Gender
Male
About
Location
Waterloo, Ontario
About Me:
Software Designer and Director of Customer Support for A e r y o n Labs 5 years ending February 2014
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I presently am designing and testing UAVs using APM and Pixhawk
Hometown:
Waterloo
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"yrvind is something else. Makes for pretty interesting reading if you are into sailing. He invented an amazing sextant."
"Thanks for the reply. Somehow I missed that first image. Sounds like will give the ocean a fun/challenging thing to try and break. You have probably run across this guy but he is building something similar for him to ride in (although he is the…"
"I love the project. I would be inclined to change a few things just out of my own experience. Put that steering servo in the hull. 1. IP67 might give you some confidence but with the different temperatures it will see and salt water I would…"
"I wouldn't touch an Intel SBC now. I never seriously considered it because it was ITAR restricted but now that Intel abandons a platform and its evolved cousins so soon after hyping it? Cya Intel."
"Hi
I'm interested if you ever wrote that Falconview Plug-in?
James Pike"
I'm interested if you ever wrote that Falconview Plug-in?
James Pike"
"While the test might show a phantom the rules aren't phantom specific. They apply to any UAV including heavy walled carbon fiber / aluminum lawnmowers. The concern is mostly within control areas when commercial aircraft are descending and…"
"Kind of a crazy debate. Even if 10 phantoms went through a jet engine without a catastrophic failure nobody here wants to be flying in the 11th. Beyond that there is a huge variety of construction materials and geometries in drones so the…"
" I worked at a company that used a cheap ground proximity sensor (sonar). It was the cause of a large percentage of the crashes we had. I would guess 50%. I think linking the logic to the altimeter to reduce the chance of false positive ground…"
Hi I'm trying to reproduce an intermittent flyaway bug and I found some behavior that surprised me. We have a quad that we wanted to control strictly through mavproxy (sometimes no rc receiver plugged in). When we unplugged the RC we found that…
" What a great thread. The "higher end" drone companies are in a tough spot actually. They have to jump through all the regulatory hoops (battery certifications are particularly nasty) and any changes they make require them to recertify. Mistakes…"
"earthpatrol: What a fantastically insightful post. In this industry there is a great deal of throwing a lot of crap at the wall and watching where it sticks. When it sticks somehow that is proof that it is good enough. Even at the high end it is…"
"It would be great if you could test the WN822 to see if it supports monitor mode for the rest of us. It would be great to have a dual antenna output on the vehicle end since there is almost always a blind side with a single antenna."
"Very cool. I am definitely interested in this."
"Pixhawk replacement. I would prefer an offboard barometer/mag- allows for better weather sealing and mag isolation. Redundancy on the pixhawk seems lame considering how reliable processors are compared with the rest of the vehicle. Best thing…"
"I would be very interested in this board."
" Thanks for letting everybody learn from this event. It is almost destiny for flying machines to crash given the chance. I find a lot of RC flying is minimizing risk and managing trust. Batteries seem to be the most fickle of technologies…"
