sergei lupashin

"Yes - Rover is better. A "car" is something that transports people. Cool event / direction, just want to avoid confusion! Yes, CNN's have become incredibly impressive."

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Instructions for a sub-$100 autonomous rover using computer vision

"This is cool but.. it's a bit misleading to call this an "autonomous car"? Nein?"

sergei lupashin commented on healthyfatboy's blog post Fotokite Phi Tethered Quadrotor on IndieGoGo

"Thanks for posting this! @Dax - the Fotokite is quite different from CyPhy stuff (apart from the price) in that we don't use GPS or have dependency on RF-based control. What happens is the tether is kept taut and the tension force is used as the…"

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Update on Fotokite, the tethered cameracopter

"Thanks for the shotout @Chris! @Jack I'd say the closer parallel to what we're up to is the work done around 110 years ago. But I'm getting ahead of myself!"

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post AirDog and 3D Robotics team up on next-gen Follow-me copters

"@Jack at Fotokite we're not hating life at all. Actually we're all very impressed by the AirDog video/campaign and are really excited to see their product in the wild!! Love the folding design and the logo :-)"

sergei lupashin commented on Jani Hirvinen's blog post Lady GaGa, first wearable hexacopter

"Thanks for this Jani, this is awesome!(And very, very loud :-( )"

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post "Fotokite" -- camera drone on a leash

"We can't discuss details of our technology here, sorry. Much of it is patent-pending. Fundamentals that were done as research, as indeed funded by the Swiss taxpayers, will be published in the coming months."

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post "Fotokite" -- camera drone on a leash

"Thanks for posting Chris! There's another video of just the flight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzPJEO60LKk
If you'd like to hear more please get in touch via our website: http://www.fotokite.com.
-sergei "

sergei lupashin commented on John C.'s blog post The New 3DR Store Has Landed!

"+1 expired token. Ubuntu or Win7, both with Chrome."

sergei lupashin commented on Britt's blog post An Interview with Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics

"@Britt, FYI, "ETH Zurich" and "University of Zurich" are two completely separate entities. The PX4 was developed at ETH Zurich (www.ethz.ch) -- see, in fact, the address of the pixhawk website: https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/
Interesting interview, though,…"

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ETH's Raffaello D'Andrea and the coming "machine revolution"

"More background info on this video/event from our (D'Andrea's) lab:
http://robohub.org/surrounded-by-quadrocopters-on-stage-raffaello-d..."

sergei lupashin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post The $200,000 toy heli

"@Bjørn Didriksen thanks for the info/reality check :-). DIYDrones is a bit of an echo-chamber."

sergei lupashin commented on F1P's blog post Raffaello D'Andrea at ZURICH.MINDS. Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution. Public video lecture.

"Thanks for posting, didn't realize this didn't make it to DIYDrones. -sergei"

sergei lupashin commented on Jack Crossfire's blog post Tablets, copters, & extreme precision

"I take it you're using the wii-mote sensors? Those things are amazing.. so cheap and easy to use, too. Too bad they only track up to 4 (is it 4?) blobs.."