"Make that 16,000 members....that $100k put up by DARPA is starting to look like the chicken feed it is..."

"The double edge sword of open source. If you share information, and put it out there for others to use and add to, the creative gain is awesome. But you cant control how someone will use it. I faced this a year or two ago with a project i worked on…"

"I see you have a 2.4Ghx Xbee set up in there likely to transmit your control signals? Ive just built a similar system. I found xbees work fine for doing vehicle control, but they have 2 things to consider:

1. Be careful firing up one xbee that is…"

"As one of the many thousands of UAV enthusiasts who watch/participate in this site, I for one have no problem paying for hardware. I probably have more resources than most (i have my own engineering business with a workshop and electronics setup)…"

"@John: Yep, good tips, and well done on your version too btw. I calculated as you have done that 9600bps is pretty useful and good enough for what we are doing. Ended up with 38.4kbps purely as i was experimenting with baud rates vs errors and thats…"

"btw i have had mixed results with the Intuitive Circuits OSD. It has a nasty habit of freezing up on me (either losing sync with the monitor or dropping the serial link - not sure which yet). Think i might try something else..."