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Blimp envelope payload

Started this discussion. Last reply by Morli Dec 9, 2009. 12 Replies

 

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AeroBoy commented on profmason's blog post Blimpduino project underway
"hey chris,just to check with you. ive got the xbee retail kit and how can i integrate it with the ardupilot 2.x?"
Aug 27, 2010

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Chris Anderson commented on profmason's blog post Blimpduino project underway
"If your wifi module weighs less than about 40 grams and can accept serial, yes. Otherwise, you're better off with Xbee modules."
Aug 2, 2010
AeroBoy commented on profmason's blog post Blimpduino project underway
"hi there, i am new to DIY and have decided to use Blimpduino for my autonomous flying robot project. I would like to know how i can integrate wifi onto it in order for me to transmit and receive from a ground station(which will send commands to the…"
Aug 2, 2010
Morli replied to profmason's discussion Blimp envelope payload
"What about these spectrum micro receiver weighing only 2 gms ?! that should leave lot of gms for any thing else :)"
Dec 9, 2009
Ricardo Colas replied to profmason's discussion Blimp envelope payload
"But how would you go about this? Do you heat the outside of the blimp, or do you come up with some crazy scheme to heat the inside?"
Dec 9, 2009

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Blimpduino project underway

Posted on January 14, 2009 at 8:04pm 5 Comments

I have a winter student doing a blimpduino as a project.





So far we have it out of the box and running the default beacon finding code with no problem. I am having the student go through the project as an opportunity to learn about microcontrollers, programming, navigation etc. If you want to follow our progress, you can look at: mtsacflight.blogspot.com



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