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Project Andromeda

Posted by Nima Kayvan on January 26, 2010 at 4:19pm

I've put together a website for a project I've been working on for 2 years now and will hopefully enter it into the Australian Outback UAV Challenge if it's held in 2010. Just wanted to post the website here for those who are interested. I'll post here when I add new entries for the blog with an excerpt for those who wish to follow the progress.Website: http://www.projectandromeda.com.auBlog: http://www.projectandromeda.com.au/blog

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andy j January 6, 2011 at 9:25pm

flipping beautiful work ! very nice !! and good looking site too

I am working with the DNT900 for telemetry as well, and was curious of your experience with the units?
Nima K January 28, 2010 at 3:01pm

Thank you, I'm glad people can see the website. Mike, that launcher of theirs looks similar to what we're trying to do, only with a different energy conversion system. I'll post some more info when the design is finished. Their stuff looks very interesting, although I got a bit put off working with hybrid N20 systems after the accident at Scaled Composites.

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Mike January 28, 2010 at 2:55pm

Hi Nima, check out this one-wing Black / Redeye drone(s) with impressive quoted performance also launched via a pneumatic catapult [ take off speed - 20 kg drone, up to 70km/h ]. Of further possible interest, they also been doing experimentation with a hybrid rocket motor. And, do their cutting with CO² laser. Here is a youtube video of rocket glider footage.
Nicolas Dufour January 28, 2010 at 11:55am

Really nice :) Impressive goal ! Great project indeed.
Overwatch January 28, 2010 at 5:14am

The site's running great now, thanks :) and the CNC mill is to die for. Can't wait for more updates.
Nima K January 28, 2010 at 3:46am

For those of you who had trouble seeing the website, I've completely redesigned it and can even see it on an Android phone, so I'm hoping everyone can see it. Big thanks to Martin for the heads up on the cool Gallery control. I will put up links/credits soon.

I also posted some pictures of our CNC machine. Will blog about it soon. Hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think.
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Morli January 27, 2010 at 10:08am

Cool concept airframe & colors :)( looks similar to Boeing's UAV) , good luck for OB 2010
Nicolas Dufour January 27, 2010 at 7:41am

The project seems interesting, but the website is really unusable ... only the link blog is useful!
Rana January 27, 2010 at 6:01am

Hi Nima !
Your work is highly remarkable, Hats off to you !
You site "http://www.projectandromeda.com.au" pushes out three zip files, which contains three DLL files;
System.Windows.Controls.Layout.Toolkit.dll
System.Windows.Controls.dll
System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll

What to do with these ?

Thanks & Best Regards

Narpat Singh Rana

IIS7
Nima K January 27, 2010 at 5:17am

Ok so you've convinced me to redesign the website. I'm quickly putting together an ASP version which should be viewable on any machine with javascript support(I'm hoping that woin't be another issue). I think the gallery definitely won't be as nice as the Silverlight version. I'll post it when I'm done.