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dionh commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'ARM Arduino Coming!'
I wounder if the APM developers are still  using the Arduino environment.I still think RTOS is a good way to go.
Sep 16, 2011
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dionh commented on Chris VanHorn's blog post 'ArduVolans - my take on ArduPilot'
Chris, Nice looking board. I agree with Jani i would take the gps externally make the board a bit smaller and add usb for easy programing.
Sep 14, 2011
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dionh commented on Russell B. Sutton's blog post 'Compacted ESC's'
Yes, but if a regular ESC fail you only have to replace one which will obviously cost you less.
Jun 15, 2011
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dionh commented on Russell B. Sutton's blog post 'Compacted ESC's'
Ok this is nice. But what happens when one fail?
Jun 15, 2011
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dionh commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Who should we invite to be a DIY Drones podcast guest?'
Brian Wolf's development of the Picpilot
Jan 11, 2010
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dionh commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'This is why we picked Arduino--it's taking over the world!'
This is very interesting, in SA Pics is used a lot you can find the in most electronic shops whereas Atmel is very poorly supported. There has been some effort for a pic board its called Pinguino is an Arduino-like board based on a PIC…
Dec 30, 2009
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dionh commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'ArduIMU now available!'
How fast does the DCM run on the Arduino any specs
Sep 22, 2009
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dionh replied to Tom in ON's discussion 'Brushless Motor RPM Sensor'
It's very simple, if you can get hold of a old ball mouse inside is a optical pickup an a wheel with all the electronics, you just have to apply 5V If you turn the wheel you get a increase in frequency It should be easy to translate that to RPM…
Jun 29, 2009

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At 12:57am on June 2, 2009, Sarel P. WagnerSarel P. Wagner said…
Yes ordered the stuff from Sparkfun, payed Vat like normal, took about 2 weeks on delivery here. I got a stateside address so my stuff goes there first and when I'm ready I ship it via courier. Got 10Kg's off stuff in yesterday and the shipping was R 3000.00. Normally with smal shipme nts its about R500.00

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