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Posts from ‘July, 2010’

The Flying Gator 2010-07-27 16:00:03

The UAV flew again yesterday afternoon for some more flight code testing.  We now have a level flight sequences andRead the Rest…

First Autonomous Flight

This is video of our first autonomous flight! It when well until we brought the plane in for its firstRead the Rest…

Video Soon… Hopefully

We have some flight video from last night on a camera that we borrowed from the library, but we areRead the Rest…

First Autonomous Test Flights Scheduled for Today July 22!

Just giving everyone a heads up that we will be attempting our first autonomous test flights tonight at 6 P.MRead the Rest…

OSCON is good

I’ll have to write a longer post later, but I thought I’d just mention that OSCON is a great conference. Our presentation went well, and we’ve had a lot of great conversations with people about all kinds of things in the open source world. More later… for now, it’s time to head out the door. [...]

Gator UAV Demo video

Hey Everyone We have successfully implemented code that controls servos, and more importantly it does so based on our IMU.Read the Rest…

using the admin web interface

Still playing with DJango I have been able to use the web interface to add and modify objects to the database.  Once the server is started, I can log in and add, view and make changes to existing objects.  In the dJango tutorial they use a Poll object as an example, as in a poll [...]

Ubuntu packages ready for testing

I can’t say that they’re perfect, nor can I say that they would make it into the Ubuntu repository. I made these packages, and by “made” I mean “hammered them out of a block of granite until they were so many tiny little shards of granite all ov…

Problem Solved!

One of the previous  blog posts mentioned a possible problem with the data that we had collected from our X-axisRead the Rest…

Maiden flight(s)

We flew the airplane for the first time Saturday the 10th of July around 6:00 P.M.  Once we took partRead the Rest…