About

Gender

Male


Location

Takamatsu


About Me:

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication methods and business development. He is best known for building bridges between commercial and non-commercial stakeholders in the technology sector. His professional accomplishments include establishing a legal department for the main NGO promoting Free Software in Europe, building a professional network of over 270 legal counsel and technical experts across 4 continents, and aligning corporate and community interests to launch the first law review dedicated to Free/Open Source Software. Shane has extensive knowledge of Internet technologies, management best practice, community building and Free/Open Source Software. His experience includes engagement with the server, desktop, embedded and mobile telecommunication industries. He does business in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and maintains a broad network of contacts.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am helping to develop disaster relief solutions using technology like UAVs.


Hometown:

Dublin


Activity Feed

Shane Martin Coughlan commented on Sarel P. Wagner's blog post Open Source Airframe
"It looks like this project has stalled (also in another thread: http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/open-source-uav-airframe?xg_sourc...). However, perhaps everyone will be interested to note that an Open Source Airframe has just been released by the…"
Jul 6, 2012
Shane Martin Coughlan commented on crystal garris's blog post Open airframe
"It looks like this project has stalled. However, perhaps everyone will be interested to note that an Open Source Airframe has just been released by the OpenRelief project. 
Here is an overview of the specs: * Length 1.4 meters * Wing span 1.8…"
Jul 6, 2012
Shane Martin Coughlan replied to Sarel P. Wagner's discussion Open Source UAV Airframe
"It looks like this project has stalled. However, perhaps everyone will be interested to note that an Open Source Airframe has just been released by the OpenRelief project.
Here is an overview of the specs: * Length 1.4 meters * Wing span 1.8…"
Jul 6, 2012
Shane Martin Coughlan commented on Anish's blog post Raspberry Pi teams up with Arduplane
"Yeah, we had hoped Karl Lattimer from Newcastle, one of the project co-founders, would attend to go into details. However, something came up at the last minute, and my (admittedly lame) video was the stand-in. I'm sorry for that, and I hope that we…"
Jun 23, 2012
Shane Martin Coughlan commented on Anish's blog post Raspberry Pi teams up with Arduplane
"Hi guys! Apologies for the slow response. I plan to post more specific data about OpenRelief on the forums shortly. Just to super-quickly address some of the comments above, we are using the Ardupilot for the autopilot, and there are two prototype…"
Jun 23, 2012