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NSW


About Me:

I am Simon Jardine CEO of Aerobot in Australia. You ain't see anything yet!!!


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Home of the FPV God master of the Unflyable ;-)


Hometown:

Northern NSW


Activity Feed

Quadrocopter commented on yannis's blog post Lightweight 3D Printed Endurance Quadcopter
"Nice work Yannis !!!!
Hey Tommy, I am also interested in your sub 250gram achieving over 1 hour flight time :-)"
Jul 25, 2018
Quadrocopter commented on Kyle's blog post NextGen Quiet High Endurance Heavy Lift MultiRotor
"When a multi-copter flies forwards the amps are reduced, a Multi-copter is less efficient in hover.
Using such large props comes with more problems, the hardest part is slowing the props down, with such size and mass of the prop. Stabilisation is…"
Jul 14, 2016
Quadrocopter commented on Gary McCray's blog post Really, really stupid idea of the month, maybe the whole year!- - Drone attack Eagles!
"I agree with Rana, beautiful creatures being put intentionally into harms way.
:-("
Feb 1, 2016
Quadrocopter commented on Reuben's blog post Why are some ESC's only rated to 3s or 4s Lipos ?
"You can run those HV's at 12S  :-)
Afro's are bulletproof, have quite a few machines running them, those slims are my personal favourite...
#timecoprules ;-)"
Jan 31, 2016
Quadrocopter commented on PX4's blog post A detailed look at Pixracer
"Brilliant !!
Boards are getting smaller and more powerful day by day :-)
Keep it up.
Simon"
Jan 17, 2016
Quadrocopter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post World Championship skier almost hit by crashing drone
"My bet is he's flying DJI and the IMU failed....
I would put money on it :-)

Simon"
Dec 22, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on jlcortex's blog post Successful flight test of hybrid gas+electric VTOL UAV: HYBRiX
"@Rob, yip misleading for sure..... We get 90 minutes now with U8 motors 30 inch props and a Lipo Ion cell :-)"
Nov 18, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on Chris Anderson's blog post VTOL FireFLY6 now available with APM-based autonomy built-in
"I too am confused...
Code for VTOL?
Or is it just mixing servos outputs to rotate motors?
I like given credit where credit is due....but..... ?"
Nov 16, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on Víctor Mayoral's blog post Erle Robotics "azul" for Erle-Brain 2.0
"A flying Linux box !!!
Excellent. :-)"
Nov 8, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on Bernie Hoffman's blog post New Heavy Lift Prototype from Autonomous Avionics
"Those ESC's will get hot, here in Australia it's coming to summer. Without airflow and lifting a payload it's going to heat up :-)"
Nov 6, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Civil Penalty Against SkyPan International for Allegedly Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Operations
"My opinion... What a load of BS.
No person or property was damaged, yeah they broke some rules, I understand that.
I would ask the FAA why 1.9 million dollar fine. Why not 2 million or a $100,000 ?
Seriously stupid.  They are corporate bullies. …"
Oct 8, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on Jesus A's blog post Genuine custom designed APM powered UAVs in Spain - droning
"Looking good Jesus!
I like the PCB especially :-)"
Aug 25, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on lot's blog post Get in contact with a drone (literally)
"This is just taking it too far.... "
Aug 25, 2015
Quadrocopter commented on Doug Walmsley's blog post Ambulance Drone' ... a flying defibrillator!
"and i really wanted to be positive!!"
Nov 11, 2014
Quadrocopter commented on Doug Walmsley's blog post Ambulance Drone' ... a flying defibrillator!
"It's another company with money wanting to get into the "drone" market.
Spending all that money drawing, designing, modelling > to get a fancy looking Y6?
Marketing at it's finest, still not quite as good as flying DHL or pizza delivers...close ;-)…"
Nov 11, 2014
Quadrocopter commented on Winfried Rijssenbeek's blog post Update of the man drone project
"Sitting under the wash? The middle props will not provide lift?
The design is ridiculous !!!
Simon"
Oct 16, 2014
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