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Flown/built helicopters for a while. Interested in building FPV search and recon based helis.


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Josh Potter commented on Melih Karakelle's blog post New DroneThermal - Smallest Thermal Camera for Drones
"Look awesome and the price is reasonable too!"
Feb 12, 2016
Josh Potter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM support for ADS-B air-traffic control receiver now in beta
"Wow that's fantastic."
Nov 25, 2015
Josh Potter commented on Brendan Jacobs's blog post Watch: APM-powered MIT Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles at 30 MPH
"So it just a small ARM based CPU doing the computing for the collision avoidance?"
Nov 3, 2015
Josh Potter commented on David Anders's blog post Clip the wings of drone cowboys?
""Shouldn't responsibility start with the manufacturers and marketing? "No, personal responsibility is the job of the person, not the company or the state."
Sep 8, 2015
Josh Potter commented on Brian Martin's blog post FLIR UP'S THE ANTE!!
"206X156 is flyable but how to get that an android/IOS application's image into an RF video feed?"
Jul 13, 2015
Josh Potter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Tandem Heli flies autonomously with Pixhawk
"That's really neat."
Jun 29, 2015
Josh Potter commented on Dave Giles's blog post Woman Who Attacked Drone Photographer for Being a ‘Pervert’ May Have Charges Dropped
"It's not just assault, it's assaulting a minor.  Why did they not throw the book at her?"
Mar 10, 2015
Josh Potter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post FAA study finds trained pilots *worse* at operating drones
""PIPFA, "Pilot Interfering with a Perfectly Flying Aircraft" !"

That's gold."
Jan 15, 2015
Josh Potter commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post DJI T600 Inspire - Hobbyking
"Looks cool.  I think it's overpriced apple tier "Jus Werks" but if I had a ton of extra cash I would buy one."
Nov 14, 2014
Josh Potter commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post No hiding behind AC 91-57 anymore
"Wow the Hollywood UAS requirements started out really sensible and just went full nuts."
Oct 10, 2014
Josh Potter replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Richard, I think right now it's specific to MP."
Oct 3, 2014
Josh Potter replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Randy,

Yes I was trying to descend and full throttle down in alt-hold when I accidently switched to stabilize mode however I went back to full throttle with what I thought was more than enough attitude to spare.  Unless an ESC failed, I think this…"
Oct 3, 2014
Josh Potter replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"I had a crash here while about 30 meters up. The quad tipped to the left while descending in alt-hold mode and could never fully recover.  I don't see a voltage problem, and the failsafe was triggered because I had turned the RX off earlier in the…"
Oct 2, 2014
Josh Potter replied to Jeffrey Scott Atkins's discussion Naza Fly Away
"The new autotune feature on APM code is nothing short of amazing.  Getting a solid setup is much simpler than it used to be with the APM code."
Oct 1, 2014
Josh Potter commented on Rob_Lefebvre's blog post Arducopter Flies Gas Powered Helicopter
"Sorry to hear about the crash, but you took away some good information that will make things better for everyone in the future."
Sep 22, 2014
Josh Potter commented on Rob_Lefebvre's blog post Arducopter Flies Gas Powered Helicopter
"I've always wanted to do a gas heli with arducopter.  You solve so many problems at once, flight time, payload, etc.  Amazing work well done!"
Sep 21, 2014
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