Nerds assemble! Raspberry pi close to launch date.
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So do I, but I remeber looking into it ages ago and the CAA restrictions on what counts as a UAV were pretty strict. May have another look and see if its still viable, as i'd love to have a crack at that
Actually it's not too bad. Commercial UAV is very strict but they are fine with hobbyists. Only restrictions are, fly on 2.4ghz or 5.8ghz, under 300ft and with a spotter. So in reality you won't have many problems.
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Thanks very much for that, was just wading through the CAA website! Was looking at some kind of auto flight stabiliser I found the other day just to lessen the strain of keeping one level, may start serious thinking now!
I thought you were using an arduino for this?
I don't think anyone flies without gyros lol. My one is gyro + accelerometer, not enabled the accelerometer yet as P.I.D are not quite right. My plan is just to hook up 2-4 webcams, then run a script that takes pictures every few minutes. Should be quite easy to do.
Yep I am, hopefully someone comes along and makes a flight controller for it. The problem is that it might need to be redeveloped or perhaps they will port multiwii, who knows. So until that happens it will be a simple webcam script that takes pictures.
Stop crying, they'll be back in stock soon.
They are getting a shipment of a finite number of units, and they are getting lots of orders. At some point the number of orders will equal the number of units in the shipment. At that point, what do you say other than they have "run out"?
The foundations own website is so flaky that they took all the content off and put a static page up, promising to put the forums etc back by 6pm. Where are they now? Down the pub.
Their website was the only 1 that wasnt down this morning.
And they made it clear at 6am this morning that they would be going to the pub to (rightfully) celebrate what has been a hugely successful project.
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I was thinking about having a wifi device to stream video directly. Think thats how I may have been breaking the regs, due to it being out of 'line of sight' or something. Still, I'll have to draw up some plans and pick you brains at some point if you wouldnt mind
Stop crying, they'll be back in stock soon.
They are getting a shipment of a finite number of units, and they are getting lots of orders. At some point the number of orders will equal the number of units in the shipment. At that point, what do you say other than they have "run out"?
Their website was the only 1 that wasnt down this morning.
And they made it clear at 6am this morning that they would be going to the pub to (rightfully) celebrate what has been a hugely successful project.
All very well, but it hardly paints a professional image when the creators don't know what their distributors are doing, especially posting tweets to the contrary of what is actually going on.
Suitable power supply?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arcadia-External-Motorola-Blackberry-Nintendo/dp/B004UN3N0W/ref=pd_cp_ce_1
Iam hoping for just one wire coming out of the case, just the hdmi with wireless K+M and internet, with all the dongles inside the case along with a either a usb memory stick or small drive.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arcadia-External-Motorola-Blackberry-Nintendo/dp/B004UN3N0W/ref=pd_cp_ce_1
Iam hoping for just one wire coming out of the case, just the hdmi with wireless K+M and internet, with all the dongles inside the case along with a either a usb memory stick or small drive.
I was thinking about having a wifi device to stream video directly. Think thats how I may have been breaking the regs, due to it being out of 'line of sight' or something. Still, I'll have to draw up some plans and pick you brains at some point if you wouldnt mind
Wifi is on 2.4Ghz, the video transmitter does not use wifi but uses something similar just different modulation. The main idea is that you have a high gain antenna, to increase the range. This is a nice website that has some good informationhttp://www.fpvuk.org/things-explained/vtx-power-and-range/. So you could use 2.4ghz video and 35Mhz transmitter. I have never done fpv before but have somewhat of an idea how it works, check out rc groups fpv section. I always say that you should walk before you run, start off with a quadcopter, trim it all out and get used to flying it. Remember that you are only going to get around 10 minutes flight, not much of a problem when batteries cost pennies though. So get a quad, sort that all out and then get into fpv. You want to have a good idea how much power the quad normally has as you will be lifting extra weight with fpv.
I was thinking about having a wifi device to stream video directly. Think thats how I may have been breaking the regs, due to it being out of 'line of sight' or something. Still, I'll have to draw up some plans and pick you brains at some point if you wouldnt mind
I know it probably wouldn't be allowed but my question a while back in the rc plane thread was is it possible to fly via a laptop using the internet and a mobile or 3g dongle, if so imagine how long range a uav could be, you could send it off to some gps coordinates in the next town over presuming you have enough power, all while sending back video live over the internet and mobile network which automatically jumps from tower to tower, how cool would that be!?
They aren't professional. They are charging you $35. If you wanted a professional image you'd be paying double for it.
The assumptions that i made, based on various twitter posts etc, was that the distributors were either not following the agreement, or were not following it in the way RaspberryPi expected.
I would guess that they completely underestimated the popularity of it (they were told in advance that they would get a huge surge of traffic to their sites, but they obviously didnt believe it, or underestimated it) they thought nobody would care about the Pi, so they sold it in a way which required minimal effort by their web teams, rather than what they agreed on, expecting minimal sales and therefore no complaints. I think that the fact that neither of them had any mention of the Pi on their front page, and no news topic about it shows what they thought about it.
Obviously this is all my own opinion of what happened and could be completely wrong.
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I know it probably wouldn't be allowed but my question a while back in the rc plane thread was is it possible to fly via a laptop using the internet and a mobile or 3g dongle, if so imagine how long range a uav could be, you could send it off to some gps coordinates in the next town over presuming you have enough power, all while sending back video live over the internet and mobile network which automatically jumps from tower to tower, how cool would that be!?
Im pretty sure thats where my original plan fell down
dont think thats allowed without an official licence