About

Gender

Male


Location

Dayton, OH


About Me:

NEW: RFID Engineer at Franwell in flordia, more to come OLD: 3rd year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Dayton (Dayton Ohio). I'm big into robotics, Scuba, fine and martial arts. O, and I'm a heavy game modder and frequent RTS competitor.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

UAV's are huge in dayton, with Wright Patterson AFB so close by. I started a UAV club in 2009, and got on board with the AeroQuad project to compeat in the 2009 AUVSI student design competition. While we are still working to get the quad off the ground, I've since then started working at the Air Force Center For Rapid Product development under a directorate of university of dayton's research institute Center For UAV Exploitation. There, I'm working on building the arducoptor for the competition and installing fancy autopilots into 3 T-Rex 600 helis for a professors research.


Hometown:

Pataskala (Micro small town 40 clicks east of Columbus)


Activity Feed

Jonathan D Takacs replied to Robert Drone's discussion x-bee for video transmission?
"Agree with Anderson.
The data rates of these products are very prohibitive.
Don't confuse operating frequency with data rate. 
2.4 Ghz Xbee products as well as 800 Mhz products have data rates below 250kbps.
 
*At Work* we have fancy HDL code to do…"
Aug 28, 2012
Jonathan D Takacs posted a discussion
I'm attempting to transition aeroquad electrical hardware to the arducopter frame. For University of Dayton's entry in the 20xx AUVSI student design competition. So far, in shop we've been able to laser cut the parts. I haven't been able to find the…
Apr 15, 2011
Jonathan D Takacs commented on Jonathan D Takacs's photo
"Our First Aeroquad, with a solar panel attached to the top. 3.5 # total weight was a little heavy though :P."
Mar 16, 2011
Jonathan D Takacs commented on Jonathan D Takacs's photo
"Bomb disposal rig later converted to a medical delivery bot. My first exposure to autonomous navigation, This guy used magnetic strips and RFID to navigate the hospital and identify users who had access to the controlled substances inside."
Mar 16, 2011
Jonathan D Takacs posted photos
Mar 16, 2011