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Beta of AttoPilot GCS

The folks at Millswood Engi… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on November 20, 2009 at 9:13pm — 3 Comments

FLYING REALLY HIGH & MORE DISHES

FLYING REALLY HIGH For the first time since Mike Fouche documented it on Goo Tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6j--ja_okg An autonomous copter has flown at a certain very high altitude in a certain country. The exact altitude & country is a secret to protect the innocent of course. It was also at midnight, like all our most extreme test flights. Since the radio seems to work better if the antenna isn't blocked by anythin… Continue

Added by Jack Crossfire on November 20, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

CHR-6d, US$125, 1.5grams 6DoF IMU

Did anybody use "CHR-6d Inertial Measurement Unit" (US$125, 1.5grams 6DoF IMU) in his/her UAV? Continue

Added by Roberto Hawkowski on November 20, 2009 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

The ASP XR-01 UAV with the Ardupilot v2.4.6

On nov 15,2009, this was a great day, my ASP XR-01 UAV fully equiped with the ArduPilot v2.4.… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Naudin on November 19, 2009 at 12:19am — 24 Comments

ArduIMU V2 Test Application

This application was designed to help you test your ArduIMU V2 by showing graphically and numerically all of the data being output from the IMU. You can download the Setup here: ArduIMUTest Setup (3 MB) This version of the Test App uses the MSCOMM control, so the max COM port number is 16 (unfortunately a limitation set forth my Microsoft). Be… Continue

Added by HappyKillmore on November 18, 2009 at 7:30pm — 9 Comments

Pushing the UAV DevBoard to the limits

Tailless & Wingletless from Bryan Cuervo on Vimeo.

In one more attempt to test the abilities and push the limits of Bill's UAV DevBoard, I removed the winglets from my tailless design so now there are no horizontal or vertical stabilizers. The video is in three segments; the first showing manual flight with stabilization disengaged. You can see the difficu… Continue

Added by Bryan Cuervo on November 18, 2009 at 5:06pm — 5 Comments

SC-203, Small UAVs, and You

Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of attending an AIAA seminar on Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Airspace System led by John Moore, a principal design engineer with Rockwell Collins. SC-203, a special committee requested by both the AOPA and the FAA, is currently drafting recommendations for policies that will "assure the safe operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) within the National Airspace System." A vast majority of the regulations SC-203 is in the process of drafting wil… Continue

Added by Adam Kaplan on November 17, 2009 at 9:01pm — No Comments

Airtec UAVs video

Promised video from Airtec Hummingbird Falcon Fancopter Regards, Dimitar Continue

Added by Dimitar Kolev on November 16, 2009 at 11:33pm — 5 Comments

Curious about the legal issues behind UAVs? Listen to this week's podcast episode with Patrick Egan!

iTunes links AAC: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330632997 MP3: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330633212 RSS feed AAC: http://feeds.feedburner.… Continue

Added by Tim Trueman on November 16, 2009 at 11:30pm — 13 Comments

Yet another 3 axis single chip gyroscope

http://www.st.com/stonline/stappl/cms/press/news/year2009/p2440.htm Apparently a world first, but I swear I saw something similar a few weeks ago. Again though as with the ITG-3200 an… Continue

Added by Angus Peart on November 16, 2009 at 3:41pm — 14 Comments

ArduIMU groundstation written in 'processing'

I have created a basic 'ground station' for the ArduIMU in the 'Processing' IDE

The Processing development environment is very similar to the Arduino evironment Processing compiles into Java, it allows you to run the same code on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Being a Mac… Continue

Added by agmatthews on November 16, 2009 at 4:00am — 15 Comments

Small UAV platform

Hi Everyone I got my fingers on this UAV platform - maybe it could be an interesting platform for the community. Remember to use your Chinese translation..

Some information: Wingspan: 1120 mm Body length: 970 The airframe is made up of the compound of PVC and EPS, which is light weigh… Continue

Added by Hooks on November 16, 2009 at 2:00am — 34 Comments

Gyro and accelerometer vibration tests

I pe… Continue

Added by automatik on November 16, 2009 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

DIY Drones live chat/podcast tonight at 8:30pm PST

Free video streaming by Ustream 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

Added by Chris Anderson on November 15, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

More news.. (Including new 2Ch OptoCoupler and ArduIMU Flat issue)

For some reason my left index finger hurts me, so i can't type very well. ;-) I'm setting up ArduIMU and ArduPilot SVN repertory, in conjunction with Google code. In that way you will be able to track all the changes made to the code and spot the differences between revisions with the possibility to comment (or complain) about it. Lets do an interesting example, if you go to google code repertory for ardupilot and you click in the tab "source" and then in the option "Changes", or just click he… Continue

Added by Jordi Muñoz on November 15, 2009 at 1:30pm — 10 Comments

Excellent tear-down of an old military gyro

They don't make them like this anymore! Gorgeous manufacturing, but it's still a mystery how this ol… Continue

Added by Chris Anderson on November 14, 2009 at 5:24pm — No Comments

Ardupilot Ground Station 2.6.3 New Look

Hi All, Been hanging around here for quite a while now and gleaning as much information as i can, maybe its time to give something back. One of the biggest problems we found was that when in the field, its hard to get all the information where you need it, re-sizing all the windows, if you touch the pad, yo… Continue

Added by Dr Mike Black on November 14, 2009 at 8:00am — 55 Comments

A New AHRS about $300

The CHIMU developed by Ryan Mechatronics. Here is the link: http://www.ryanmechatronics.com/index_files/ProductDetailCHIMU.htm Including 3 axis gyro, 3 axis accelerometer, and 3 axis compass. But it seems that there are no kalm… Continue

Added by Jianguo Zhao on November 14, 2009 at 7:30am — 8 Comments

THIS WEEK IN AEROSPACE

THE DISH FARM

The main flying event of the year was the dish farm flight. The dish farm is being torn down in 2011 & replaced by flea startups. Don't think it emits radio waves anymore & VicaCopter is invisible when she's stationary. Nevertheless, got serious radio dropouts after a certain amou… Continue

Added by Jack Crossfire on November 13, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

ArduIMU code tests/improvements II

I have implemented the dynamic weighting of accelerometer info and works very well... I have made some flight test and the IMU can register some difficult maneuvers like rolls and loopings... Well, rolls are not difficult for an IMU (there are no centrifugal forces involved) but loopings are quite difficult. I´d also start to make some test of the robustness of the IMU/stabilization in difficult flight conditions. I flight in manual mode, do some "strange" maneuvre and then let the stabilization… Continue

Added by Jose Julio on November 13, 2009 at 9:51am — 8 Comments

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