Gender
Male
About
Location
NSW
About Me:
An Aeronautical Engineer with years of air frame design experience on full size aircraft. Have worked with micro air vehicles for most of my life.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Search and rescue, surveying and high altitude research. Interested in basic robotic's and control. Looking forward to learning from the community.
Hometown:
castle hill
Activity Feed
"So glad to see this. PixHawk 2 is hard to get a hold of and not easy to setup compared to Pixhawk 1. Never liked the idea of the "cube" anyway."
"OK looks like the truth about this design is finally coming to the surface. What a relief. So when it finally gets scrapped and the next feasible design gets built instead, will the successful design finally get the prize money it deserves?"
"I don't know why we even have a DIY Forum when all it is used for is to advertise commercial out of the box solutions? Hopefully Jordi gets it right with mRobotics."
"What a shame. Although DIY was not as profitable, it still brought in the $$. Not sure how they will compete in software, not really a core competency I suppose. No point in expanding too quickly if the market is not ready for it. I think drones…"
"Amazing how these guys are leading the pace with commercial tech."
"So where do bird or branch strikes fit into this 99.99999%?"
"No elevators in fwd flight?"
"Its is really difficult to belive that the winning entries would actually meet the contest requirements. They basically quote a wing span of 4m and with a MTOW of 25kg and batteries more than half this, its hard to see how they could meet structural…"
"I assume that a lot of this can be done in DroneKit. Has anyone actually done anything like this in the forums? Randy?"
"Great stuff!!"
"Truth is Chris was always interested in starting a business rather than DIY. Figured this out early by watching his videos online. Problem is you can't based a business on free IP. Market forces and competition etc. Did DJI ever have an open…"
"I've been reading the low-down of the QuadPlane code and I must say it is impressive. Thanks to the developers for doing such a great job! Now to design an airframe to put it in :)"
"Interesting point Stephen regarding stall. Could a stall detection be included such that during transition the quad rotors engage and manage this risk? Or is it there already...dunno?"
"Nice 1 thanks!!"
"...just like a blimp :)"
"Thanks for posting this. A frozen chicken would do more damage than a live one. Statistical analysis is only as good as assumptions made. Does it take into account intent to cause harm?"
