6-DoF DMP Sensor Fusion Arduino Sketch:
https://github.com/jrowberg/i2cdevlib/blob/master/Arduino/MPU6050/E...

Reasonable…"
May 29, 2012
Gerry Lichter replied to Hai Tran's discussion Water proof multicopter
"It's been my intention to make an amphibious quadcopter for a long time. Unfortunately, I'm lazy so what follows are my waterproofing tricks.

As mentioned, BLDCs are essentially waterproof already, with the bearings being surprisingly resistant to…"
May 13, 2012
Gerry Lichter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM-powered hexacopter project on Kickstarter
"I've always had a tendency to be contrary, but I don't think Kickstarter ever had much credibility to ruin.

It's an online art exhibit where starving artists get money thrown at them to put on a dancing monkey act of "creative inspiration". There…"
Feb 1, 2012
Gerry Lichter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot 2012 Software Roadmap
"@ Jack,

I'm on my 3rd attempt to find an android phone which has a usable imu. Started with the LG Optimus V & Droid 2 Global, then bought 2x Samsung Galaxy S Epic 4gs, now am waiting on an HTC Evo 3d.

The Samsung Galaxy S II is supposed to have a…"
Jan 18, 2012
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