About

Location

Melbourne, Victoria


About Me:

Aerospace Engineering Student at RMIT University. Completed 3rd (penultimate) year in 2012.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

My primary skill is airframe design. UAV's are great because there is freedom to try unconventional designs and to flight test them for very little cost. See my 2nd year MAV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KTYLszx6as&feature=plcp


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Martin Burston posted a discussion
Hi All,So my APM 2.5, which was arming and which I had configured nicely only last week, now won't arm in mission planner and can't be configured. Weirdly enough, though, when I hit the connect button MAVLINK has no problem getting all of the values…
Feb 16, 2013
Martin Burston posted a discussion
Hi,I received my APM 2.5 a couple days ago and followed the instructions to install mission planner here. Windows didn't locate the drivers automatically so I went to device manger, which shows Arduino Mega 2560 (COM7) with a yellow symbol next to…
Jan 3, 2013
Martin Burston commented on Martin Burston's blog post Experimental Airframe - Goldschmied Pusher
"Yes, sizes are in mm, Vlad.
Thanks for the links Dave! I have been looking for that one! Yes I think you wouldn't be able to mount an external camera gimbal on this if you want to minimise drag.
In answer to most other questions about this concept,…"
Dec 3, 2012
Martin Burston posted a blog post
Hi all,I've only recently become part of the diy drones community and already I've learned a lot about amateur UA operations.As my first contribution here I thought I'd share a design that I put together this morning based on some old research on…
Nov 30, 2012