Gender

Male

Location

Queensland

About Me:

I am a Electrical Control Systems Engineer - industrial mostly, and have always been interested in "flying machines", everything about them, from big ones to little ones, rotors and wings. I am equally versed in programming, electronics, mechanical design and control systems - so I know how damn hard UAVs are to create but thats what I love about them.

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I have an R/C plane I have never flown and had for the last 10 years because of life's wonderful interruptions - but a few weeks ago online I "bumped" into the "UAV Outback Challenge", I was instantly obsessed and found a whole world of UAVs out there. It is a fusion of all of my passions, flight, control systems, electronics, programming. I have put together a team of three and hope to enter next year with our own UAV. I am not one for shortcuts and we are going to create our own, I have gone through a few of the open source sourcecode and believe that we have a lot to give. I want to create a UAV that is able to be used by rural fire brigades - low cost, no expertise to use and be able to relay fire positions and movements.

Hometown:

Brisbane