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"I believe Alienware have been bought by Dell. Their kit is certainly well-regarded if memory serves, but quite pricey. I've had good experiences with pcspecialist.co.uk for high-end PCs (though for my own use, I build my own)."
"Gumstix is up and running with bitbakery a-go-go. USB connectors have been obtained to make the magic OTG cable so I can connect up a hub and thus a wifi dongle (for the time being - I'm hoping the host UDB stops being experimental sooner rather…"
"Looks like a small typo in the piece, BTW - Martin Mueller Engineering seem to live at http://pfump.org/ rather than .com."
"Much kudos! I heard the very beginning of your Radio 4 interview the other day too, but was interrupted. Should be downloadable here. The show is repeated on Sunday 11th Jan at 9.30-10pm UK too, I believe."
"I'm at an early, early stage and thus far planning to use something throughly disposable like the Wing Dragon for my own initial training and something from Multiplex for my first UAV airframe when I get to that stage. I've just picked up a book…"
"Cheers Curt! All excellent information. The Linux environment is certainly a big plus for me, since that's what I work with every day and what all my other computers run (apart from the one running Solaris)."
"Point taken about not rushing to expensive conclusions - that's definitely part of the reason why I'm doing a lot of preliminary thinking out loud here. I think my initial plan now look something like this:
1) More reading, particularly on the…"
1) More reading, particularly on the…"
"Hi Ren -
You're quite right to surmise that I have no RC aircraft experience (though I was very into RC cars as a kid and some of the principles appear to be transferable). Fortunately the world seems to be full of people who like to modify their…"
You're quite right to surmise that I have no RC aircraft experience (though I was very into RC cars as a kid and some of the principles appear to be transferable). Fortunately the world seems to be full of people who like to modify their…"
"All Hail Sparkfun!
Cheers Marc - I'd probably have found it after an hour or so of increasingly irritated Googling ;-)"
Cheers Marc - I'd probably have found it after an hour or so of increasingly irritated Googling ;-)"
"Aha - right you are. If the choice is laying out a bunch of rather finicky-sounding external amplification and noise suppression versus reviving my C, there's no contest at all. Consider my planning updated :-)
Of course now I see that the Summit…"
Of course now I see that the Summit…"
"Hi Marc -
I've given some consideration to the simpler RC-part or FMA-style stabilisation, but I'd really like something with the potential to be used on a wider variety of planes beyond the prototype park flyer. My impression, which may be false,…"
I've given some consideration to the simpler RC-part or FMA-style stabilisation, but I'd really like something with the potential to be used on a wider variety of planes beyond the prototype park flyer. My impression, which may be false,…"
"Oh, and I think I'm going to pick up The Art Of Electronics tomorrow lunchtime. My skills are both very basic and very rusty and it seems clear that I'm not going to get away with COTS all the way, much as I'd like to."
"Cheers Chris!
I'll look into that GPS module for sure, having seen the blog entry on it.
I had a look at Zigbee stuff at one point, but the references I found were a bit a hazy on its advantages versus just forcing an 802.11g connection to 1Mb/s…"
I'll look into that GPS module for sure, having seen the blog entry on it.
I had a look at Zigbee stuff at one point, but the references I found were a bit a hazy on its advantages versus just forcing an 802.11g connection to 1Mb/s…"
When I was a small boy, I used to watch the Jindivik target drones take off from Llanbedr (see http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/hangar/1999/dera/targets.htm) on family holidays to North Wales, where my father was born. I've been interested in unmanned…
