About

Gender

Male


Location

San Marcos, CA


About Me:

Flew many kinds of RC aircraft for about 30+ years ( Planes, Helis, Wings etc etc ). Software developer for 26 years. Tinkered with many different embedded platforms for the past couple of years. Started a couple video surveillance software companies. Want to turn my RC helicopters into mobile video surveillance platforms ;)


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in learning how UAV systems work


Hometown:

San Diego, CA


Activity Feed

Mark Lewis commented on Pål Møst's blog post Quadcopter performing visual guided autonomous landing.
"Nice!"
Jan 30, 2014
Mark Lewis replied to Steve Dolinsky's discussion Making progress when solving a MAVlink issue, but I've hit a wall. Can DIY Drones offer any insight?
"are you sending binary data or ascii data ?  perhaps the data being sent is binary and will show up as gibberish ?"
Jan 14, 2014
Mark Lewis replied to Mike Mac's discussion Windows 8
"I'm using windows8 for my development and it seems to be working fine.  However, I'd definitely recommend you take a look at http://www.classicshell.net/ to get your machine looking like a regular windows machine.  That new windows8 interface is a…"
Jan 13, 2014
Mark Lewis replied to Clifford Davis's discussion I have 2 traditional rc helis should I make them drones or go with a purpose built? I'm new to this...
"Ford

I'm in the same boat as you.  I have a T-rex 550e and also a Bergen gasser ( 26cc gasoline engine ).  I'm thinking of working with the smaller T-rex first, but I'd love to get the gasser going too eventually.  I just bought the arduino board…"
Jan 4, 2014