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Waukee, IA


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FPV, Photography, and Drone, HAM Radio


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LanMark commented on Paul's blog post Drone-maker 3D Robotics cuts jobs, refocuses on corporate market.
Mar 24, 2016
LanMark replied to yuvraj's discussion solar panel with lipo battery pack in ArduCopter User Group
"Another problem.. The power from a panel is highly variable. If someone walks by and shades your panel or even a cloud, your panel voltage will drop to nearly zero which likely will not make the lipo charger happy."
Dec 10, 2014
LanMark replied to yuvraj's discussion solar panel with lipo battery pack in ArduCopter User Group
"I don't think that charging a lipo from a 5W panel will work very well. First off the 5W is really the theoretical max. In full sun of the summer you likely won't get even 80% of that. I have a 100W panel for other reasons outside of charging lipos…"
Dec 10, 2014
LanMark commented on Stefan Gofferje's blog post Mythbusters, please help! (Open Letter)
"PixHawk should absolutely have a max altitude setting set to 400'.. Much like how other equipment you buy come with default settings. let the user turn it off and be warned of the consequences.. Otherwise our industry is doomed if someone ever does…"
May 10, 2014
LanMark commented on AKRCGUY's blog post SteadiDrone Releases NEW QU4D X With 60 Min Flight Time
"If it was aimed at the professional commercial market I don't think I would go with a quad copter.   I sure wouldn't want my very expensive cameras/sensors on a platform that can't recover from a prop failure.   I don't believe the A2 can gently…"
Feb 10, 2014
LanMark commented on AKRCGUY's blog post SteadiDrone Releases NEW QU4D X With 60 Min Flight Time
"oh the rolling case I believe is included in that price."
Feb 9, 2014
LanMark commented on AKRCGUY's blog post SteadiDrone Releases NEW QU4D X With 60 Min Flight Time
"Yeah seems like quite the jump in price.   Doesn't seem like you missed anything major."
Feb 9, 2014
LanMark commented on AKRCGUY's blog post SteadiDrone Releases NEW QU4D X With 60 Min Flight Time
"I would like to see a customer service that can actually fix a gimbal that we poorly manufactured and never worked since they shipped it. I was very not impressed with months of inability to fix their brushless gimbal.. Finally had to ship it back…"
Feb 9, 2014
LanMark replied to Bruce Jones's discussion PixHawk Out of Box Problems in ArduCopter User Group
"I think the launch of PixHawk has been bad..  seems like a problem from announcement and delays and delays and such.  I wouldn't be surprised if the announcement of it wasn't meant for the round two investors more than anything.The best course of…"
Jan 31, 2014
LanMark commented on Quadzimodo's blog post A World Breakthrough in UAV Propulsion
"Reminds me of the Lockheed Martin fuel cell UAV that they have:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/planes-uavs/lon... article also mentions the AEROPAK."
Jan 17, 2014
LanMark left a comment for James Slizewski
"didn't see your friend request.. just email me at info@agpixel.com and I will sure to get back with you."
Jan 14, 2014
LanMark commented on Drew Scott's blog post Drone Surveillance During Exams
"Totally agree with @Marius.. This is so stupid and dangerous... nothing like flying lawn mower over students heads in a confined space.. where all sorts of problems could occur.   Good thing it didn't fall out of the air and cut someone face, hands…"
Jan 10, 2014
LanMark commented on Chris Anderson's blog post FLIR intrdroduces $350 smartphone IR camera, new low-cost sensor
"Actually they look good because of that nice tiny print item at the beginning of the video that says: ‘thermal images shown for illustration purposes only.. and may have not been taken by the camera series depicted’
Which means they didn't use the…"
Jan 7, 2014
LanMark commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post NIR Images in the Makgadikgadi
"@Criro1999,  You can use AgPixel to process the NIR into NDVI as well as many other capabilities that will be coming online in the next few months."
Jan 7, 2014
LanMark commented on Chris Anderson's blog post FLIR intrdroduces $350 smartphone IR camera, new low-cost sensor
"great.. just in time for the new iPhone to come out and make this 350 dollar investment worthless :)"
Jan 7, 2014
LanMark replied to mark's discussion Merry Christmas to all Ardupilots! in ArduCopter User Group
"You mean 2014 :)"
Dec 24, 2013
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