Gender

Male

Location

Llandysul

About Me:

I am now after several changes in my career type, medicine at Uni, accountancy and now part time qualified electrician in the UK, also retired if that means anything different! I enjoy learning and had started to learn more about a life time (62 yrs) interest in electronics aiming at robotics. But this has taken another swing into learning python and C for arduino. So several Robotic projects sitting on my bench have now led me to drones. Needless to say my wife's 60th birthday present to me "a basic drone" which got lost a month later on my stag do! has now progressed to a Walker 250 which I crashed on take off and burnt an engine out on wet grass to a Mavic Pro with Epson Moverio glasses. Again needless to say first test in my office (metal barn and no GPS receiption) ended up with the drone taking off to about 1 metre then drifting left into my very old and valuable model of the Golden Hind, cutting up sails and beheading the hind!

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

So now I have progressed back a step. The Mavic Pro and Epson Moverio are unbelieveable! I use them to fly around my 50 acres of land and check on the sheep, currently lambing. The step back was to come across an Udemy Course, "Make an open source drone " by Dr Peter Dalmaris. I need more parts to upgrade the basic flight controller (no longer available ) to Pixhawk. Hence on this iste to try and get insite into which frequency to use for Telemetry in UK. I think 433Mhz is the answer? My aim is to make a rescue drone that can search for heat at night in woodland (following my father in law getting lost at 92 with the dog in our local woods - we ended up with 8 police, two of which were dog handlers, 2 teams of mountain rescue - no mountains were we live, who had not slept for a day and travelled 50 plus miles to get to us, paramedics and the air-sea rescue helicopter! The overal cost to find him, lost in the undergrowth at 3am in the morning was about £5,000!). So a drone that could do the same at a fraction of the cost would be a great achievement.

Hometown:

New Quay, West Wales. 52.2155° N, 4.3591° W