About

Gender

Male


Location

Fremont, CA


About Me:

I am a Mechanical Engineering Student at San Jose State University in San Jose, CA.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am currently working on my senior design project called Incredible HLQ (Heavy Lift Quadcopter). HLQ is a gas powered quadcopter able to autonamously retrieve and deliver 50 pounds of payload.


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Nick Conover commented on Gabe's blog post Autonomous gas powered heavy lift quadcopter we are calling HLQ
"Chrisa,
We sure are. We keep our facebook page updated fairly (maybe more like somewhat) regularly, and we have tons of pictures up on our website at incrediblehlq.com
We ran into some manufacturing problems that we are just beginning to recover…"
Oct 23, 2013
Nick Conover commented on Gabe's blog post Autonomous gas powered heavy lift quadcopter we are calling HLQ
"@UAV_Enthusiast: First, thanks for clearing up the terminology. We initially started by looking at aitplane props which are all rated with pitches since they are constant, so sometime I accidentally use the wrong term. Second, while changing the AOA…"
Jan 29, 2013
Nick Conover commented on Gabe's blog post Autonomous gas powered heavy lift quadcopter we are calling HLQ
"I want to mention also, that the rendering attached is a somewhat old concept we were working with. There have been some considerable changes since, and we are working on getting an updated design and rendering. We'll be sure to post it as soon as…"
Jan 29, 2013
Nick Conover commented on Gabe's blog post Autonomous gas powered heavy lift quadcopter we are calling HLQ
"@Chase: Yeah, one of our team mates brought up that point. I'm not sure we will be able to incorporate it since a) as you said, we aren't sure how effective it would be, b) we probably won;t have enough time to incorporate the programming required…"
Jan 29, 2013
Nick Conover commented on Gabe's blog post Autonomous gas powered heavy lift quadcopter we are calling HLQ
"There are two main reasons behind the two engine concept.
First, HLQ will autonomously dock to its payload which will be immediately under the center of the frame, and would block an engine from being centrally located for balance. We had to move…"
Jan 29, 2013
Nick Conover commented on Gabe's blog post Autonomous gas powered heavy lift quadcopter we are calling HLQ
"Hi folks,
My name is Nick Conover, and I am the team lead for the Incredible HLQ project. Gabe asked me to hop in here and help him field some questions. Neither of us thought there would be quite this much immediate response to the project. I am…"
Jan 29, 2013