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Software developer, contributor to several open source projects, occasional author and speaker, iconoclast


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Los Angeles, CA


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deadprogrammer commented on deadprogrammer's blog post A Somewhat Different Take On The Arduino-Based UAV - Project Flying Robot
"Actually, we were not able to find anything that did exactly what we want, so we have been working on a control application called Mercury. It is written in Ruby using the Shoes library, so it will run on OSX, Windows, and Linux. Like the rest of…"
Mar 25, 2009
deadprogrammer commented on deadprogrammer's blog post A Somewhat Different Take On The Arduino-Based UAV - Project Flying Robot
"Well, that is one reason we went out and got a tank of our own. With all the stuff we want to pack in the thing, we will probably end up puffing up on a daily basis. Good thing the price of helium is coming down!"
Mar 24, 2009
deadprogrammer commented on deadprogrammer's blog post A Somewhat Different Take On The Arduino-Based UAV - Project Flying Robot
"Given your wealth of experience on this subject, that is indeed advice we will take. We did some tests of our envelope, which I might mention is the "higher altitude" version, and it appeared to support a maximum payload of 146g."
Mar 24, 2009
deadprogrammer posted a blog post
For some time, my brother Damen and I have been silent admirers of the awesome stuff that is being done by Chris, Jordi, and many others here on DIYDrones. Finally, about a month ago, inspired by the cool community, we decided to jump into the air…
Mar 24, 2009