Dimitar Kolev
Dimitar Kolev
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Sergiu's blog post 'ADXRS453 Gyros with Ultrahigh vibration rejection'
you can try also with Sensonor gyros, similar parameters and price, but with SPI interface
yesterday
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Parrot AR.Drone 2 announced, adds HD vid, baro'
My first completely dead Ar.drone fails because of fall from 3 meters, causing crack into advanced, multilayer, ultra-thin Linux PCB with BGAs over it... - yes it can be replaced on the half drone price... those boards should be better protected.…
Jan 9
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Dean Lamborn commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar'
Or you could just buy one with RS232 output. Ok, it is $539. Optilogic Laser Range Finder with RS232
Nov 16, 2011
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Fabio Varesano commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'FreeIMU + new pressure sensor'
Yeah.. I'm working on testing it just right now.. Stay tuned on my website for any updates. Meanwhile you can read this for seeing the current tests results.
Nov 14, 2011
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Fab - Arduino for Visual Studio commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'FreeIMU + new pressure sensor'
I've been reading up on 4.0+. Yes please!!
Nov 14, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar'
Yes Kamu, likely does not mean easily :-)
Nov 11, 2011
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Kamu Johansen commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar'
So if it has encrypted serial output, what is actually reading and decrypting it? Is it software? The software could likely be reversed...
Nov 11, 2011
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YureZzZ commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar'
'm willing to hack that thing - but are they providing such device or I have to buy one myself? My postage rates will be much bigger than the device itself =(   LCD hacking can be done - but it is not the best way, believe me - I've…
Nov 11, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar'
Thanks to the moderator for editing my boring copy and poste post - it is looking better now. Here is another two devices - "doppler speedmeters" - How wheels radar gun - http://www.edparadis.com/radar/ and pocket radar…
Nov 10, 2011
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Mark Emerton commented on Dimitar Kolev's blog post 'Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar'
We know the device works and outputs good values to the screen. Since it's a simple 7-segment display for the numbers shown on the screen, why not take off the LCD and decode the outputs to the screen? Although for DIYDrone…
Nov 10, 2011
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Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar

From Sparkfun, a $100 prize if you can decrypt the serial output from a commercial laser tape measure so it can be possibly hacked into a sensor useful for robots: "This tutorial, "Laser Tape Measure…See More
Blog post by Dimitar Kolev Nov 10, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 'Slightly off topic, but I bet a few people will see the point.'
Cool gadget and good idea!
Oct 17, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Meet the Developers: Jose Julio'
Great video :-) (as always, I remember the quad tennis one). Last three years I was visiting Tenerife(Los Christianos), but never know Jose is living there. Great place to live and to have a work you enjoy.
Oct 13, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Vern joes's blog post 'Remzibi OSD copy hardware with 10hz GPS'
opensuprise.com.... what a sense of humor...  however that is the price of open source, if somebody decide to step into it, he should be prepared to face it. at least they use Remzibi name and not something twisted as the website name
Oct 11, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Robert Niehay's blog post 'Buttoning up 98" MQ-9 Build'
More pictures of GoPro and electronics mount will be appreciated. Looking forward to see first fly video :-)
Sep 22, 2011
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Dimitar Kolev commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Customer service!'
Welcome to Sweden or Bulgaria :-) Just let me know sometime before :-)
Sep 20, 2011

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Sparkfun hacking challenge: turn a laser tape measure into Lidar

Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:30am 6 Comments

From Sparkfun, a $100 prize if you can decrypt the serial output from a commercial laser tape measure so it can be possibly hacked into a sensor useful for robots: 

"This tutorial, "…

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Dimitar Kolev

Ar.drone challenge and finals in Paris and Las Vegas

Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:00am 0 Comments

Just found it...Far away from UAV challenge, but could be fun…

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FreeIMU + new pressure sensor

Posted on July 11, 2011 at 2:08am 17 Comments

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New ST AHRS(s)?

Posted on March 22, 2010 at 2:14am 24 Comments

Remove it, if it is a old news...



Version 1 / Price not available / Should be available after 20 March



http://www.st.com/stonline/products/families/evaluation_boards/steval-mki062v1.htm



Version 2 / Price not available / Q2 2010…



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