"Didn´t the 9/11 terrorists take flight training in regular flying shools?
There are so many past examples where registration or licensing did not prevent crimes...
The best protection is the community itself by giving obviously…"
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MarcS commented on Chris Anderson's blog post LA Times op-ed: Overturn RC rules and make UAV hobbyists get licenses!MarcS commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?"@ anfroholic
just saw the video... totally unrealistic numbers about costs and maintanance of the vehicles (1000$ + 100$/year). Even hobby drones cost more than that :-) An we are talking about a business here. And then start talking about…"
MarcS commented on wayne garris's blog post techpod EPO foam"Wayne, intersting project.
You got numbers on endurance vs. payload?"
MarcS commented on Doug Weibel's blog post Best Quads doing stuff video"Final Video of a TED-Talk of Vijay Kumar, see here: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/music-anyone
and here: http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
Cheers"
MarcS commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Music anyone"Jaan, I was asking myself the same question, especially after seeing the recently posted TED-Talk: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ted-talk-on-u-penn-swarming-quads-now-live
At about 9:45min he talks about "decentralized control" (and…"
MarcS commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post Music anyone"Hmmm, a nice video again.
Now we just need Vicon everywhere and we can do something useful with these systems..."
MarcS commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Fast Company article on drones used by Hollywood"What makes me wonder is that one of the longest running an probably most professional companies in the UAV movie filming bisuness is never mentioned: http://flying-cam.com/
They are filming since roughly 15 years and are probably quite hit by the…"
MarcS commented on JP's blog post Our sweet little web based Aerial Imagery and UAV Flight Tracker with Ortho-Mosaic/GIS/KMZ Tile Builder. Beautiful Orthophotos!"Ross, you are saying you are calculating the absolute position and orientation of the result by use of GPS? The accuracy will then be limited by GPS and IMU quality, so I guess would be correct to about some meters, at best... The placement of…"
MarcS commented on JP's blog post Our sweet little web based Aerial Imagery and UAV Flight Tracker with Ortho-Mosaic/GIS/KMZ Tile Builder. Beautiful Orthophotos!"Hi,
could you explain a little more whats the main intention of the project? Image processing is a nice thing, but if its open source why upload all the images to process? Are you providing a cluster? Will you collect the results for a beginning of…"
MarcS commented on George Tarrant's blog post Fast-track PID lop setup"George, I think your last question is the most important one in the scope of DIY... The goal of most people will be to just let the plane fly autonomous at all. So some see your offer as a way to make this easier. For this task I´m not sure if…"
MarcS commented on ionut's blog post Improving GPS accuracy"Simon, you should separate RTK and RTKlib, otherwise we will end in confusion here :-) RTK receivers work in pairs without additional PC for the processing... (Thats what Wolfgang called base station mode..)
Wolfgang, are you talking about the RTK…"
MarcS commented on ionut's blog post Improving GPS accuracy"Did anybody try rtklib on a plane/Copter? Whats the accuracy? Does it work in high dynamics?
I think all solutions apart from "real RTK" using L1/L2 will provide resolution in the meter domain, especially in altitude... Which means for the…"
MarcS commented on George Tarrant's blog post Fast-track PID lop setup"Hi, from reading the description this is model identification followed parameter calculation for the PID?
I know some universities doing or having done research in this field and even when the methods were using more or better sensors (IMU,…"
MarcS commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM-powered hexacopter project on Kickstarter"So what´s to learn from this event:
There is a demand for profesional easy to use camera copters... at low prices... (Probably driven by the media hype aound the topic)
Problem is that a professional system including all the service will not…"
MarcS commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM-powered hexacopter project on Kickstarter"The whole thread led me to a more general question: How is documentation you produce and sell with a product based on GPL hard/software to be licensed?
If the company in our example here provides manuals and videos (which they will have to, to…"
MarcS commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM-powered hexacopter project on Kickstarter"John, good find, this seams to clear the intentions of the kickstarter... Make quick money...
So not only APM is taken from a finished product, also frame. Too bad.."
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Anti whaling activists using UAV to track whaling fleet
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 6:59am 26 Comments 5 Likes
Just found this in the news:
ContinueThe Sea Shepherd ship, Steve Irwin, deployed a drone to successfully locate and photograph the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru on December 24th.…
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- At 1:24pm on September 20, 2011,
Veikko Vierola said… Hi, is that Cularis in the picture?
- At 1:47pm on September 20, 2011, MarcS said…
Hi Veikko,
close :-) it´s an Easy-Glider...
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