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Ultra high speed battery charging

Hello Everybody,

Can anybody advise me if there is a method to charge LiPo batteries really quick (less than a minute, instead of tens of minutes)?

Is there any other battery type, other than LiPo batteries that can be used on RC planes and can be char

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Vision based real-time localization system

Does anybody worked on the position estimation of a hovering UAV (quadrotor, helicopter etc.) using external multiple webcams+PC and a custom OpenCV (or MATLAB) application in indoor environment ?

(Yes, I'm trying to make a poorman's version of expens

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Altitude hold control loop

1 -  How to mix data from ultrasound range sensor, altimeter (barometric pressure sensor) and GPS to better estimate the altitude of a UAV platform? 

2 - How to use the altitude estimate (from question 1) to create PID control loop for altitude hold  

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Mods for heavy EasyStar

Hello Everybody,I want to fly multiple batteries and video gear (approx 1kg total weight) on my EasyStar for longest possible time. Can you recommend which motor and propeller to use on my EasyStar? Did you ever fly EasyStar with 1kg (or more)? If yo

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Realtime video stabilization

I want to record video downlink with a video digitiser connected to USB port.Does anybody know a freeware (or opensource) video stabilization software that runs on a laptop computer and process digitized video for stabilization ?Or do you know if the

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