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Male


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San Antonio, FL


About Me:

i make things


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I like to build AGVs


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Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Telemetry kit back in stock
"@Thomas,
I see no level shifting on the DOUT of the Adafruit adapter, http://www.ladyada.net/images/xbee/xbee11sch.png which is Bill's concern. I did not check the Parallax one."
Jun 17, 2011
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Help wanted: great photos for the front page of DIY Drones
"I made an Autonomous Ground Vehicle with an Arduino. Much like the ardupilot setup, i could easily do it with an ardupilot if I had one. http://diydrones.com/photo/my-agv?xg_source=activity"
Jan 26, 2011
Patrick Mccabe posted photos
Jan 26, 2011
Patrick Mccabe posted a discussion
My ESC on the AGV says do not use a battery above 3500mah (something like that maybe a bit greater. I peeled the sticker off already)  with it. (there was a little sticker under the battery that said this, i took it off a while ago). Well this…
Oct 17, 2010
Patrick Mccabe replied to Patrick Mccabe's discussion RC receiver
"wow old thread popping up again :)"
Oct 13, 2010
Patrick Mccabe replied to Joel's discussion GPS for UGV
"I did this with a EM406 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tci2MOLHdL8, i still use the same GPS for my new off road UGV."
Sep 29, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Ritchie's blog post Aileron modification
"Why 8 blog posts to show modifications?"
Sep 4, 2010
Patrick Mccabe posted a blog post
Yup, it now has 2 platforms instead of that plastic truck shell.Here is a picture to remind you what it looked likeHere are some photos of the building of the dual platform. Its made from lexan, each platform measuring 12"x5.5". Holes were drilled…
Aug 22, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Scenes from the ArduCopter factory
"First the un-boxing and now this. Your killing us Chris! Upcoming months will be interesting. Very nice!"
Aug 13, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Parrot, we love you, but is this really the message you want to send?
"I think you are going to get a lot of worse things happening with it than what the video shows."
Aug 13, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Parrot, we love you, but is this really the message you want to send?
"I think we are taking a RC helicopter toy too seriously (yeah i know its a quadrotor but your normal shopper will think its a helicopter). Does anyone actually consider this as much more? its not a UAV, its not autonomous. Its made of cheap foam and…"
Aug 12, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Parrot, we love you, but is this really the message you want to send?
"No i think those are perfect videos because this is probably going to be bought for kids. I mean in the end it is a toy and with fake missiles and ways to battle in 2 player mode, this product is for kids like a little RC helicopter a parent would…"
Aug 12, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 8: The egg-drop round!
"Could people use quail eggs?"
Aug 10, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"Personally i have seen my thoughts change over time. When i was a newbie to micro-controllers, i was fine and happy to pay for a $30 this or $20 that. But now as i start to have my boards made in china for cheap i realize how much i could save doing…"
Aug 4, 2010
Patrick Mccabe replied to Ricardo Madera's discussion Flashing the bootloader?
"I never was able to burn the bootloader on a atmega using the Arduino IDE. So i used AVR studio and found the bootloader hex file in the arduino folder and uploaded that and it worked fine on a atmega. You have to set the fuses yourself using AVR…"
Aug 1, 2010
Patrick Mccabe commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3-Round 8: The egg-drop round!
"@Gary, I think we will get more ground vehicles with time but its not fun only having Sparkfun's competition at which most of us cant make."
Jul 29, 2010
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