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I am a designer & mechanical engineer.
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I document my UAV endeavors in my blog here: http://robotpig.net/blogs/UAVs.php . I am also the editor of http://robotpig.net and a member of http://robotspodcast.com
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agmatthews commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
To these guys it clearly is a flying object that they can not identify, in other words an Unidentified Flying Object = UFO. Would not have taken much too identify it. Bad lazy journalism
Dec 18, 2011
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IKE commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Details on how Iran may have used a GPS override spoof to capture US drone'
Aviation Week article about this theory: summarizing it in two words: extremely unlikely
Dec 16, 2011
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IKE commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
John that is exactly right. I really doubt that everyone there thought it was a UFO or something else than a small drone. I find it more likely that the journalist saw the footage and made the story.
Dec 15, 2011
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Fab - Arduino for Visual Studio commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
@John. Don't we know it!
Dec 15, 2011
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John Arne Birkeland commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
Very god example on how modern news "journalism" works. It is not about documenting fact, but making stories that sell.
Dec 15, 2011
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Tero Koivunen commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
Pictures "UFO" took: http://www.ridus.ru/news/14365/
Dec 14, 2011
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Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
It had to happen......... :)    
Dec 14, 2011
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Kirill commented on IKE's blog post 'Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!'
Nice! :-)
Dec 14, 2011

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Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!

Posted on December 13, 2011 at 3:44pm 13 Comments

That is just too funny! A post from UK newspaper Telegraph has the title: Russian protesters film UFO over Moscow and show a video with a small hexcopter drone, that shoot video like…

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RC Avatar-like twin rotor heli from flite test

Posted on November 14, 2011 at 3:30pm 9 Comments

 

What do you think about that? It is similar in concept with the helicopters from the movie Avatar, it uses differential thrust and independent tilt for each rotor. It doesn't look very stable but this looks like a very primitive prototype. Maybe it has the potential for something quite…

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Quadrocopter from Flying Machine Arena learns to follow trajectories

Posted on September 9, 2011 at 6:23am 0 Comments





The now famous Flying Machine Arena from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) uploaded another video. This time they demonstrate the ability of the system to learn through practice. By using data from past experiments the quad is able to follow the exact trajectory given as a target, even if there are changes to the… Continue
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20 mach UAV - DARPA Falcon HTV2

Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:53am 2 Comments

 

Today DARPA will launch the second HTV2 that explores the 20mach region. It is launched aboard a Minotaur IV rocket and after re-entering Earth's atmosphere it glides until its destruction. At this altitude 20 mach translates to 13.000mph and DARPA states that the control system is one of the three key technical areas of the program (along with…

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Quad fails - GRASP Lab / University of Pennsylvania

Posted on June 30, 2011 at 5:58am 6 Comments





You have to break some eggs to make omelet :P This video is a collection of fail quad manoeuvrings from GRASP Lab / University of Pennsylvania, via Automaton blog - IEEE…

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