Gender
Male
About
Location
Stony Plain Alberta
About Me:
RC Flyer and plane builder I was a Robotics teacher using the Heathkit Hero robots Was a radio technician for Motorola for 10 years. Have a diploma in Electrical Controls Engineering Technology. I have many threads on RC Groups under "Larry Baraniuk"
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Interested in designing planes that will fly autonomously to different waypoints at desired altitudes and speeds
Hometown:
Temporarily living in Stony Plain Alberta
Activity Feed
" FLIR in a Phantom in November.I know what I want for Christmas. "
"I have a collection of Canon powershot cameras. I was thinking of using the 4 trigger outputs of the pixhawk to trigger 4 different cameras. I would have 2 vertical down cameras that have 75 % overlap and the other 2 will be aiming at opposite 60 %…"
"Ya , I go back to the days when computer clocking speeds were measured in kilohertz. Now a days , I need an Octa processor with 30 gig of Ram and a trillion bytes of memory. And I'd still probably loose my patients and want something faster."
"The new cameras these days don't want to get involved with GPS tracking/ tagging , probably because they,ve trended over to WIFI connectability.
Right now I'm trolling the pawn shops looking for older Canon Powershots S100 , Canon sx230 or olympus…"
Right now I'm trolling the pawn shops looking for older Canon Powershots S100 , Canon sx230 or olympus…"
"Right now I'm trying out Agisoft and i don't need Geotagging but it takes a long time to process 500 pictures but I want to try out drone deploy. Maybe an on board management processor would be a more efficient way to go."
"It's on my wish list to have somebody make up a Cannon Hackers (CHDK) code to Geo tag each picture but I think its time to just buy a camera that does Geotagging.
The Canon Powershot SX230 is worth trying to find at the pawn shops.…"
The Canon Powershot SX230 is worth trying to find at the pawn shops.…"
"I would make sure that focus is fixed and that other settings are not set to automatic.Then I would point both cameras at the same clock that measures fractions of seconds in order to measure the delays between each camera. If the delay is…"
"I'm just using cheap LED TV monitors bought from Best Buy. The monitors run off of 12 volts."
"I would tighten the flight path. Or fly 2 laps of the flight path. I combined the pictures from 3 flights and got good results.To get more overlap I was thinking of using 2 cameras mounted on the ends of a 6 ft boom. The cameras don't have to be…"
"My first attempt at using 3D photo mosaic to process my Aerial Photos that I shot with my Skywalker drone. I'm trying out a demo the Agisoft Photoscan software. The graphics resolution is low compared to what it could really could be. Just need a…"
" I'm just new to Geo tagging and noticed that Ground Control Points are necessary to get accuracy when using Pix4D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylc_HSev3a4"
"Here is my upgraded base station that is more compact and is completely powered a 3 cell lipo battery"
"a 10 minute flight captures about 160 acres taking AP pictures at around 350 ft above ground, with the Skywalker averaging around 40 mph."
I've been using my Skywalker AP setup for the past 3 years and it's been working quite well.My Skywalker is combination of a Hobby King fiberglass fuselage that uses the BEVRC wings and horizontal stabilizer. I use Powershot cameras that use Cannon…
" Some pictures and a video of the Horten 229 drag rudders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYicYVwu3mM"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYicYVwu3mM"
"I was just using some cheap spoilers just for demonstration purposes. The attached picture shows a drag rudder mechanism that I might use which is a scaled down drag rudders used on the Horten 229 Batwing .The following video shows a simple…"
