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Shawn Schaerer commented on Achal Negi's blog post Releasing FlytOS v1.5-5: Video streaming via FlytCloud and support for DJI
"just an FYI, when I am on your website main page it was taking 107% cpu of my MacBook.
Not sure what's going on but you should fix it."
Feb 6, 2018
Shawn Schaerer commented on Nitin Gupta's blog post FlytBase Launches the World's First Internet of Drones Platform
"Great what you are doing.
Rapuyta Robotics is also doing something similar.
https://www.rapyuta-robotics.com/"
Jul 13, 2017
Shawn Schaerer commented on Víctor Mayoral's blog post Towards ROS-native drones
"that would be a great idea to have one stack for all robots.
we are interested in helping out.  There are parts of the stack that are important to us.
you should also post this on ros news site ;)"
Oct 14, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Víctor Mayoral's blog post Towards ROS-native drones
"Hi Victor,
Is this an attempt to make a navigation and control stack for drones, like ROS Navigation?"
Oct 14, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Chris Anderson's blog post OSRF (ROS) gets Toyota funding, creates for-profit arm
"As a ROS, user, developer and contributer, this is great news.  To me, it means that ROS will not disappear and ROS 2 will continued to be developed"
Sep 15, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Chris Anderson's blog post July 4th sale on 3DR Solo: $479 without gimbal, $599 with gimbal
"Chris,  it would be great to get the swarming instructions soon :)"
Jul 3, 2016
Shawn Schaerer posted a discussion in Canada
Jun 12, 2016
Shawn Schaerer replied to Rn's discussion How to connect directly to 3DR solo drone without using the RC ? in 3DR SOLO
"The controller is the WIFI hub, I am not sure if you would be able to do it with out changing the firmware on the solo."
May 3, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Intel gives sneak peak of drone development board
"The up board is another great Intel based board that could be used instead. 
http://www.up-board.org"
Apr 18, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on DG's blog post Draconian Drone bill in Congress is in the works. Is this the end of home-built drones?
"This will be no different than what medical device and robot manufacturers have to do today to get their products certified to bring to market.
Its just about public safety"
Mar 18, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Emlid's blog post New Raspberry Pi 3 with 64-bit cores and built-in Wi-Fi and BLE
"If it's an A53 then that will be great.
I run ROS on a Dragonboard and the A53 has great performance in running industrial robots.

Pine64 is also a good board and is 19 bucks."
Feb 27, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Maxx_UAV's blog post New ArduPilot plugin for Gazebo
"Which version of gazebo is used? Indigo supports 2 by default. There are gz6 packages for indigo."
Feb 27, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Nitin Gupta's blog post Start building high-level drone applications (onboard, web, mobile) with FlytOS
"I just want to point out that, there was a nasty virus type Ransomeware thingy on part of your website.
I got to this via one of your colleagues many posts on the forms.  :(
you should correct it ASAP!"
Jan 20, 2016
Shawn Schaerer commented on Matthew Reimer's blog post Reimer Robotics Autonomous Tractor
"I am very pleased to see this coming from another Manitoba based innovator.
keep up the great work!"
Jan 19, 2016
Shawn Schaerer replied to Shawn Schaerer's discussion Connecting SOLO to a network in 3DR SOLO
"Thanks Chris,
I was hoping to do this with one device in the field connected to LTE through my iPhone.  This will work for now :)"
Jan 15, 2016
Shawn Schaerer posted a discussion in 3DR SOLO
Is there anyway to connect SOLO to a network?I was going to put a webserver on it (http://dev.3dr.com/example-webserver.html)and pull down map data to create an onboard GCS.I now realize that I might not be able to do this. It would be great to know…
Jan 15, 2016
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