About

About Me:

I am a Software and Hardware development engineer, specilalising in application development for Windows Mobile platform and Windows Embedded products. I also do a fair amount of hardware development using pic's and Arm devices.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Quadcopters. Helis and Fixed Wing for Aerial Photography


Hometown:

Randburg, South Africa


Activity Feed

Robert Hannaford commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post Demonstration of CanberraUAV image search algorithm
"Hi Tridge,
I am busy trying to run the image search algorithm as per the instructions in this blog, everything appears to be good the Map window loads with Map and grid, however an error is thrown in the python cli that says
Traceback (most recent…"
Sep 13, 2013
Robert Hannaford commented on Peter Bell's blog post German Multicopter Lifts Human Pilot
"Awesome, curious to know what the total battery size and ratings were.
 "
Oct 31, 2011
Robert Hannaford posted a discussion
Hi All,I have changed the 1280's on my boards to 2560's and I now need to know which bootloader to use and the fuse settings, can anyone help ?RegardsRob
Jul 28, 2011
Robert Hannaford posted a discussion
Hi Chris, I have a 3 Ardupilot Mega setups, If I want to upgrade the 1280 processor's to 2560's, can I go ahead and replace the device's. I see that they are pin compatable from the data sheet.I used to manufacture and repair smd printed circuit…
Jul 5, 2011
Robert Hannaford replied to Robert Hannaford's discussion Xbee will not work with latest Arducopter code
"Hi Sebastian,
Yes i did uncomment "#define IsXBee" under ArducopterNG tab.
I have 2 pairs of adapters, (1 pair of the Adafruit adapters from sparkfun) and  (1 pair of the diydrones adapters with the master/slave switch)
I did try the link back test…"
Jan 3, 2011
Robert Hannaford posted a discussion
Try as I may, I cannot get my XBee Pro modules to work with Arducopter and Configurator, I have read through and tried the solutions offered by other on the site but to no avail. Does the latest version of Arducopter code work with configurator over…
Jan 2, 2011
Robert Hannaford commented on Ryan's blog post Free OS UAV Plan!
"Comment by Robert Hannaford 16 hours ago Delete Comment Fantastic looking, please can I have the 3D files?
Regards Rob . Please can you send plans to rob@coolideassolutions.com.
Thank-you"
Nov 14, 2010
Robert Hannaford commented on Ryan's blog post Free OS UAV Plan!
"Fantastic looking, please can I have the 3D files?
Regards Rob"
Nov 13, 2010
Robert Hannaford left a comment for Graham Dyer
"Hi Graham, won't you please send me you cell no I have lost it, Regards Rob Hannaford

0733000337"
Aug 17, 2010
Robert Hannaford left a comment for Graham Dyer
"Hi Graham,

Please give me aring when you get a chance, Rob Hannaford 011 781 4029, 0733000337"
Jul 24, 2009