So who knows a bit about electronics?

[Hans]

ahh. well, you'll naturally get longer range on the lower frequency. the mainest thing i can think would be upgrade all your "patch" antennas.
or chuck it all and buy a quadrotor (youtube FPS russia, quadrotor)

now i wanna come see....

Already have one of those....

[Hans]

More dronage for you....

[pete376403]

wow. I though hexacopter and octocopter were pretty cool, but that could be a whole lot of fun

[Hans]

Not bad for causing UFO sightings around the Hutt. This one flies itself, click on a map and off it goes...

[pete376403]

do you have the machine gun option? If so, I have a small job for you.

[Hans]

do you have the machine gun option? If so, I have a small job for you.

No, but I can deposit stuff with about 1m accuracy...

[bogan]

Not bad for causing UFO sightings around the Hutt. This one flies itself, click on a map and off it goes...

Thats pretty cool, how many flights/distance/crashes has it done so far?

Uni project, comercial application, or just for fun?

[Hans]

Thats pretty cool, how many flights/distance/crashes has it done so far?

Uni project, comercial application, or just for fun?

500+ flights, 2 serious crashes. Basically started as a hobby (something to keep the brain busy while working a mundane job), now it's slowly morphing into a commercial thing.

Specs:

15 minute flight time (+/- 2 minutes)
500g payload (can be airdropped or laid down)

Automated flight:

-hold position and/or altitude (GPS+sonar+barometer)
-fly way points
-return to launch point and autoland
and a shitload of less usable stuff

It also has telemetry and control via a laptop-based ground station.

Took about a year to bring to maturity as a system.

Now I'm working on a plane with much better capabilities...

[The Lone Rider]

Can I ask, what are those things used for?

[Hans]

Can I ask, what are those things used for?

You mean multicopters? Just about anything you can imagine, but typically for aerial photography.

[Akzle]

You mean multicopters? Just about anything you can imagine, but typically for aerial photography.

read: perving on the cocky's wife

i am SO coming for a dekko.

15 mins is a bit shy/ what Ah are that? you using straight squirrel cage motors?

[Hans]

read: perving on the cocky's wife

i am SO coming for a dekko.

15 mins is a bit shy/ what Ah are that? you using straight squirrel cage motors?

Round about 15 minutes on a 4Ah 12v battery. The motors are brushless... It's not bad considering you've got 4 motors to feed and quite a few electronic bits and bobs. It weighs around 2kg too.

[Hans]

Here it is, almost done...

[Akzle]

Here it is, almost done...

dude. you might want a more stable OS than windows... when you've got the warheads strapped to it, the blue screen of death (unhandled exception 0xe000000047) could end up in thermo-nuclear death.

(linux that shit!)

[Hans]

dude. you might want a more stable OS than windows... when you've got the warheads strapped to it, the blue screen of death (unhandled exception 0xe000000047) could end up in thermo-nuclear death.

(linux that shit!)

Meh.

a) Windoze is good enough for NASA - It's good enough for me,

b) Loss of telemetry just means that the aircraft either continues the mission without me watching it, or climbs to a set altitude and returns to the launch point, where it circles until I feel like landing it.