Simon Kerr
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Simon Kerr commented on Marooned's blog post [changed] Helicopter ground resonance
"Reminded me of a full sized incident that happened locally recently. I know it's not ground resonance (muppet on ground pulls cable into main rotor), but impressive anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aMT9MBfZI …"
Mar 1
Simon Kerr commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 3D printed gyro-stabilized pan-tilt gimbal for the GoPro
"Cool. Now can we daisy-chain a second one off the head of the first with higher sensitivity sensors to make the head movement even smoother (i.e. less susceptible to platform vibration and rapid movement). Would that work?"
Apr 5, 2011
Simon Kerr commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New Arduinos announced!
"Would love to see an arduino with native USB and USB host ability without the need for a shield."
Sep 26, 2010
Simon Kerr commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Quick and dirty methods for fully automatic photomapping on the field
"@brakar, Have you tried using some tool like Advanced JPEG Compressor? I use it to batch compress photos before loading them into Google Earth or Global Mapper. You can tweak the setttings, but the default settings generally cut the file size by 80…"
May 12, 2010
Simon Kerr replied to Oliver's discussion Printed wing concept
"I concur with Troy below. I'm in Auckland, and my brother grabbed some scraps of foam insulation from a building site. He commented that it seemed ideal for carving a wing out of. I'll try get hold of some of those scraps for a closer…"
Apr 28, 2010
Simon Kerr replied to Mark Willis's discussion Making Digital Elevations Models (DEM) on the cheap
"I'm using Ubuntu, but am about to install Windows 7 via Virtualbox and reluctantly go down the Photosynth path."
Feb 13, 2010
Simon Kerr replied to Mark Willis's discussion Making Digital Elevations Models (DEM) on the cheap
"Is there a package version of Bundler anywhere? I tried following the instructions that came with the binary, but failed. It appears to run, but the output file is 0 bytes."
Feb 11, 2010
Simon Kerr commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Autopilot brownies
"I think I just threw up a little... :'("
Jan 19, 2010

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About Me:
B.Sc in Electronics, used to be in Army Signals, so know a decent amount about RF, although not at a PCB level. Now working as an avionics maintenance engineer.

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New Sparkfun Toys - Atomic IMU 6 DoF

Posted on April 1, 2009 at 4:00pm 24 Comments



New IMU offered by Sparkfun here. I think this board has some great potential that could lead to some all singing, all dancing Arduino-native IMU.



The fact that this IMU is built around the ATMege 168 makes me think that it could be re-flashed to become some sort of "ArduIMU" board, and even run a ported version of the "Premerlani-Bizard robust direction… Continue

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