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Rich Weaver commented on Jack Crossfire's blog post Home made ESC ideas
"Jack, try Webench Designer by National (now TI) http://webench.ti.com?  Feed it your requirements and it prints out a schematic, bom, etc and you can simulate it.  It came up using a TLV62130 at 88% eff. for a 3S, smallest design, 3 resistors 3 caps…"
Jun 2, 2012
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Check out the GCS (and new soundtrack!) in the X-47B first flight video
"My wag is it's easier to hit closer to the desired landing spot, a flare adds more variability, ok if you have a lot of runway.  I keep thinking it looks like a mini B2.  Also like the old work horse chase plane.  Nice photography of the control…"
Feb 26, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Omer Cayir's photo
"Omer -
I'm in the process of building one up too, although I'm running out of room for my UDB and FPV.  Have you opened the belly area up to place your equipment in there (that's what I'm thinking of doing)"
Feb 19, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Dean Lamborn's blog post It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A Drone!!
"Quoting my source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_air_battery
The theoretical specific energy (of a LiO2 battery) excluding oxygen is 11140 Wh/kg, or 40.1 megajoules per kilogram. Compare this to the figure of 44 megajoules per kilogram for…"
Feb 19, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Here's the page for local DIY Drones fly/meetup groups. Add yours (or make one)!
"Made one for the Ann Arbor, MI area.
 
Ann Arbor, MI Area"
Feb 14, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Andrew Van Der Plaats's blog post X-47B first test flight
"Son of a B2"
Feb 13, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Neato Robotics Lidar teardown--hackable?
"From reading the white paper, I'm guessing the imager is an Aptina MT902X in 1/3" CMOS (originally a Micron imager). At least the 752 resolution and 6.0 um pixel size lines up with those imagers."
Nov 22, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post New Skywalker
"So, what's the improvement over the original? Dropping the T-tail and larger rudder?"
Jul 4, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Morli's blog post Pilotless Aircraft Approved for Texas Airspace : Good times to come
"Yes, I know, I was following the logo discussion awhile back and had to comment."
May 21, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Morli's blog post Pilotless Aircraft Approved for Texas Airspace : Good times to come
"Boy, that looks a lot like the DIY Drones Logo at the top ;) Minus the wing wart of course."
May 20, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post One way to win the T3-Round 6 competition ;-)
"Looks like Stanford has moved away from their very precise and safe driving control strategies they exhibited in the Grand and Urban Challenges to a more non-linear regime. Looks like they are still putting their Velodyne and Riegl sensors to good…"
May 11, 2010
Rich Weaver replied to M's discussion UAV companies in the US
"Also, this site has many listings.

http://www.auvsi.org/AUVSI/AUVSI/Resources/CareerCenter/Default.aspx

Go to their Career Center for Job Seeker and search for intern. Numerous opportunities for you."
Mar 21, 2010
Rich Weaver replied to M's discussion UAV companies in the US
"This is for a fall 2010 internship.

https://jobs-insitu.icims.com/jobs/1498/job"
Mar 21, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Latest research on optical flow
Mar 14, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Latest research on optical flow
"Looks like I have some studying to do. I'd love to replace our Xilinx implementation. Thanks for sharing."
Mar 14, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Latest research on optical flow
"I agree, it takes a fair amount of silicon to implement it. Some of the vision guys I work with have been using the Xilinx FPGA version of it, same as in the following article:"
Mar 13, 2010
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