If you're about to deal with interested parties overseas, consider this:

Maryland woman charged with illegal export of miniature aircraft controls to China

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland woman was charged Friday with exporting miniature controls for small unmanned aircraft to China.

The…

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The BASIC Stamp and Arduino aren't the only microcontrollers out there. The Parallax Propeller chip, as many of you have already discovered, is a more powerful microcontroller. Boasting eight 32-bit processors, it is… Continue

Joe Brennan, the competition director, has emailed me the results of the AUVSI student competition mentioned in the last post. After a lot of googling, I have… Continue

The Sixth Annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition was held on June 18-22, 2008 (see competition website).



There hasn't been much buzz generated on the internet about the competition. However, one of the local Maryland newspapers has covered it.



Student engineers send creations into aerial competition Webster Field hosts UAV… Continue

Don't let that image intimidate you. It's not that bad! I was surfing on the Parallax Propeller forums and I noticed a post on PID controllers for UAVs that might be useful to some of you:



PID Stuff… Continue