Wow, scrolling through that article was really disturbing. I guess I need to get used to this kind of presentation.
What do you mean by disturbing? To me it felt sort of like a slideshow, but a little smoother to navigate.
Making a brain for my model plane
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Re: Making a brain for my model plane
#62Hmm, on Firefox 33.0.3 on CentOS 6, it is just a lot of white space with some text interspersed. I'm guessing I'm missing something :-)
That said, the availability and usability of these 9 DOF modules has really made this sort of stuff doable for folks. Opens up a lot of possibilities and for me at least I think it is the single biggest reason the quadcopter market exists :-)
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#63This is excellent in every way. Not only building a homemade UAV, but the presentation was spot on. I expected the page to run badly with all that big content but had no problems. The images and video add so much and not even a single click required!
In an an iPhone the videos of the site are broken. So much better expirience from the desktop browser!
let me add it was terrible for me. I'm using a modern macbook pro over a slow 3g connection (there's not currently wired connection near by).
As soon as the page content loads, I hit "ESC" to stop loading images.. with most sites this approach just works,
this was not the case..
Anyways, this looks like a really great project and looking forward to re-open over a wired full-speed connection.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
The electronics for something carrying passengers would hopefully be a bit more rugged than an arduino or a raspi. I suspect that you're optimizing for the wrong variables here. Aduino and raspi are not groundbreaking for capabilities or format and inventions are rarely stopped by the price point of the development platform, if anything they are stopped by a lack of market, timing or physics.
Single passenger, and initial versions will not be self-powered but rather towed. I already have a very close friend who pokes holes in my ideas and innovations, and I certainly don't expect most people on here to understand the short, medium, and long-term goals of my concept. The innovation is one of physics, I'm simply mentioning the tools with respect to this discussion / item being shared. Frankly it's actually…
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#65Laggy pop-in scrolling, autoplaying sound with no way to disable, yep this article ain't for me.
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#66Super super nice web page design.
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#67This is excellent in every way. Not only building a homemade UAV, but the presentation was spot on. I expected the page to run badly with all that big content but had no problems. The images and video add so much and not even a single click required!
(Jonny the author here) Thanks for the kind words! This is primarily a taster article to introduce the UAV project, I intend to write a more technical report and publish the designs/code in due time (and some more videos!). The presentation uses Story Glass, also a project of mine, which we hope to offer soon as a service. It is an experience, lying in a damp field shooting a video to think about how the text will fl…
How are you planning to reliably serve all the video content? I am looking to have a similar static site with a bunch of videos and am debating between Youtube, Vimeo, mp4/webm over some cdn.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a programmer who'd never tried electronics till an year ago but have now managed to build a few things - that even involve homemade PCBs and SMD soldering. 1) I started by buying an arduino, a starter kit and some simple sensors and actuators - ultrasonic, gyro, servos, motor driver - on ebay. 2) read Pratt's "Make Electronics" and Wiley's "Electronics for Dummies" 3) started making. Understood theoretical concep…
Can you share which components you bought to start with, i.e which starter kit, which sensors / motors, etc? Thanks!
There's no dearth of starter kits. Just search for arduino starter kit on Ebay or Sparkfun. They come with an assortment of components like resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, 9V battery connector and a few sensors.
Additionally, I bought a couple of the widely available HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensors, a couple of turnigy small servos, an L293 motor driver, couple of L-shaped BO DC motors, and robot chassis. Just search for those terms on ebay.
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#69This is excellent in every way. Not only building a homemade UAV, but the presentation was spot on. I expected the page to run badly with all that big content but had no problems. The images and video add so much and not even a single click required!
(Jonny the author here) Thanks for the kind words! This is primarily a taster article to introduce the UAV project, I intend to write a more technical report and publish the designs/code in due time (and some more videos!). The presentation uses Story Glass, also a project of mine, which we hope to offer soon as a service. It is an experience, lying in a damp field shooting a video to think about how the text will fl…
A small bit of feedback - The only issue I have with this style is offline reading: I tend to print every webpage I'm interested in to PDF files for offline reference. Story Glass doesn't really work very well for that - the PDF I got was not formatted and not usable.
Re: Making a brain for my model plane
#70Awesome. Is this sort of thing usually done with RC planes? I've been watching a few RC plane videos lately - there seem to be a lot of pilots out there who could benefit from electronics to help land their planes - especially those who've spent a ton of money on really nice setups like this guy: [1] [1] http://youtu.be/nQJ3TzSZkpo
There are products out there with names like "EZ Fly" and "SAFE mode" which do exactly as you describe - fly the plane for you so that you can get your wings stretched as a new pilot. My kids often have to engage SAFE mode on final approach so they don't cartwheel into the ground - its fantastic for that sort of situation where you really do have a thin line between flight and boom.