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I'd ask that the usual rules of DIY Drones apply in this discussion: no politics (let's refrain from talking about "Republican" views), no nationalism (or antinationalism) and no personal attacks. This is a sensitive topic, which is all the more r...
High powered rockets are a better delivery vehicle to something like the Superbowl where the target is enormous. Just getting over the wall into an open-air stadium & landing anywhere is effective. It's easier than UN sugar motor Qassams from Gaza...
You can't use it with ArduPilot in its standard settings. Follow the configuration instructions here...
Did you get the adapter board and cable from the DIY Drones store? You can't use the Ublox without them, either.
UAV's are the tool of gentle nations to /minimize/ civilian casualties; the question appears to be whether or not this same tool could also be used to /maximize/ civilian casualties. It would appear to be dismissable on its face.
As others have n...
The "notion" is that this tech is beyond the scope of adversarial interest. This is the old fuel that started the fire. The technology is low hanging fruit when viewed as a threat and exacerbated by the lack of a powerful lobby.
IMHO, Why add fuel to fire now? Have enough hinderance and opposition from faa , aaf, abcd and who knows who else, but we all know the available tech in public forum is still far from presision targeting solution required for Mr. T's intentions, f...
As mentioned, we're developing a "9DoF" version of ArduIMU as a Thermopile Replacement. Should be in in Q1. A non-trivial technical challenge, given that it doesn't have access to the GPS data, like the regular IMU (which is why we're adding the m...
Patrick, what notion?
When people can fly airliners into buildings without hindrance - I dont think an amateur UAV is a major threat...
There is evidence that contradicts the premise of this notion.
The inclusion of a magnetometer can allow a complete attitude solution without a GPS. Good for inside or other GPS denied environments.
You can just buy the XY straight from FMA, too. We don't sell standalone Zs because they need to be matched sets (different makers use different resistors inside)
Yes, Blimpduino supports RC mode right out of the box. You can either buy the version with RC gear, or just use your own.
If you have another FMA XY sensor, you can use that as a Z. I wouldn't modify the code to eliminate the Z, A) because it will probably be a lot of work with poor results, and B) you'll have to do the modification again everytime we release a new v...
Oh, c'mon! You're going to have to take a little more initiative if you're going to succeed in UAVs. It's the first driver listed on the page. Here.
War on Terror = Hoax
If up against a regular army, I assume it might have worked the first time used. The second time I would suspect one of two things to happen:
1. UAV brought down, by bullets, electronic warfare, lasers or other means,
2. Terrorist blown away when ...
Hi all,
Dean provides an excellent GCS that ships with his Attopilot. This one is a free (sort of) and open source alternative that supports my failsafe PTZ device. It's very beta and is really just intended to demonstrate what can be done. I don...
Interesting article, but I tend to agree with wayne morse, in terms of destructive purposes, but what about if terrorists used them for basic aerial surveillance?
Did you load the FTDI drivers, as instructed in the manual?
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RobotC Version 2.0 now out
For those of you who, like me, love Lego Mindstorms as a robotics prototyping tools, good news. The best programming language for Mindstorms is Robot C, and it's just been upgraded to 2.0. (It's a free upl… Continue Posted on November 22, 2009 at 12:17pm —
In AUVSI mag: "Do Terrorists Want UAS, Too?"
There's a provocative piece in the current issue of the AUVSI's offical magazine, Umanned Systems.… Continue
Posted on November 21, 2009 at 11:30pm — 10 Comments
DIY Drones live chat/podcast Sunday. Guest: Steve Morris of MLB
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Tomorrow (Sunday) night we'll do our regular podcast, which everyone here is welcome to participate in by listening to the chat live above and commenting and asking questions via the DIY Drones… Continue
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Beta of AttoPilot GCS
Posted on November 20, 2009 at 9:13pm — 5 Comments
DIY Drones live chat/podcast tonight at 8:30pm PST
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Tonight (Sunday) we'll do our regular podcast, which everyone here is welcome to participate in by listening to the chat live above and commenting and asking questions via the DIY Drones… Continue
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- At 5:58pm on July 11, 2007,
Jeffrey Johnson said…
- Great talking to you today. We are on it with using your designs here, and look forward to dovetailing our efforts. Power to the PictEarth People!
- At 9:13pm on January 2, 2008,
Dhrumil said…
- Thanks for setting this up.
- At 11:12pm on February 7, 2008,
Mark L said… - Hey Chris,
I just read your post on UAVs and I'm wondering if there's anywhere that one could purchase a pre-made UAV...couldn't find one on ebay.
I run a network of websites, www.ballerhouse.com, and am considering featuring a UAV article. Can you point me in the direction of where someone could purchase one? If so, what other info should my readers know?
Thanks!
Mark L
markl@ballerhouse.com
- At 11:17pm on February 7, 2008,
Chris Anderson said…
- The cheapest commercial one is around $7,000 (cropcam.com). The cheapest *good* one is around $10,000 (http://www.procerusuav.com/). That's why we started this site, to bring the price down below $1,000.
We're *DIY* Drones--buying one premade isn't the point ;-)
- At 5:41pm on February 28, 2008,
William Premerlani said… - Chris,
If you want to do a Q&A with me, that would be fine.
The reason for the board is that my son and I thought it would be fun to build our own board, develop theory, and write firmware. We were inspired by Maynard Hill, who came to town and gave a talk.
We got our feet wet with a rapid-prototyping board mounted on an RC truck, and then build our own board for a sailplane. We bought our parts from SparkFun. Nathan Seidle, the ownder of Sparkfun, asked me what we were doing, I told him, he offered to build a surface mount board for me.
My son and I spent a few delightful summers getting the firmware working. At the time, our goal was to play, to just do some interesting things with it, without any goal in mind. When we were done, we had something that worked to our satisfaction, Nathan asked if he could sell it, we gave him permission.
We recognized that what we had was not a full-fletched autopilot, but that it might be interesting to anyone wanting to tinker with the controller. They could build on our firmware, if they wanted, or start from stratch, if they were ambitious.
By the way, the main reason we used assembly language was that my son had never written any, and he wanted to learn. He had used lots of other languages, but not assembly.
As far as what people are doing with my board, you probably have more information than I have!! The only person I've talked to so far is a member of diydrones. All I know is that the board is selling well at SparkFun, with no complaints.
By the way, the reason the board has been backordered for so long is that the vendor of the GPS replaced their ET301 with an ET312 at the same time that SparkFun was automating their board production, resulting in some defective boards. Even after we worked out the hardware problems, there was a subtle change in the ET312 that caused some problems. Every board that SparkFun builds is tested with the full firmware running, and the boards were not passing. We finally figured out what was wrong, production is resumed, I guess they are catching up on backorders.
All of the work my son and I was deliberately done in a vacuum...we didn't do any research on what other people were doing. We made some mistakes (that was the point) and had some fun.
My background is an electrical engineer with strengths in control theory, mathematics, and theory of flight.
I work at GE's research labs, I've been there for 33 years.
You might want to do a Google on "William Premerlani" to see what I have been up to. Much of it has to do with software development...you gave me a good chuckle when you said in your review that you wondered why we hadn't used C...the answer is, it would have been too easy!!!
Bill
- At 10:52pm on March 22, 2008,
Elisa said… - any time if u like to have a wet dip & country village food, come over try our our boats,(planty of spcae for plane flys
elisa
- At 6:02pm on March 26, 2008,
T-Rex said…
- I heard you on Talk of the Nation today...great job! I did not get to hear the whole show, but definately heard the part about your "robotics" site and 3-axis accelerometers. You, my friend, rock!
By the way, thanks for the advice about starting out in R/C with a foamie...else I would not have made it past my first flight attempts.
- At 6:27pm on March 26, 2008,
- Thanks! I wanted to say "3-axis MEMS accelerometer" but I held back for the sake of the NPR audience ;-)
- At 10:44pm on April 4, 2008,
Simon Pan said… - Hey Chris,
I won honorable mention, best in category, best in engineering, 550$, and an internship offer, at the state science & engineering fair. (The winners were a guy who did computer simulations of bird flu epidemics to determine the best method to distribute a limited supply of antivirals, a girl who developed an advanced, complex robotic vision algorithm which could detect blobs in foggy areas and high altitude ranges, and a guy who figured out a method to stem the growth of certain forms of cancer, so it was a humbling experience).
I just wanted to thank you for making this website and for your great documention and projects, because without them I'd probably still be trying to figure out how to connect the GPS receiver to the Stamp.
Thanks!
- Simon
- At 8:26am on May 10, 2008,
Huckleberry said… - Thanks Chris,
Been following along for some time (geekdad) and just bought a Blubberbot for something to do over the summer holidays... thinking about the project possibilities for my kids in electronics 11/12 ... hmmm blimp racing? Anyway, great to be here.
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