Gender
Male
About
Location
Waverly, IA
About Me:
Retired College Chemistry and Physics Teacher, Pilot, Sky Diver, SCUBA Diver, Stock Class Paintballer, ex-HAM RADIO user ( QRP, CW, HOME BREW 40 M ), motorcyclist ( own four ), Steampunker ( a.k.a. Cornelius Blissripper-Sparrowcake ), electronics tinkerer, writer of stories, poems, movie scripts, photographer ( photo-ed NIXON, Queen Noor, NYC fashion models ).
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Been flying gas-engined RPV's so long ago my gear all had radio tubes in them. Developed college curricular materials for the use of remote probes and sensors for data acquisition. Wish to use Multirotor UAVS as a platform for deploying remote sensors, the teaching of the kinematics of flight, and a possible platform for VHF / UHF repeaters. Want to develop tethered UAVS that can stay aloft for two weeks straight or more.
Hometown:
Waverly
Activity Feed
Am building my FIRST MultiRotor UAV; a 3DR Quad Kit. When I got around to installing the landing legs, I decided to make two mods:I decided to move the legs as far out on their respective arms ( closer to the motors ) for added support since I will…
"I am soooo very new to computerized RPV-ing that I laugh at my own cluelessness. Although, I have been rubber-band-powered escapement flying R/C waaaaay back when Tx/Rx combos had radio tubes not even discrete transistors! I became excited about…"
"Another comment. One of the contributors to this thread talked of how DIY-ing with RPVS ( UAVS, UGVS, UWVS, and UUWVS ) is not a simple plug and play. He was right. I hope you forge ahead and keep QUADDING. When you Gremlin-proof your 3DR QUAD,…"
"Right now I have cheap toy QUADS. Next week I'll be ordering my 3DR QUAD KIT so all these posts are of interest to me. Even to a reeeeeal green guy like me, I would say that at the VERY FIRST SIGN OF EVEN THE SMALLEST IRREGULARITY the best thing…"
Is anyone out there experimenting with LIDAR as a collision avoidance system for UAVS ? I found some parts for this at: http://www.robotshop.com/en/leddartech-platform-sensor-evaluation-k... Am also looking for interfaces, probes anbd sensors…
"Table. Good idea. I want a "powered" table so I can not only launch and retrieve, do field repairs but field upgrading. Has anyone evaluated the PELICAN 472-FLD-DESK-TA as a possible choice ?
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Does anyone make a ruggedized field case like a PELICAN 0550 ( http://www.pelican.com/cases_detail.php?Case=0550 ) that might include a folding stand to move the case up to waist level during deployment, have a separate small parts storage area,…
