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Marv2097 commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Liverpool police make first UK UAS arrest
"Quite ironic how the police didnt even know the rules on this. Not really supprising ..."
Feb 16, 2010
Marv2097 commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Liverpool police make first UK UAS arrest
"The police trailled the use of quad copters back in 2007 at the V festival. See the links below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-476748/Police-use-re...

http://www.yrtk.org/secret-squirrel/drones/

I wonder what regulations the…"
Feb 11, 2010
Marv2097 commented on Riccardo Kuebler's blog post Acromaster as UAVDevBoard platform
"Nice work Ric! good to see what the UAV Dev board is capable of.

Marv"
Feb 4, 2010
Marv2097 commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Autopilot brownies
"Thats not good Chris, and those blue PCBs looked so nice in your previous post about them. Oh well hope you get your oven sorted..."
Jan 19, 2010
Marv2097 replied to Nathan's discussion Why not use the Wii IMU?
"Hi Nathan, the standard Wiimote only contains a triple axis accelerometer (MMA7260Q) and no gyros. I am not sure on the motion+. Checkout the link from sparkfun showing its internals."
Jan 13, 2010
Marv2097 commented on Chris Anderson's blog post This is why we picked Arduino--it's taking over the world!
"Im based in the UK and until the last couple of months I could get free samples of most parts very quickly. As this is not currently available I purchase them from Microchip direct and find they arrive quickly, there is also RS and Farnell who stock…"
Dec 30, 2009
Marv2097 commented on Chris Anderson's blog post This is why we picked Arduino--it's taking over the world!
"Its hard to compare Aduino to Microhip, comparing AVR's to PICs and the PIC is far easier to get started in IMHO. I started in assembly and bought a cheap kit to start programming. Much easier than I have found AVRs to be. All the PIC tools I use…"
Dec 30, 2009
Marv2097 commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New Open Source brushless motor controller
"Its good to see more and more opensource projects like this. It seems quite similar to the mikrokopters ESCs, these are AVR based using I2C as the control protocol and the source code is available. The microchip website has a good application note…"
Dec 29, 2009