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"Compared to (even) a grad student salary, that MicroPilot is dirt cheap."
"Have you considered joining a model airplane club? The one in my town walked me through the process of learning to fly and even provided me with a trainer plane to fly with the instructor (but all the instructors worked at Hobbico so that might have…"
"Congrats!"
"Anyone know a good way to get helium? I see target sell tanks online for 50 bucks, has anyone tried other approaches? I'm going to see what sorts of prices I get at the welding shops.
Also, how often do the envelopes need topping off or helium…"
Also, how often do the envelopes need topping off or helium…"
"Very cool. Too bad my landlord looks down on painting the room to look like a zebra. :("
"I ordered mine monday, looks like the lead is a couple of weeks, but I'll post when I get it and put it together."
"Oh, anyone else notice the setup fee (10 bucks)? Anyone wanna buy together to avoid all of us paying the same fee? I wanna put an order in quick (by Monday) so please PM me if you want one and we can sort it out.
Also, in ordering the Boarduino…"
Also, in ordering the Boarduino…"
Hi, I've been lurking long enough and want to build myself one of these blimps. First step is buying the envelope and gondola. I saw that earlier versions used the Plantraco but the newer version uses the Tri-Turbo model off the shark.The shark…
"I took an Artificial Intelligence class back in undergrad (got a lousy grade so take my opinions with a grain of salt). The routines are usually dead simple to implement. It's a question of getting a really good training set to reproduce the model.…"
"Wow. That's really impressive. Those Piccolo systems are really neat."
"CRRCsim is a free flider simulator that does thermals. If you look at the Charles River Radio Control (or whatever the CRRC stands for) website, they list some other resources for simulation."
"Wow. This is a very neat project. Need beta testers?"
"That bottom one is so small, it looks like the same sort of scale as my T-Hawk. Very neat. Thanks for the report!"
"I hear you. Once I had to do a demo of a piece of custom computer hardware and it worked great until the dry run.
Fortunately, we had brought in a big group of grad students to heckle us and we held it in the same room that we were holding the…"
Fortunately, we had brought in a big group of grad students to heckle us and we held it in the same room that we were holding the…"
