Gender
Male
About
Location
Manitoba
About Me:
Farmer in MB
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm interested in ways to make use of pixhawk/apm rover to automate farm machinery. Id love to be able to turn old reliable tractors into hi tech robots on the cheap.
Hometown:
Killarney
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"No one is more surprised than me how it all came together. A lot of credit has to be given to the other guys I work with on the farm. They had some good ideas as we were working and they really picked up the slack because as you can imagine I…"
"I'll keep you posted. Still figuring out a couple things and doing some testing. I'll know a lot more in 4-6 weeks"
"Power Shift will have it's challenges for sure but it should be possible. The best place to start is to buy a pixhawk and an RC car and put that together and try and get it to work. It wont cost an arm and a leg and at least you will have…"
"The final design is really starting to take form check out the latest video I posted with an overview of how things look in the cab. If anyone with a JD7930 tractor is interested in doing the install themselves let me know. I'm prepared to offer a…"
"I checked out your videos! Very impressive, nice work.
I have only tried to control the transmission through the CANBUS with no success. I believe PTO and hydraulics should be doable on a modern tractor, there are companies doing it but I have…"
I have only tried to control the transmission through the CANBUS with no success. I believe PTO and hydraulics should be doable on a modern tractor, there are companies doing it but I have…"
"Thanks for sharing Al. Looks great!"
"You armed the Rover and put it into guided mode before using simple_goto? My rc car needs more than 20% throttle to start moving. Once it is going I can back it off. Maybe try increasing throttle a bit."
"Hey Eric stop by anytime if you are in the area."
"I always change the mode to guided first and then use simple_goto()"
"Thanks Guy! Post some videos when you get something going. Cotton is such a neat crop."
"Hey Darius that product is for guiding a tractor in straight lines while a person is in the cab. I'm also controlling the transmission and communicating new commands over telemetry, right now it is specific to the grain cart but new uses are coming."
"I'll be doing the conversion myself and providing ongoing tech support."
Hey DIY Drones here is a video highlighting my work over the last year. I've decided to try and start a company automating tractors. This is the first video highlighting my work. I'll be showing it an agricultural trade show that starts tomorrow,…
"Here's a video of my tractor on a snowblower. Nothing of technical value here at all but I had a lot of fun. Merry Christmas!"
"I really like the changes made in 2.0! I'm using it write the software for interacting with my tractor. The code is here https://github.com/mattdreimer/AutonomousGrainCart"
"Here's a very brief video showing the working prototype I have made for streaming engine data. The code on the arduino is up on github. The code on the pixhawk and the modified mavlink libraries will be up eventually as well."
