About

Gender

Male


Location

Daphne, AL


About Me:

Environmental Engineer Consultant Burned-out-rocket scientist Robotic Hobbiest since 1980.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Multicopters, Auotpilots for them, FPV & High def Video & panoramic camera applications. Have large library of aerial robotics research and enjoy translating multicopter theses from foriegn languages to english.


Hometown:

Daphne


Activity Feed

W. Joe Taylor commented on Jordan's blog post The Drone / Horror Movie trailer
"A lot better than most of the holliwood flicks!"
Jun 3, 2015
W. Joe Taylor commented on IKE's blog post Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
"Dr. Da IDE Scaramuzza, Dr. Roland Siegwart, Dr. Samir Bouabdallah, and others at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have done incredible work in this field and every other aspect of this technology (especially quad rotors, etc.) since at…"
Mar 30, 2015
W. Joe Taylor commented on X-Winder's blog post X-Winder 4-Axis Filament Winder
"Just watched your excellent videos. The winder geometry And capabilities are comparable to systems I used costing several orders of magnitud higher. Nice system."
Mar 19, 2015
W. Joe Taylor commented on X-Winder's blog post X-Winder 4-Axis Filament Winder
"Hello x-winder,
Does the system come with software to calculate the geodesic for a non-slip path fOr the automated filament winding on arbitrary radial profile? I did that for a research project back in 1987. Would be interested in helping you with…"
Mar 19, 2015
W. Joe Taylor commented on Víctor Mayoral's blog post An autopilot with ROS support
"what is ROS?"
Mar 15, 2015
W. Joe Taylor commented on Roger Sollenberger's blog post Latest DroneCon 2014 Recap: Jaime Machuca, “Conventional survey methods vs. UAVs”
"Jer....Link to your solution?"
Jul 6, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on edupin's blog post First international drone photography awards: And the winner is...
"After reading the response from Capung Aero team I am happy that every reasonable precaution seems to have been taken. Thanks guys for being responsible. My harsh comments were driven by the one thing that really got my goat and that was the photo…"
Jul 6, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on edupin's blog post First international drone photography awards: And the winner is...
"The point was to get amazing images. The photographers do not care if it is safe or not. maybe if the drones fell out of the sky injureed the children smiling in amazement at the drone taking their picture via that go-pro it would have scored 1st…"
Jul 4, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Gary McCray's blog post Drones Are Fun an informational resource for everybody interested in UAVs, especially for personal use.
"Why are my comments posting twice?  I am not that important."
May 30, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Gary McCray's blog post Drones Are Fun an informational resource for everybody interested in UAVs, especially for personal use.
"Gary, one more thing.  I think Archibald Montgomery Low would have been really impressed with the scope and content of your work on the dronesarefun.com site. In case anyone following these posts is wondering, my 2 cents rarely get any response and…"
May 30, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Gary McCray's blog post Drones Are Fun an informational resource for everybody interested in UAVs, especially for personal use.
"Gary,
This is really great.  You have always provided top notch posts - how you have the time to do such a fantastic service for the DIY Drone community is miraculous and really splendid.  Thanks a gazillion."
May 30, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Gary McCray's blog post Drones Are Fun an informational resource for everybody interested in UAVs, especially for personal use.
"Gary,
This is really great.  You have always provided top notch posts - how you have the time to do such a fantastic service for the DIY Drone community is miraculous and really splendid.  Thanks a gazillion."
May 30, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Jared Reabow's blog post The Brown one is 3000Mah, the white one is 4000Mah
"Hi Jared,
Usually I don't respond or even pay attention to DIY Drones anymore because it has become a forum for social interaction rather than a technical forum and it is refreshing to see this type of post.  Also, I really miss Jack Crossfire's…"
May 30, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Phantom clone running APM
"Chris, so what does 10000 apm boards for these clones cost?"
Apr 29, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on The UAV Guide's blog post Announcing The UAV Guide
"The web pages for The UAV Guide look pretty good so far. Who is on the team? Is it an open source project? Wiil control theory & flight automation be included? I like the idea of a well organized, onel stop reference for development and training.…"
Apr 20, 2014
W. Joe Taylor commented on Bill Bonney's blog post Announcing APM Planner 2.0 RC1 -- the cross-platform GCS for Mac, Windows and Linux
"Hi Bill,
Does the APM Planner 2.0 replace the Ardupilot / Arducopter etc suite? Or is it just another way to go? What are major differences? Why should I switch? Will it work tith the old APM 1?"
Dec 28, 2013
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