jonny5532

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   by jonny5532 12y ago

   (Jonny the author here) I plan to write this up more completely, but here are some more technical details: Most of the bits (the foam plane, servos, speed controller, radio modules, IMU, barometer and GPS) came from eBay or HobbyKing. I sta
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   by jonny5532 12y ago

   (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 present
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   by jonny5532 12y ago

   (Jonny the author here) At the moment the control is proportional - the microcontroller works out the difference between the desired angle (set by the pilot on the ground) and the actual angle (as reported by the IMU algorithm fed by the gy
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   by jonny5532 13y ago

   A neat trick with uWSGI is to dynamically set the number of worker processes to 0, which causes incoming requests to hang whilst waiting to be processed by no-longer-extant workers. As long as you can apply DB migrations before the waiting