DIY Drones Podcast (AAC)

Chad Frost shares stories from NASA's autonomous systems and robotics department and his thoughts on civilian usage of UAVs.

Abe Bachrach, a graduate student at MIT answers our questions on LIDAR-equipped quadcopters.

We're back after two weeks off with Jason Short, discussing the ArduPilot 2.5 software.

Steve Morris of MLB joins us to talk about his VTOL UAV, ITAR export regulations and the nuisances of being in the UAV business.

Patrick Egan attempts to guide us through the legal waters surrounding UAVs.

The VectorNav team talks to us about starting a business and IMUs.

Guest Gary Mortimer wakes up early to join us for stories of octocopters, Africa and hot air balloon piloting.

Guest Dean Goedde talks to us about doing international business, working fulltime on AttoPilot and dives into some technical goodies.

Guest Bill Premerlani talks about the origins, present state and future directions of the UAV dev board.

Guest Ryan Beall talks about an IMU-based autopilot he built at the Naval Academy.

The altitude record attempt was for an autonomously controlled electrically powered UAV weighing less than 5kg, FAI Category U.2a Group 2.

Even more IMU talk followed by a discussion of our favorite posts from the week.

IMU mentioned: http://www.sensordynamics.cc/cms/cms.php?pageId=73

Episode 0: "Houston, we've got a problem"" Show Notes Photos of the NASA Ames field trip from several people: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-ames-excursion ArduPilot + OSD: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1102975 ArduPilot IMU boards: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9372 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9373 Magnetometer tilt-compensation algorithms: http://www.magneticsensors.com/datasheets/sae.pdf