I have done some redesign work on the payload for a semi-autonomous blimp. An Android smartphone is going to connect to the motor and shaft encoder (so I know if a drive belt slips off the motor and the propelled stops going when the motor is
I want to build a remote-controlled blimp UAV. In terms of control, it will have a Via Epia V10000 motherboard running Ubuntu Linux. The motherboard will have a webcam plugged in to send pictures back to base (I'm thinking of powering it via a