Gender
Male
About
Location
Ventura, CA
About Me:
Upper cervical doc in SoCal, USA. Computer and beginning robotics hobbyist.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Hobby mostly at this time, interested in learning more about and building autonomous robotic platforms. My teenage daughter wanted to get into "drone flying" so here I am. :-)
Hometown:
Ventura, CA
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"Alright, you could definitely do that with Arducopter and a DIY drone. Of course you would have to program the part where it gets tripped by the motion detector and all that, but flying a perimeter or pre-determined search pattern is definitely…"
"You can definitely do all of that with a Pixhawk or a Navio2+Raspberry Pi running Arducopter. Use Mission Planner on your PC (or similar software on a mobile device such as a tablet) for your ground station. You can do waypointing and pre-programmed…"
"@Thomas Butler - now THAT is an awesome development! I will definitely be keeping my eye on this, thanks for the great teaser.
Is the OP still watching this thread? Maybe he will start over with your new controller. ;-)
Jed"
Is the OP still watching this thread? Maybe he will start over with your new controller. ;-)
Jed"
"Haha! Guess you missed the winking smiley face there...but thanks for adding in your caveats. I'm sure you could tell I was just teasing. You do bring up a good point, because it is still in production, and I did fly a small (maybe 550-ish size)…"
"I just couldn't resist. ;-) Only one is both designed and manufactured in the U.S.A. that I know of: Parallax ELEV-8 Flight Controller. Although admittedly pretty long in the tooth compared to more recent FCs, and I don't even use mine anymore. It's…"
