Comments on: 25C3 hardware workshops http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TJHooker http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54488 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:15:28 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54488 on a related note: anyone know where to get a RC setup that can do at least 0.8 miles that doesn’t cost a thousand bucks, more like 300, or a set of schematics?

Also i’m interested in digital shortwave stuff, which still seems obscure to people without hundreds of thousand of dollars for industrial application specs.

]]> By: dan http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54309 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:09:04 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54309 Yeah, I have one like in the picture above.. that dome on top is the mechanical gyro. The problem is that it starts to drift and eventually hits the side of the casing, causing the control system to fail. It will then proceed to fall out of the sky.

I haven’t actually gotten it to stay aloft for more than 30 seconds or so. The only problem is that one (the X-UFO) runs about $150 vs. $800 for a DraganFlyer with electronic stabilization. Yikes.

]]> By: Sammy http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54234 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:59:46 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54234 @ t0ny@t0ny.org

Unlucky.

How about helicopter fishing?

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nW150U-RuTE

Not really along the lines of quadcopters but funny.

]]> By: t0ny@t0ny.org http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54227 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:22:40 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54227 I had one of those rc quadcopters, if you buy one DONT buy ones uses the mechanical gyros. They have a high rate of failing. Happened to mine about 30 feet from the ground.

]]> By: bigalexe http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54226 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:13:47 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54226 read that book, dont think it relates to UAV’s until they get Hive capability.

]]> By: icefox http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54211 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:04:02 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54211 Did anybody here read Prey from Michael Crichton? Every time someone says they’re working on a uav, i think about that book.

]]> By: Sammy http://hackaday.com/2008/12/07/25c3-hardware-workshops/comment-page-1/#comment-54206 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:37:15 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6701#comment-54206 I’m making something very similar to that, I bought a remote controlled UFO and I’m adding more motors for it so it won’t spin around while flying. Then I’ll add an Atmega 8 as my micro controller and I’m thinking of sonar as my sensors or photo resistors. I would have Infrared but sunlight can effects it’s results. For now ill have it attached to fishing wire so it doesn’t go too high, but eventually I will add some sort of altimeter.

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