Archive for July, 2008
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Another day of J-B welding. Managed to crash right side up again, with pride. -
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Another Sissel flashback. The penguin torturing scene in TooGoobe definition. Novegians use flybars. -
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A 1986 flashback. Where could you show off an oil rig in today's political climate? -
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Times were different back then. -
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453 airborn frames extremely motion tracked & stacked.
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In the wind tunnel at throttle=0.55. IMU readouts definitely look like what we saw. Extremely gusty winds. U can't blame the navigation for the wild turns. -
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Had a roll anomaly & loss of position hold. Needed a 30' pitch when facing directly downwind in this case. That converted to a 30' roll in the turn. The equilibrium attitude didn't work at very high angles of attack. -
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throttle=0.60 gave tighter heading, but not Futaba fantastic
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These R better shots in front of Moffet field than the crummy video camera could get. This time, wanted the smoothest color possible. Need to try again with maximum ISO & smallest F-Stop or drive to Mountain View. -
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This is a calibration shot on the ground. CHDK requires several shots to be taken manually before continuous exposure works from the computer. -
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Unfortunately, exposure became unlocked during flight & everything got underexposed. The light meter in these $140 cameras doesn't work. -
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These were shot from 300ft AGL. The tail oscillation got dangerously close to spinning out of control before we trimmed it & headed down. -
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Another American, yearning for a blood bailout. -
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This American learned to walk on 5 legs. Very desperate. -
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This is how we reprogram the ESC. The computer boots several seconds after the PWM generator starts generating its default minimum throttle tone, so U need to boot the ESC on a second battery. -
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Without a common ground. The ESC should never need reprogramming, but this isn't your father's Chinese imperialist self destructing ESC. -
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Locked & loaded again. -
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Time to replace the O rings. -
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How we release the battery. -
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Like a BARF train about to crash.
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This shot got our attention. It bleeds with late 80's color & like anything which was living in the 80's, it looks extremely old & distant. It's an early morning shot of Bass lake in 1988. The late 80's produced hazy color. -
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Today's shots R unique. Google has made bleeding colors, macroblocking, mosquito artifacts, blurry focus, & shaking the look of the 00's. You'll always recognize a video from the 00's because it looks older than 1930. -
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This was doing some turns in the wind. Almost autonomous landing. Commanded descent with manual engine shutdown. Position hold was still on.
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Sadly, many of the extremely soft pins on our retired Opterons are bent, probably making the $1000 chips worthless. They delivered our first HDR astophotographs & HD movies. They're roughly as fast as any modern CPU. -
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Astrophotograph processed on the 2005 DuOp. -
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Americans invaded the dumpy apartment. -
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1 byte & he'll turn U into an American. -
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Have been bitten hundreds of times & have the tax liability to prove it. -
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Craving blood.