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Zurich
About Me:
Swiss geek with interests in rc helicopters. I fly rc since 1983 and I'm addicted to rc helicopters. Sadly poor time due to family duties. I grow up in the radio shack times (actually we had someting similar based in italy) and am amazed of the variety of stuff you can find...
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
A friend of mine asked me if I can build a drone for surveillance of a bigger hunting resort in italy. I want to reproduce some drone typed the swiss army is actually using. I already programm arduino and .net boards in my profession.
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"CTR is a controlled airspace zone around an airport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_zone"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_zone"
".... forgot to say: Great job!"
"Uh!? Swiss section isn't accurate:
- There is no height limit outside CTR's. Within a CTR it's 150m.
- Don't fly closer to 5 Km from an (official) airport. Otherwise a permission is needed.
See:…"
- There is no height limit outside CTR's. Within a CTR it's 150m.
- Don't fly closer to 5 Km from an (official) airport. Otherwise a permission is needed.
See:…"
"Last week one guy was killed by a GAUI X7 here in Switzerland. Someone found him dead on a field with the crashed heli close to him. Left a wife and 2 little chilldren. The story was on newspapers for days here and now there is the usual…"
"I know that place. It is Plons close to Sargans in Switzerland."
"@Ruwan. Actually I use some parts of it in another project so it's "off duty". But I consider to build bigger version with a 7" monitor and a micro Win7 PC for ground station software."
"as said. With an insulated box it won't go below 0 Celsius. Here's the llink to my project: http://swisshab.blogspot.com/
you can see a graph of temperature too"
you can see a graph of temperature too"
"I launched a HAB Balloon with an arduino board (as camera controller) and some cameras up to 22'500m. I had -53C external and +9C internal temperature. I used a simple foam box (about 1 cm thick... a box used in Italy for fresh mozzarella's) and an…"
"Any Idea why this happens? Maybe the use of no-brand ESC's may cause this problem."
I'll quote a problem reportet by an user at the arducopter project page (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Props_2)"I'm having trouble with the motor test. I can not seem to get thing to behave as expected with either X or +…
"Ok. Maybe this will help someone to give my an idea if I fried my APM and/or oilpan.
- I performed some hand tests and the IMU test. I noticed that the accelerometer values are really slow.
- During the hand test the quad still wants to compensate…"
- I performed some hand tests and the IMU test. I noticed that the accelerometer values are really slow.
- During the hand test the quad still wants to compensate…"
"Uh? Nobody here? Any idea why this happens?"
Hi there. After I set up my Arducopter I had a tilt/flip problem at take off. I followed the troubleshooting guide (calibrated the ESC and so on) but I still have the problem. I noticed that the "motors" test in CLI is not as expected. I can get…
"The drone is a swiss produced version of a IAF drone from mid 90's. As far as I know the color is a kind of covering film that can be taken off in case of military use. This drone is used for border surveillance and sometimes in larger sport events…"
"Are the alligators from the AMA?"
