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Dover Plains, NY


About Me:

A software engineer with a passion in electronics


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I've been wanting to make one of these since I was a kid


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Matt Williamson commented on John Wiseman's blog post ADS-B decoding on an AR.Drone
"Amazing! Completely understated."
Apr 2, 2013
Matt Williamson replied to Colton Wingard's discussion Alt Hold
"The barometer is covered with what? If it's sealed it won't register change in pressure."
Mar 10, 2013
Matt Williamson commented on firerescue41's blog post Building New Frame From PVC Pipe
"It looks great and the price is right. How much does it weigh?"
Feb 15, 2013
Matt Williamson commented on elad orbach's blog post How to DIY a ground station
"Looks great!"
Feb 7, 2013
Matt Williamson commented on Horst Hörtner's blog post Have to share this with you...
"How the heck did you coordinate them? i.e. collision avoidance. gps doesn't seem accurate enough for this."
Jan 27, 2013
Matt Williamson commented on Peter Koppendorfer's blog post SIX2Fold the new Kopter from KAMKOP Systems
"that looks outstanding. could you give us some zoomed out photos so we can see the end result?"
Dec 31, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on John Arne Birkeland's blog post Two-Stage Copter
"and too much money"
Dec 28, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Duy Pham's blog post Change Hex to Y6
"Nice machine. Those heli pilots were AWESOME"
Dec 19, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on TheMissingRobot's blog post Has anyone considered the Wii U tablet/joystick for FPV flying purposes?
"Wifi will give you like 100m. Maybe use your laptop or other dedicated device to act as a relay"
Nov 22, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Matt Williamson's blog post MultiWii Joystick Control via XBee
"The one in the video is my old one. It's just some aluminum bar in an x configuration with an arduino mega and a 10DOF off eBay. 4 motors 1050kv turnigy 2217's. The ESCs are 30amp cheapos from hobby king.

The 10DOF was an ITG3200 based board and I…"
Nov 22, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Nick Goodey's blog post Building the Arduino Xbee Receiver
"1 more question. I was looking into making my own tx instead of using a pc joystick recently and had a hard time finding the gimbals. Where did you get your stick? I was going to break down and use the ps2 joysticks from sparkfun  but decided they…"
Nov 5, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Nick Goodey's blog post Building the Arduino Xbee Receiver
"I'm actually about to switch my setup to use an APC230 as well. I've only got the 100 meter XBees and a couple WiFly's and I'm looking to get better range. $10 is way cheap for a nano, but the extracore is still like half the size. "
Nov 5, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Nick Goodey's blog post Building the Arduino Xbee Receiver
"Hey looks similar to my little project :) http://aimatt.com/2012/08/02/diy-rc-receiver-serial-ppm/
BTW, you might want to think about using an Extracore (you can find them on tindie.com) for less tahn $11 and they are much smaller than the nano."
Nov 4, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Mago's blog post Italian Drone helps police to unveil marijuana farm!
"It's a pity it's being used for something so petty."
Sep 27, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Kirill's blog post Return to Launch flight mode in SmartAP
"Yeah it is a really nice module. I guess you have to wait for the GPS to lock anyway ;)

The time it takes to set up the network is due to negotiating a private network IP, I think, e.g. 169.x.x.x and you may be able to shorten it by setting a…"
Sep 10, 2012
Matt Williamson commented on Kirill's blog post Return to Launch flight mode in SmartAP
"Hey Kiril, nice work. I see the WiFly module on there. Are you using that for telemetry?"
Sep 10, 2012
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