Hi together,
just saw that Francisco put his PM
to me in the list already, thanks Francisco !
A short introduction only: my job for living is a hard- and firmware
developer since over 25 years (mostly assembler + ANSI-C and AVRs the
last 5 years) and my hobbys are R/C helis since 20 years (8 years
competitions) and R/C planes since 2 years. Another hobby is building
little surveillance robots with wheels, not legs :-) but for the robots
there is very few time remaining due to the activities with the planes
and helis. Last year I began with aerial photography with my little
T-Rex helicopter and at the same time I started with VP (Video Piloting a term from RCGroups) with my
MPX TwinStar II. That means a pan/tilt video camera on the plane
controlled via a headtracking device (Btw from switzerland :-) on video
goggles (for the pilot or a second person) from the ground. Very nice
experience.
For all this photo and video
activities I searched for a homing device (Return To Launch Autopilot)
for the case when the plane goes out of the reach of the R/C or in the
case of another failsafe condition. Yes and so i met Paparazzi on the
Web :-) ! As I'm more a software than a hardware developer I've decided
to sign in in the Paparazzi hardware list and started to learn a little
bit Linux :-) (unfortunately new for me). When the weather gets better
again I've to check out another "autopilot" (I know that's not a real
autopilot :-) on my TwinStar that lies on my workbench, a FMA FS8CPI
Co-Pilot. But I'm still very curious how those thermopiles are really
working. Oh yes, I nearly forgot another important project, the
semiscale copy of the UAV Aerosonde, it should be the successor of my
good old TwinStar when the electronics and cameras get bigger and
heavier :-) and should be at least also the carrier for the Paparazzi
hardware. Here a link to a running thread concerning this project (in
german): http://www.rclineforum.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=139288&sid=&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=&page=1
I hope I'm also able to contribute a
little bit to the very exciting project Paparazzi in the future.
Greets, Erwin
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