Gender
Male
About
Location
Michigan
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Love flying RC planes, provide IT support for UAV's that I work with.
Hometown:
Michigan
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"This is great stuff! Passing down some good experience at early ages is awesome! My dad taught me to hunt and fish. My kids are being exposed to tons more technology and fun stuff than I ever was."
"I certainly see the benefits of drones. Love flying them, just hope that ??% does not infringe on others who fly for whatever reason. "
"Those 63% really need to worry more about big brother tapping into their computers, social media, email, phone calls, and anything other electronic communications before they worry about drones. Just sayin. "
"Here is an American based company with starter FPV packages.
http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPat...
Jim"
http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPat...
Jim"
"Trent, FYI, someone has already done it!!
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-formation-flying-attempt
I will probably play around with this stuff end of next month when I have some time."
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-formation-flying-attempt
I will probably play around with this stuff end of next month when I have some time."
"Ok, Trent. I will be nice today. I was thinking about trying out the follow me feature as well. However, did you consider using two planes, one for following and the other as the lead? So basically you could fly two planes in formation."
"Maybe get a friend to drive the car... I am sure it is not legal to drive, fly, and show footage for your show on any road at the same time. I thought texting was bad."
"The follow me feature is cool. However, I am laughing at your SAFETY statement after seeing you fly, video tape, and pay a lot of attention to a laptop while driving a vehicle. Your a good example of giving UAV flying a bad name..."
"The reason why I was looking at flying with joystick was that I thought I could get more range with the 900mhz connection to the PIXHAWK than my DX8 2.4ghz tx could get. Planning to use the myflydream for a ground station and use the 5.8ghz AV and…"
"Thinking about it, makes more sense to just use the joystick for the gimbal/camera operations anyway."
"That is a sweet setup. I just got my joystick and DX8 both working. Was thinking about flying the plane with the joystick and using the DX8 to control the camera along with 3axis gimbal? Probably test that out soon."
"I was looking into longer FPV flights using solar energy to charge the batteries inflight. Lightweight solar cells and the solar charger below maybe it might work??
http://genasun.com/all-products/solar-charge-controllers/for-lithiu..."
http://genasun.com/all-products/solar-charge-controllers/for-lithiu..."
"Well, I did finally get everything working. Removed and reinstalled the latest Mission Planner. Then removed everything but the blinking light which plugs into the "switch" port off of the Pixhawk. Then connected the Pixhawk via USB to computer.…"
Good news! I have the pixhawk in my possession. Bad news! I cannot getthis thing to upload the firmware. At times I can get the USB and/orwireless comm to connect. Mission planner fails to connect at all. APMplanner connects via usb but never really…
