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Male


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Arlington, VA


About Me:

Interested in UAV's, though I currently don't have time yet to dedicate this... :-)


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

zak.freeshell.org


Activity Feed

Zak commented on Geoffrey L. Barrows's blog post Hardware Startup Groups Unite!
"Looking forward to attending... (Already joined meetup group)."
Aug 9, 2012
Zak commented on Claudio Natoli's blog post iPad Ground Control Station
"Very cool, impressive work!"
Aug 2, 2012
Zak commented on trappy's blog post Las Vegas (TBS @ USA Road Trip 11/13)
"Why did you do this?  In the previous episodes, you were playing safe by doing your flying in desolate areas, not in the dense area of the strip in Vegas...  This is exactly the type of thing people are looking to regulate and make the hobby for the…"
Apr 5, 2012
Zak commented on agmatthews's blog post Attack of the birds
"So awesome!"
Aug 6, 2011
Zak commented on Chris Anderson's blog post What's in-between manned and unmanned? "Optionally piloted"
"Very cool."
Aug 5, 2011
Zak commented on Andrew Van Der Plaats's blog post Rupert Murdoxh's 'The Daily' iPad News shows report using Toy UAS
"It will be interesting to see if he (or his show) gets fined by the FAA for commercial use of an RC plane..."
May 5, 2011
Zak commented on Doug Weibel's blog post On-Board Video from SparkFun AVC - collision with light pole
"Wish I could've been there... Looks fun!"
Apr 25, 2011
Zak commented on frederic reblewski's blog post Small UAV Design and Application talk at Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley campus
"Anyone know if this can be taped & shared?"
Mar 29, 2011
Zak commented on ARHEXA's blog post PARACHUTE anyone ?
"Interesting.  They (hobbyking) offer some parachutes, but they are more for paragliders. (Strangely, they don't have any airframes built on paragliders, but I digress on that point.)  Looking at the forums on line, apparently when some people used…"
Mar 27, 2011
Zak commented on Duane Brocious's blog post What does the FAA consider "commercial"
"What about other types of recreational type devices (ie kite photography)?"
Mar 26, 2011
Zak commented on Roman's blog post Paradrone : a paraglider drone
"Great video!"
Jun 9, 2010
Zak commented on Zak's blog post An Alternative Platform...
"Interesting. The demo video (from airfoilaviation) was from July 16th of 2000..."
May 30, 2010
Zak posted a blog post
Hi Everyone,I got interested in aviation via this website, and I'm thinking of becoming a pilot myself in an ultralight of some sort. I was intrigued by powered parachutes. Basically, you have a fan, a parachute (similar to para-gliders) and shift…
May 29, 2010
Zak commented on Marc Daniels's blog post Palm GCS
"Very cool. I smiled, not laugh... :-)"
May 20, 2010
Zak commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New sensors in the DIY Drones store
"Hi Jordi,
How would I connect the pressure sensor up to an arduino, not an ardupilot? I'm thinking of creating an "open" weather station for myself... is there a place where I could get documentation (that a layman could understand)? Thanks for this…"
May 6, 2010
Zak commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Virtual Arduino
"For some reason, I was unable to get it to run in 64 bit windows vista. Vista could be part of the problem..."
Apr 7, 2010
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