Michael Zaffuto
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EasyStar - Best Birthday Present Ever!!

Started this discussion. Last reply by James Harwood Nov 2, 2009. 2 Replies

 

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Michael Zaffuto commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Details on how Iran may have used a GPS override spoof to capture US drone'
Celestial navigation involving daylight capable star tracking obviates the need for GPS.
Dec 17, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Follow the progress of the Wave Glider UUVs on Google Earth'
Everything Old is New Again .... :P Popular Mechanic 1949 WaveRunner  
Nov 18, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Scott Plunkett's blog post 'New meaning for the phrase "Don't Mess With Texas;" Texas Sheriff's office receives weaponizable drone, alarms local news station'
Approximately 550 nanometers (One measureable wavelength of green light) would be my guess.
Nov 4, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Curt Olson's blog post 'UAS Search and Rescue Demo (Simulation)'
That's a good Crikey as in wow amazing much much respect for your talent, I've got just the pefect workstation to try it on, will provide feedback on your installation instructions.  Thanks!  
Sep 26, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Curt Olson's blog post 'UAS Search and Rescue Demo (Simulation)'
I second the Crikey!
Sep 26, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto replied to Cliff Gill's discussion 'SZD-45 OGAR airframe, enlarged skywalker substitute?'
Payload bay looks cavernous... EPO construction...may be worth a try. The tri-blade folding prop is a nice touch.  
Aug 23, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on brett binnekade's blog post 'Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS'
@Martin...from spaceweather.com... I remember something about this event..but wow.. 0.8 of a Lunar Distance!?! 2005 YU55 Nov 8 0.8 LD -- 175 m The java simulation, http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005%20YU55&orb=1  , puts…
Aug 16, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Is the GPS system endangered in the US?'
Looks like the right people are sounding the alarm on this, "The two co-chairs of the U.S. National Advisory Board for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, the Hon. James R. Schlesinger and Dr. Bradford Parkinson, have delivered an…
Aug 5, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Is the GPS system endangered in the US?'
We'll have to see how good this works: http://www51.honeywell.com/aero/common/documents/myaerospacecatalog-documents/Missiles-Munitions3/GPS-CRPA_Anti-Jam_Antenna.pdf
Aug 5, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on diego colonnello's blog post 'Do you think APM can handle this airframe????? :-) sure it can!!!!!'
fantastic...big is beautiful!  look forward to your video posts in future, hopefully...airframe envy :) ..lol!!!
Aug 3, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto replied to Jaime Felipe's discussion 'Voltage measurement problem'
This may help: http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/reading-voltages-for-lipol   parameters are in config.h   // Battery monitoring // #ifndef BATTERY_EVENT # define…
Jul 19, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto commented on Denny Rowland's blog post 'Aerodynamic efficiency'
Vibration, prop flutter?  The prop blade tips are going into and out of different pressure zones, curious if there is an increase in prop induced vibrations.
Jul 16, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto replied to Jan Martin's discussion 'How to add a GPS receiver to the 9 Degrees of Freedom - Razor IMU - AHRS?'
Adding the GPS parser/output code to this library example is possible as well:   This file provides the needed library for all of the sensors, especially the ITG3200 on the…
Jul 8, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto replied to Jan Martin's discussion 'How to add a GPS receiver to the 9 Degrees of Freedom - Razor IMU - AHRS?'
Jani's approach is fine . . . as long as you are using a GPS that doesn't require initialization.   The MediaTek MT3229: http://store.diydrones.com/MediaTek_MT3329_GPS_10Hz_Adapter_Basic_p/mt3329-02.htm   comes pre-configured,…
Jul 7, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto replied to Jan Martin's discussion 'How to add a GPS receiver to the 9 Degrees of Freedom - Razor IMU - AHRS?'
The GPS model you are planning to use may have an impact on the most suitable connection in regards to direct compatibility with the existing parsers available in the libraries.  In order to use gps units that require initialization, such as…
Jul 7, 2011
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Michael Zaffuto replied to jasonshort's discussion 'Arducopter Drift issues'
Before raising it as an issue, it would be important for someone to actual determine that the aliasing is an observable problem during flight and that it is correlated to the drift issue.  The first order filter values could be adjusted…
Jun 14, 2011

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Are Uthere?

Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:54pm 4 Comments



Seen this in one of the latest R/C mags...

Claims to have flight modes to aid R/C beginners...

Fly by wire, Loiter, Autonomous Landing, Panic Mode

Doesn't appear to be open source..seems to have some familiar components though,



Pictures and Article:…

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Michael Zaffuto

Netduino - .NET Micro Framework Arduino Compatible Board

Posted on August 4, 2010 at 7:30pm 8 Comments

Powered by a 48 Mhz Atmel AT91SAM7X512 Free tools, all open source code and hardware .NET Micro Framework Event-based programming, multi-threading, line-by-line debugging, and breakpoints.

http://www.netduino.com/

Amazing price I think for only $34.95...mine is coming this Friday...new toys. This will bring a lot of high level programmers into the embedded world, I believe. What would…

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Invensense ITG-3200, World’s First Digital 3-axis Gyro available

Posted on April 1, 2010 at 8:30pm 14 Comments

I'm sure alot of us have been waiting with anticipation for this one.Let's get some samples and/or eval board and…

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At 10:44am on December 29, 2010, diego colonnellodiego colonnello said…

hello sir! you are the owner of the www.uavdrones.com domain? jejejejejeje because of you i chose to get the .net and .org !!!!!!!!

 

Nice to meet you!!!

 

diego.

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