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Engineering professor who teaches rapid prototyping and development projectsthat often include UAVs and UGVs


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John Locke commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Texas drone bill clears use by police, not civlians
"I think you should read the bill.  It looks to me like all UAV pictures/video of private property is forbidden UNLESS you fall within one of the exemptions.  Flying your drone in your neighborhood for fun?  The images you take are now illegal. …"
May 30, 2013
John Locke replied to Jacob Marble's discussion Eclipse configuration for ArduPilotMega
"I have the same issue.  I was able to get part of this to go away by 'verifying' an example project in Arduino, but now I'm getting the 'No rule to make target "all". Stop.'  This is in the Libraries Project FYI.  What's weird is I can open the…"
Jul 23, 2011
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Jul 13, 2011
John Locke posted a discussion
How are people setting up thier radios when flying traditional helis using arducopter?  In the setup it says to use Airplane/Acro mode, and connect channel 3 from the receiver into the ardupilot and then use channel 7 to connect directly to the…
Jul 11, 2011
John Locke posted a discussion
In the manual for the ArduCopter Helicopter, it recommends mounting the magnometer components up, pins forward but every other reference has it mounted components down, pins forward.  I have installed my magneometer as recomended via the Heli…
Jul 8, 2011
John Locke posted a discussion
I'm having trouble getting my swash plate set up using Arducopter 2_0_33.  I have run through all of the setup with no real problems but when I try to setup the swash plate it doesn't work. While I'm in CLI, I go setup->heliI get the display of the…
Jul 5, 2011