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Simon replied to Kim Faber's discussion What software are people using to stitch photos together? in Agricultural UAVs
Mar 25, 2014
Simon replied to Kim Faber's discussion What software are people using to stitch photos together? in Agricultural UAVs
"I'm wondering if hugin couldn't be used for that purpose, if you have overlapping pictures. 
It would be completely free.
It won't be geo-referenced, but could be useful for detecting damage in a field, given that there's enough features to match…"
Feb 13, 2014
Simon commented on Bharat Tak's blog post Hardware In Loop Simulation For Co-operative Missions Using ArdupilotMega
"I have confirmed that the XBEE-modules on the Quads actually form a mesh-network. 
Without a "middle man" packets were not received by a base station (Qgroundcontrol). With it some packets were still lost, but connection was established (heartbeats…"
Mar 13, 2013
Simon commented on Bharat Tak's blog post Hardware In Loop Simulation For Co-operative Missions Using ArdupilotMega
"This is kind of an old thread, but I'm posting anyways, maybe this may be of help to someone. 

I sucessfully connected two Arducopters (firmware 2.8.1 and 2.9.1) over Zigbee (not in API mode) to Qgroundcontrol: 
I use the standard XBEE PRO S1, that…"
Mar 12, 2013