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by blutack 10y ago
Just so people are aware that ESA weren't necessarily directly responsible for writing the software, the RTPU (the computer handling the landing sequencing) seems to have been outsourced to a company called Terma (via Thales). I can&#
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by blutack 10y ago
I would hope that it was a sensor fusion error. IMU saturation is an expected condition, especially in this type of extreme real-world environment. It's absolutely normal to temporarily saturate IMU sensors on drones during hard landin
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by blutack 10y ago
SkyCircuits | UI & Embedded | Salisbury, UK | Onsite | Full-time | £25-40K SkyCircuits specialises in manned and unmanned aircraft operations and technology. Our business is rapidly expanding in exciting and technically challenging area
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by blutack 10y ago
SkyCircuits | UI & Embedded | Salisbury, UK | Onsite | Full-time | £25-40K SkyCircuits specialises in manned and unmanned aircraft operations and technology. Our business is rapidly expanding in exciting and technically challenging area
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by blutack 11y ago
SkyCircuits Ltd | http://www.skycircuits.com/ | Salisbury, UK [ONSITE] We specialise in manned and unmanned aircraft operations and technology. Our business is rapidly expanding in one of the most exciting and technically c
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by blutack 11y ago
SkyCircuits Ltd | http://www.skycircuits.com/ | Salisbury, UK [ONSITE] We specialise in manned and unmanned aircraft operations and technology. Our business is rapidly expanding in one of the most exciting and technically c
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How long does it take to buy basic goods in Venezuela?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by blutack 12y ago|0 comments
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by blutack 12y ago
Research Associate in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Manchester, UK School of MACE, University of Manchester (6 month post, £30-37k per annum). The GAMMA project is consortium of North West Universities, BAESYSTEMS, NNL and NWAA seeking to stim
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by blutack 12y ago
Seeing as the original site has now fallen over, the actual youtube link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs
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by blutack 12y ago
GaitSym is an awesome piece of open source software that has been used to model how dinosaurs walked, amongst other things. http://www.animalsimulation.org/
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by blutack 12y ago
For those of us in the UK who'd like to read an article about a UK airport written by a UK media organisation... http://web.archive.org/web/20140912134733/http://www.bbc.com...
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by blutack 12y ago
When there is an incident, I don't think it'll be a $3000 turbine powered aircraft. The people operating & flying these things are likely to know what they are doing - and if they don't it'll be in bits far before it
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by blutack 12y ago
Yep, the CAA (and the BMFA, a voluntary organisation who admin the <20kg stuff) are quite pleasant to deal with. It'll probably get privatised and subbed out to the lowest bidder at some point.
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by blutack 12y ago
As a counterpoint, in the UK: - Under 7kg you must be able to see it well enough to avoid collisions with stuff - Between 7-20kg stick below 400ft - Above 20kg it's more complex; everything else applies to <20kg aircraft - If you&#x
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What does it mean to be a modern patriot?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by blutack 12y ago|0 comments
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by blutack 13y ago
This sounds similar to the UK's CAP722, which is the basis for commercial UAS flying over here. As jccooper said, the immediate industries affected by this will be those which gather imagery or video. In the UK, there is a restriction
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by blutack 13y ago
As an easier to obtain alternative to minicom, screen can also handle serial port communications quite happily for basic usecases (like this one). screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 # Linux-centric example
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by blutack 13y ago
They actually have a quote builder on that page; you too can build your dream drone! Although you'll need to budget an additional ~$20k depending on autopilot system.
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by blutack 13y ago
There are loads, but they wouldn't be cost effective (or legal) in the US for this. Random example: http://www.uavfactory.com/product/46
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by blutack 13y ago
He said he was unimpressed by east London's multiracial neighbourhoods, telling one British user of the forum: "It's where all of your Muslims live. I didn't want to get out of the car." Is this quote verifiable?
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We don't have permission to send you marketing emails...
1 points by blutack 13y ago|0 comments
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The Galaga No-fire Cheat(computerarcheology.com)
2 points by blutack 13y ago|0 comments
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WS2812 LEDs controlled by an iMX233(spritesmods.com)
1 points by blutack 13y ago|0 comments
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by blutack 13y ago
The House (and I) agree with you. I believe the hope is that this pardon of a well-known & loved figure in the UK will raise awareness in order to force the government to nullify all convictions resulting from this law. Sixteen thousan
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by blutack 13y ago
You can also get a Nook Glowlight in the UK for £49, less than half the price of the Paperwhite. Spec isn't as good but it does support standard epub books. http://www.nook.com/gb/tablets/nook-simple-touch-glo
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by blutack 13y ago
FreeMAT is a really good OS clone of Matlab. http://freemat.sourceforge.net/
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by blutack 13y ago
> I don't know what Mocana or Thales do Thales are a large defense contractor - a French equivalent of BAE Systems or General Atomics. Not particularly famous for corporate integrity [0]. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by blutack 13y ago
Cheers, that looks really interesting. I usually use pythonxy[0] nowadays on operating systems without package managers, but I'll give that a go next time. 0: https://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/
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by blutack 13y ago
SageMath[0] is another alternative, which I personally prefer as it's a bit more mature. I also had a bad experience with Enthought EPD which resulted in a weirdly broken system python. 0: http://www.sagemath.org/
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by blutack 13y ago
Not sure how Manchester could be beloved of anyone.

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