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Matthew Dickinson commented on Paul's blog post FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters
"yes, there were daily visits to sites. As someone who works for an organization that received a letter - i had visits in 2013 to my site from the FAA:
4/14/34/54/74/94/134/144/204/215/25/127/27/3 (a lot on this date)7/87/177/257/31amcproxy.faa.gov -…"
Sep 6, 2014
Matthew Dickinson commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Model aircraft owners drawn into privacy debate on drones
"Missouri have an anti-drone bill too in the works.. http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/perf/HB0046P.htm"
Apr 10, 2013
Matthew Dickinson replied to Oliver's discussion APM 2.5 Firmware Upload Verify Fail
"For me, whenever I try updating firmware using mission planner running inside a Windows 8 or XP virtual machine using VMware fusion, It fails - I find I have to go find a 'real' PC to get it to update."
Feb 17, 2013
Matthew Dickinson replied to Matthew Dickinson's discussion No data displayed on MinimOSD when using TBS core
"turns out the camera i was using was set to PAL, and this was confusing the OSD. Why it worked when using a separate battery, i know not..."
Jan 20, 2013
Matthew Dickinson replied to Matthew Dickinson's discussion No data displayed on MinimOSD when using TBS core
"Here's a rudimentary connection explanation and some further symptoms:
camera > core > minimOSD video in > VTX
If i disconnect the camera, then i get data appearing on the video feed - as soon as i plug the camera, the data disappears but i get the…"
Jan 20, 2013
Matthew Dickinson posted a discussion
Hi,I have a TBS Discovery frame, and have recently added a TBS core to power the camera, TX and MinimOSD.I have the two solder blobs added to the MinimOSD, so i'm not powering via the APM port (the +5v from APM isn't even connected).When i power it…
Jan 20, 2013
Matthew Dickinson posted a discussion
Hi,tried on 1.2.27 and 1.2.28 on WinXP and Win8 running under VMWare Fusion.tried on 1.2.27 and 1.2.28 on Windows 7 physical machibne,I'm unable to download logs - each time i hit screens similar to the below - any…
Jan 4, 2013
Matthew Dickinson replied to Yaniv Eliash's discussion Communication
"A project (http://dronelab.missouri.edu/projects/eon-underwater-remotely-opera...) that we did a few years ago was building a ROV - we used an ethernet cable (50') that was zip-tied to a lightweight steel cable. This allowed us to use ethernet…"
Dec 28, 2012
Matthew Dickinson replied to John Dell's discussion Naza M vs. APM 2
"Here's some photos from inside the NAZA GPS unit - it's interesting that the tops of the ICs (chips) have been "etched" to hide any markings..."
Dec 27, 2012
Matthew Dickinson replied to Matthew Dickinson's discussion minimosd requires xbee to connect to get (accurate) telemetry data
"I should have added... power cycling OSD doesn't resolve it, disconnecting telemetry data just gives the "waiting for heartbeat", and once connected, the data is either absent (or wrong).."
Dec 15, 2012
Matthew Dickinson posted a discussion
Hi,at initial APM/OSD/xbee power-on, the OSD gets some data from the telemetry but this isn't completely accurate. Once I "connect" the Mission Planner with an xbee on my laptop to the APM, the telemetry starts to display all the data (and…
Dec 15, 2012