About

Gender

Male


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


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Larry Baraniuk replied to ActionDrone's discussion New setup for 3D Mapping and nadir photogrammetry - help please in Terrain/Surface Mapping
" FLIR in a Phantom in November.I know what I want for Christmas. "
Apr 13, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Roger Monongo's discussion High efficiency mapping missions for low budget projects with less than 60 euros equipment in Terrain/Surface Mapping
"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 %…"
Apr 13, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Thomas Stanley-Jones's discussion In flight picture management in Terrain/Surface Mapping
"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."
Apr 11, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to ActionDrone's discussion New setup for 3D Mapping and nadir photogrammetry - help please in Terrain/Surface Mapping
"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…"
Apr 11, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Thomas Stanley-Jones's discussion In flight picture management in Terrain/Surface Mapping
"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."
Apr 10, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Thomas Stanley-Jones's discussion In flight picture management in Terrain/Surface Mapping
"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.…"
Apr 8, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Thomas Stanley-Jones's discussion Sync Images of Canon Cameras in Terrain/Surface Mapping
"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…"
Apr 6, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Larry Baraniuk's discussion Skywalker AP drone
"I'm just using cheap LED TV monitors bought from Best Buy. The monitors run off of 12 volts."
Feb 1, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Eric Coronel's discussion Agisoft issues
"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…"
Jan 30, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Larry Baraniuk's discussion Skywalker AP drone
"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…"
Jan 29, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Ar Jay Te's discussion Inaccurate Geotagged Images (Mission Planner)
" 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"
Jan 27, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Larry Baraniuk's discussion Skywalker AP drone
"Here is my upgraded base station that is more compact and is completely powered  a 3 cell lipo battery"
Jan 27, 2016
Larry Baraniuk replied to Larry Baraniuk's discussion Skywalker AP drone
"a 10 minute flight  captures about 160 acres taking AP pictures at  around 350 ft above ground, with the Skywalker averaging around 40 mph."
Jan 25, 2016
Larry Baraniuk posted a discussion
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…
Jan 24, 2016
Larry Baraniuk commented on Larry Baraniuk's blog post Arduino Controlled Drag Rudder For Flying Wings
" Some pictures and a video of the Horten 229 drag rudders



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYicYVwu3mM"
Jan 5, 2016
Larry Baraniuk commented on Larry Baraniuk's blog post Arduino Controlled Drag Rudder For Flying Wings
"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…"
Jan 4, 2016
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